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Manufacturing Sector Employs 16.7 Million,
Census Bureau Reports
The nation's manufacturers employed 16.7 million people in 2000,
virtually the same as 1999, according to tabulations released today
on the Internet by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.
The report, 2000 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Statistics for
Industry Groups and Industries [pdf], shows employment and payroll,
number of production workers and wages, cost of materials, value added by
manufacturers, value of shipments, new capital expenditures and other
measures of economic activity.
The transportation equipment subsector and the fabricated metal products
subsector were the largest manufacturing employers in the economy, with
1.8 million workers each. Other major employers were manufacturers of
computers and electronic products (1.6 million), food (1.5 million) and
machinery (1.4 million).
The data come from a sample of 52,000 manufacturing establishments
and are subject to sampling variability, as well as nonsampling error.
Sources of nonsampling error include errors of response, nonreporting and
coverage. Measures of sampling variability, presented as relative standard
errors, are shown in the tables.
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