SIC Industry Description

Industry: 7375—Information Retrieval Services
Establishments primarily engaged in providing on-line information retrieval services on a contract or fee basis. The information generally involves a range of subjects and is taken from other primary sources. Establishments primarily engaged in performing activities, such as credit reporting, direct mail advertising, stock quotation services, etc., and who also create data bases are classified according to their primary activity. Establishments primarily engaged in collecting data bases from primary sources and reformatting or editing them for distribution through information retrieval services are classified in Industry 7379.

Data base information retrieval servicesOn-line data base information retrieval services
Information retrieval services, on-lineRemote data base information retrieval services
Codes TitlesTotal Marketable US Businesses
7375Information Retrieval Services5,270
737500Information retrieval services3,218
73750000Information retrieval services3,218
737599Information retrieval services, nec2,052
73759901Data base information retrieval558
73759902On-line data base information retrieval1,394
73759903Remote data base information retrieval100