FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2003
Patricia Buscher CB03-19
Public Information Office
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16 Million Employed in Manufacturing in 2001
The nation's manufacturers employed 16 million people in 2001 and paid
them about $600 billion, according to statistics released today by the
Commerce Department's Census Bureau.
Census Bureau analyst Mendel Gayle said the transportation equipment and
fabricated-metal products subsectors were the largest employers in the
manufacturing sector. Both employed 1.7 million workers.
Other major employers included manufacturers of computers and electronic
products, at 1.6 million workers, and food producers, 1.5 million workers.
The Internet tables from the 2001 Annual Survey of Manufactures,
Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries [PDF] show employment and
payroll, number of production workers and wages, cost of materials, value
added, value of shipments, total capital expenditures and other measures of
economic activity for all manufacturing establishments for the years 1997
to 2001.
The findings are based on a sample of 52,000 manufacturing
establishments and are subject to sampling variability and 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.
available free from Adobe.
