Explanation of Terms

=> Number of establishments and companies.

A separate report was required for each manufacturing establishment (plant)
with one employee or more. An establishment is defined as a single physical
location where manufacturing is performed.  A company, on the other hand,
is defined as a business organization consisting of one establishment or
more under common ownership or control.

If the company operated at different physical locations, even if the
individual locations were producing the same line of goods, a separate
report was requested for each location. If the company operated in two or
more distinct lines of manufacturing at the same location, a separate
report was requested for each activity.

An establishment not in operation for any portion of the year was requested
to return the report form with the proper notation in the "Operational
Status" section of the form. In addition, the establishment was requested
to report data on any employees, capital expenditures, inventories, or
shipments from inventories during the year.

In this report, data are shown for establishments in operation at any time
during the year. A comparison with the number of establishments in
operation at the end of the year will be provided in the Introduction of
the General Summary subject report.

=> Employment and related items.

The report forms requested separate information on production workers for a
specific payroll period within each quarter of the year and on other
employees as of the payroll period which included the 12th of March.

=>  All employees.

This item includes all full-time and part-time employees on the payrolls of
operating manu- facturing establishments during any part of the pay period
which included the 12th of the months specified on the report form.
Included are all persons on paid sick leave, paid holidays, and paid
vacations during these pay periods. Officers of corporations are included
as employees; proprietors and partners of unincorporated firms are
excluded. The "all employees" number is the average number of production
workers plus the number of other employees in mid-March. The number of
production workers is the average for the payroll periods including the
12th of March, May, August, and November.

=>  Production workers.

This item includes workers (up through the line-supervisor level) engaged
in fabricating, processing, assembling, inspecting, receiving, storing,
handling, packing, warehousing, shipping (but not delivering), maintenance,
repair, janitorial and guard services, product development, auxiliary
production for plant's own use (e.g., power plant), recordkeeping, and
other services closely associated with these production operations at the
establishment covered by the report.  Employees above the working-
supervisor level are excluded from this item.

=>  All other employees.

This item covers nonproduction employees of the manufacturing establishment
including those engaged in factory supervision above the line-supervisor
level. It includes sales (including driver salespersons), sales delivery
(highway truckdrivers and their helpers), advertising, credit, collection,
installation and servicing of own products, clerical and routine office
function, executive, purchasing, financing, legal, personnel (including
cafeteria, medical, etc.), professional, and technical employees. Also
included are employees on the payroll of the manufacturing establishment
engaged in the construction of major additions or alterations to the plant
and utilized as a separate work force.

In addition to reports sent to operating manufacturing establishments,
information on employment during the payroll period which included March 12
and annual payrolls also was requested of auxiliary units (e.g.,
administrative offices, warehouses, and research and development
laboratories) of multiestablishment companies. However, these figures are
not included in the totals for individual industries shown in this report,
but are included in a separate category.