CENSUS OF MANUFACTURES
                          LOCATION OF MANUFACTURING PLANTS

                                      Abstract

=>CITATION

Census of Manufactures on CD-ROM, 1992:  Location of Manufacturing Plants/
prepared by the Bureau of the Census.  Washington:  The Bureau [producer and
distributor], 1997.

=>TYPE OF FILE

Summary statistics

=>UNIVERSE DESCRIPTION

The universe of these files is establishments with one or more paid
employees primarily engaged in manufacturing.  Both operating and auxiliary
establishments are included.  Manufacturing is defined as the mechanical or
chemical transformation of substances or materials into new products.

=>SUBJECT-MATTER DESCRIPTION

These files present frequency counts of the number of establishments by
employment-size by 2- and 4-digit SIC by geographic area.  They are similar in
concept to Table 9 in the Geographic Area Series reports, which shows
corresponding counts for 2-digit SIC groups for counties. The 4-digit SIC
detail in these files provide data available nowhere else.

=>GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

Data are provided for the U.S., states, counties, and places.

=>SOFTWARE ACCESS

The data from these files are accessable only through the EXTRACT software;
the GO92 software does not access these files.

=>RELEASE SCHEDULE

The data from the Location of Manufacturing Plants publication are to be
released in their entirety on CD-ROM 1i.

=>RELATED DATA FILES

1992 Census of Manufactures, Industry Series.  Includes national level
statistics on establishments by employment-size by 4-digit SIC.  Aggregate
employment, shipments, value added and other measures are shown for each
size class, which may be used in calculating averages per establishment.
Such averages may be used in creating synthetic estimates of values at the
county or place level where actual data are not provided in the Geographic
Area Series.

Census of Manufactures, 1987 and 1982:  Location of Manufacturing Plants
for Counties.  Included on the same CD-ROM but not documented.  Format is
generally the same as for 1992 data.

=>FILE CHARACTERISTICS

File Structure:  dBASE III+

Each file has index and label files that can be linked to them (for SIC
titles and area names).

=> MC92L2  2-digit SICs for the U.S., States, Counties, and Places

1.  File sequence:  U.S. records, followed by records for each state, county,
    and place.  States are sequenced alphabetically within the U.S., counties
    appear in alphabetic sequence within the state, and places sequenced
    alphabetically within the county.  Within each geographic area, SIC's
    appear in numeric sequence.

2.  Available indexes:
    MC92L2GS:  By state, county, place, and SIC
    MC92L2KS:  By SIC, geotype, state, place, and county

3.  Linkable label files:
    SICKEY92  (SIC titles)
    GEOREF92  (geographic area names)
    EC92MISC  (types of geographies)

=> MC92L4  4-digit SICs for the U.S., States, Counties, and Places

1.  File sequence:  U.S. records, followed by records for each state, county,
    and place.  States are sequenced alphabetically within the U.S., counties
    appear in alphabetic sequence within the state, and places sequenced
    alphabetically within the county.  Within each geographic area, SIC's
    appear in numeric sequence.

2.  Available indexes:
    MC92L4GS:  By state, county, place, and SIC
    MC92L4KS:  By SIC, geotype, state, place, and county

3.  Linkable label files:
    SICKEY92  (SIC titles)
    GEOREF92  (geographic area names)
    EC92MISC  (types of geographies)