Food and agriculture / United States / regional cattle procurement markets
Beef meatpackingUse appears through report context
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Public source dossierPublic datasetU.S. Census Bureau
2017 Economic Census Concentration of Largest Firms
Economy-wide national firm concentration statistics by 2017 NAICS industry including revenue-based HHI and largest-firm concentration ratios.
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2/7 direct domains · 0 normalized indicators · 1 market · 2017-2026Encoded row volume · log scaleExact counts shown
Public source2017 Economic Census Concentration of Largest FirmsU.S. Census Bureau / 2 active routes / 2017-2026
- Record identitycensus-ecnsize-concentration-2017U.S. Census Bureau, 2020
- Source classPublic datasetAccessed Jul 18, 2026
- Encoded scope2 active routes1,937 direct / 0 indicator rows
- Permitted inferenceTrace + reproduceNo automatic endorsement or comparability
Evidence topology
Where this record enters the observatory
Definitions0Not encodedObservations0Not encodedParticipants0Not encodedPolicy records0Not encodedReports2public reportsIndustries1,935NAICS rowsGeographies0Not encodedIndicators0Not encoded
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This source currently contributes through policy chronology, report citation, or industry evidence rather than market definitions, observations, or participant shares.
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This source is not currently attached to an enforcement, inquiry, remedy, settlement, or agency-report event in the public chronology.
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Public reports citing this record
Published report
Jul 19, 2026
Beef Meatpacking Buyer Power
Read reportA source-backed briefing on national beef-packer buyer concentration, the related Census slaughtering-industry screen, and the market boundaries neither metric can establish.
USDA ERS historical national CR4 for steer and heifer purchases, paired with separately bounded 2017 and 2022 Economic Census revenue concentration rows for NAICS 311611.
Published report
Jul 19, 2026
The U.S. Competition Landscape
Read reportA national briefing that aligns defined-market signals, industry structure, state and local geographic concentration screens, merger activity, and enforcement records without collapsing their different scopes.
2022 and 2017 U.S. Economic Census industry concentration tables, USDA ERS historical meatpacking CR4, KFF 2024 state individual-market HHI, FDIC 2025 statewide and county Summary of Deposits screens, the FY2025 FTC/DOJ HSR report, and source-backed market and enforcement records.
Industry observatory
NAICS concentration evidence
- Vintage
- 2017
- All rows
- 1,935
- Detailed industries
- 943
- Published HHI
- 711
- Strict history matches
- 1,640
| NAICS | Detailed industry | HHI | CR4 | Firms | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 521110 | Monetary authorities - central bank | 3,389.8 | 80.4% | 12 | Open |
| 212291 | Uranium-radium-vanadium ore mining | 3,198.2 | Not published | 0 | Open |
| 483112 | Deep sea passenger transportation | 3,159.7 | 96.9% | 57 | Open |
| 336415 | Guided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing | 3,118.4 | 96% | 16 | Open |
| 532111 | Passenger car rental | 3,072.5 | 89.5% | 1,921 | Open |
| 212299 | All other metal ore mining | 2,776.1 | Not published | 0 | Open |
Five-year deltas are published only for rows whose NAICS code and industry label are identical in the 2017 and 2022 Census tables. This strict match is a conservative screening rule, not an official NAICS concordance or evidence of causation. Revenue changes are nominal and are not adjusted for inflation.
Citation custody
The record behind the rows
U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 Economic Census, EC1700SIZECONCEN: Selected Sectors - Concentration of Largest Firms for the United States, released November 2020.
Economy-wide national firm concentration statistics by 2017 NAICS industry including revenue-based HHI and largest-firm concentration ratios.
Canonical source citation
U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 Economic Census, EC1700SIZECONCEN: Selected Sectors - Concentration of Largest Firms for the United States, released November 2020. Available at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2017/sector00/EC1700SIZECONCEN.zip. Accessed Jul 18, 2026. Antitrust Radar source record census-ecnsize-concentration-2017: https://antitrustradar.org/sources/census-ecnsize-concentration-2017
- Publisher
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Access date
- Jul 18, 2026
- License note
- Public federal government dataset
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- No archive URL recorded
Source-scoped data packet
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Participants
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Official records
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Named edges
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Event windows
Bounded pre, event-year, and post HHI context
2
Reports
Published observatory work citing this source
1,935
Industry history
2017 rows in strict longitudinal screening
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