What percentage of the economy is “essential business?”, according to most shelter-in-place laws?
Ballpark: 40m, out of 160m total.
I made a spreadsheet, using the CA definition but numbers for all of the US. It’s not perfect- some industries I couldn’t find at all (communications is the biggest blank space), the divisions used by the statistics don’t map perfectly to the divisions used by the CA definitions, most numbers are from 2018, etc. But it’s a start.
Ballpark: 40m, out of 160m total.
I made a spreadsheet, using the CA definition but numbers for all of the US. It’s not perfect- some industries I couldn’t find at all (communications is the biggest blank space), the divisions used by the statistics don’t map perfectly to the divisions used by the CA definitions, most numbers are from 2018, etc. But it’s a start.