The files described below exclude establishments of firms with no paid employees. These "nonemployers" typically self-employed individuals or partnerships operating businesses that they have not chosen to incorporate, are reported separately in Nonemployer Statistics. The contribution of nonemployers, relatively small for this sector, may be examined at www.census.gov/nonemployerimpact.
The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) consists of manufacturing establishment statistics from the 2006 ASM. Four data files are issued from this survey. Each of the following ASM data files provide sample estimates of statistics on all manufacturing establishments with one or more paid employees, or manufacturing establishments that are known to employ workers through a third party, such as a professional employment organization.
This file presents manufacturing establishments statistics for industry groups and industries from the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM). This ASM file presents 2006 and 2005 data at the three-through six-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) based levels. The 2005 data are from the 2005 ASM and include revisions made to the data since its initial release. This data file includes such statistics as number of establishments, employment, payroll, value added by manufacture, cost of materials consumed, detailed capital expenditures, supplemental labor costs, fuels and electric energy used, inventories by stage of fabrication, value of shipments, detailed miscellaneous receipts, and interplant transfers.
For the Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries, the ASM uses 322 NAICS-based industry groupings that represent all 473 industries within the manufacturing sector. These groupings correspond to two or more individual six-digit NAICS industries within that five-digit NAICS Classification.
These data files present similar statistics at the "all manufacturing" level for the United States, each state, and the District of Columbia. The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) Statistics for all Manufacturing by State file presents 2006 and 2005 data at the four-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) level for employment, payroll, value added by manufacture, cost of materials consumed, value of shipments, and total capital expenditures. Those four-digit NAICS industries with fewer than 950 employees are excluded from these data. The Supplemental Statistics for US and States data file presents detailed capital expenditures, supplemental labor costs, fuels and electric energy used, and inventories by stage of fabrication at the US and state levels.
Data for this sector are also included in the 2002 Economic Census - Manufacturing and reports with multisector coverage, including Nonemployer Statistics, Comparative Statistics, Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS, and the Survey of Business Owners reports.
All dollar values presented are expressed in current dollars; i.e., 2006 data are expressed in 2006 dollars. Consequently, when making comparisons with prior years, users of the data should consider the changes in prices that have occurred.
All dollar values are shown in thousands of dollars.
A notable change for 2006 is that employment-related data (employment, payroll, hours worked, and benefits) relate only to employees whose payroll was reported on the IRS Form 941 filing for that manufacturing establishment. Other temporary workers and workers whoses payroll was reported under a different company's Employer Identification Number were reported elsewhere on the form. These "purchased temporary and leased workers" will not be released for the 2006 ASM. In 2002, data for these types of employees constituted between 1 and 1 1/2% of the total for these employment-related fields. Comparisons of 2006 data and data for earlier years for these employment-related fields should be used with caution.
The 2006 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) and prior years ASM present data based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). While there were revisions to selected industries for the 2002 Economic Census, this sector was not affected by those revisions. However for the historical data, the adoption of NAICS in the 1997 Economic Census ? Manufacturing has had a major impact on the comparability of current and historic data. Approximately half of the industries in the manufacturing sector of NAICS do not have comparable industries in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system that was used in the past.
While most of the change affecting the manufacturing sector was change within the sector, some industries left manufacturing and others came into manufacturing. Prominent among those that left manufacturing are logging and portions of publishing. Prominent among the industries that came into the manufacturing sector are bakeries, candy stores where candy is made on the premises, custom tailors, makers of custom draperies, and tire retreading. The net effect of the classification changes are such that if the 1997 value of shipments data for all manufacturers were tabulated on an SIC basis, it would be approximately 3 percent higher.
Another change resulting from the conversion to NAICS is that data for auxiliaries and central administrative offices (CAOs) associated with manufacturers are not presented with the manufacturing data.
It should also be noted that while the U.S. Census Bureau published "new capital expenditures" in the past, starting with the 1997 Economic Census - Manufacturing, it began publishing "total capital expenditures". The historic data presented in this report have been adjusted to be consistent with the new policy.
For 2003 and 2004, several additional data fields were added that did not exist in prior years ASM. The additional data added in 2003 includes a more detailed description of the value of shipments for industry groups and industries. Also beginning in 2003, a new industry grouping (NAICS five-digit) is published for certain industries.
All data compiled for this sector are subject to sampling errors as well as nonsampling errors. Nonsampling errors can be attributed to many sources: inability to identify all cases in the actual universe; definition and classification difficulties; differences in the interpretation of questions; errors in recording or coding the data obtained; and other errors of collection, response, coverage, processing, and estimation for missing or misreported data.
No direct measurement of these effects has been obtained except for estimation for missing or misreported data, as by the percentages shown in the tables. Precautionary steps were taken in all phases of the collection, processing, and tabulation of the data in an effort to minimize the effects of nonsampling errors. More information on the reliability of the data is included in Appendix C, Methodology.
In accordance with federal law governing census reports (Title 13 of the United States Code), no data are published that would disclose the operations of an individual establishment or company. However, the number of establishments in a specific industry or geographic area is not considered a disclosure; therefore, this information may be released even though other information is withheld. Techniques employed to limit disclosure are discussed at www.census.gov/epcd/ec02/disclosure.htm.
The disclosure analysis for statistics in the 2006 and 2005 data were performed at the field level, i.e., disclosure analysis was performed for each variable independent of other variables for that NAICS-based industry or product class. This differs from previous years' disclosure analysis, whereby disclosure suppressions were based upon the total value of shipments, with an independent disclosure analysis for capital expenditures. When data for a NAICS-based industry or product class are suppressed, these data still are included in higher-level totals.
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) in each of the 4 years between the Economic Censuses, which is collected for years ending in 2 and 7. The ASM is a probability-based sample of approximately 55,000 establishments and collects many of the same industry statistics (including employment, payroll, value of shipments, etc.) as the Economic Census - Manufacturing. However, there are selected statistics not included in the ASM. Among these are the number of companies and establishments, detailed product and materials data, and substate geographic data. In addition to the Economic Census - Manufacturing, the Census Bureau conducts the Current Industrial Reports (CIR) program. The CIR program publishes selected detailed product statistics for selected manufacturing industries at the U.S. level annually and, in some cases, monthly and/or quarterly. The Census Bureau also conducts the monthly Manufacturers Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Program, which publishes detailed statistics for manufacturing industries at the U.S. level.
In addition, the County Business Patterns (CBP) program offers annual statistics on the number of establishments, employment, and payroll classified by industry within each county, and Statistics of U.S. Businesses provides annual statistics classified by the employment size of the enterprise, further classified by industry for the United States, and by broader categories for states and metropolitan areas.
Questions about these data may be directed to the U.S. Census Bureau, Manufacturing & Construction Division, Information Services Center, 301-763-4673 or https://ask.census.gov
The following abbreviations and symbols are used with these data:
A Standard error of 100 percent or more
D Withheld to avoid disclosing data of individual companies; data are included in higher level totals
N Not available or not comparable
S Withheld because estimates did not meet publication standards
X Not applicable
r Revised
nsk Not specified by kind
- Represents zero (page image/print only)