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| Employers | Nonemployers | Compare to '97 | States | Products, Size, etc. | ||
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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Value of shipments
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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31-33 | Manufacturing | 350,828 | 3,916,136,712 | 576,170,541 | 14,699,536 | |
| 337 | Furniture & related product mfg | 22,523 | 75,964,713 | 17,400,405 | 595,915 | ||
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3371 | Household & institutional furniture & kitchen cabinet mfg | 17,081 | 44,793,376 | 10,511,206 | 387,264 | |
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3372 | Office furniture (including fixtures) mfg | 4,341 | 23,241,554 | 5,519,670 | 163,246 | |
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3379 | Other furniture related product mfg | 1,101 | 7,929,783 | 1,369,529 | 45,405 | |
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| 31-33 | Manufacturing | 641,208 | 3,929,538,352 | 290,380 | 45.3 | 13,401,640 | 0.3 | 350,828 | 3,916,136,712 | |
| 337 | Furniture & related product mfg | 39,838 | 76,725,183 | 17,315 | 43.5 | 760,470 | 1.0 | 22,523 | 75,964,713 | |
Industries in the Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing subsector make furniture and related articles, such as mattresses, window blinds, cabinets, and fixtures. The processes used in the manufacture of furniture include the cutting, bending, molding, laminating, and assembly of such materials as wood, metal, glass, plastics, and rattan. However, the production process for furniture is not solely bending metal, cutting and shaping wood, or extruding and molding plastics. Design and fashion trends play an important part in the production of furniture. The integrated design of the article for both esthetic and functional qualities is also a major part of the process of manufacturing furniture. Design services may be performed by the furniture establishment's work force or may be purchased from industrial designers.
Furniture may be made of any material, but the most common ones used in North America are metal and wood. Furniture manufacturing establishments may specialize in making articles primarily from one material. Some of the equipment required to make a wooden table, for example, is different from that used to make a metal one. However, furniture is usually made from several materials. A wooden table might have metal brackets, and a wooden chair a fabric or plastics seat. Therefore, in NAICS, furniture initially is classified based on the type of furniture (application for which it is designed) rather than the material used. For example, an upholstered sofa is treated as household furniture, although it may also be used in hotels or offices.
When classifying furniture according to the component material from which it is made, furniture made from more than one material is classified based on the material used in the frame, or if there is no frame, the predominant component material. Upholstered household furniture (excluding kitchen and dining room chairs with upholstered seats) is classified without regard to the frame material. Kitchen or dining room chairs with upholstered seats are classified according to the frame material.
Furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be shipped assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown). The manufacture of furniture parts and frames is included in this subsector.
Some of the processes used in furniture manufacturing are similar to processes that are used in other segments of manufacturing. For example, cutting and assembly occurs in the production of wood trusses that are classified in Subsector 321, Wood Product Manufacturing. However, the multiple processes that distinguish wood furniture manufacturing from wood product manufacturing warrant inclusion of wooden furniture manufacturing in the Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing subsector. Metal furniture manufacturing uses techniques that are also employed in the manufacturing of roll-formed products classified in Subsector 332, Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing. The molding process for plastics furniture is similar to the molding of other plastics products. However, plastics furniture producing establishments tend to specialize in furniture.
NAICS attempts to keep furniture manufacturing together, but there are two notable exceptions: seating for transportation equipment and laboratory and hospital furniture. These exceptions are related to that fact that some of the aspects of the production process for these products, primarily the design, are highly integrated with that of other manufactured goods, namely motor vehicles and health equipment.
NAICS
337, Furniture and related product manufacturing,
is close, but not quite comparable between 2002 and 1997.
See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.
For comparisons with data before 1997, see the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.
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1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Value of shipments ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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| 337 | Furniture & related product mfg | 2002 | 22,414 | 75,117,165 | 17,260,279 | 589,845 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 20,738 | 64,299,098 | 14,986,222 | 603,668 | ||||||||||
| % change | 8.1 | 16.8 | 15.2 | -2.3 | ||||||||||
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EC02-00C-BDG | Bridge Between NAICS 2002 and NAICS 1997 |
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Relationships between NAICS 1997 and NAICS 2002 for those industries redefined | US |
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EC02-00C-COMP | Comparative Statistics |
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2002 and 1997 data side by side on a comparable NAICS 1997 basis | US, states |
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EC02-31SG-1 | General Summary |
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Industry Statistics for Industry Groups & Industries | US |
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Industry Statistics by Subsectors for Selected States | US, states | |||
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Detailed Statistics by Subsector | US | |||
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Industry Statistics for Subsectors by Employment Size | US | |||
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Method of Inventory Valuation by Subsector | US | |||
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Inventories With LIFO Valulation by Subsector | US | |||
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Industry Statistics for Subsectors by Legal Form of Organization | US | |||
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EC02-31A | Geographic Area Series |
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Industry Statistics for the States, Metropolitan & Micropolitan Statistical Areas, Counties, and Places | States |
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SB02-00A | Survey of Business Owners |
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Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race | US |
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| Hypertext Tables | Title (with link to data) | Frequency | Contents | Geography |
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| Annual Capital Expenditures Survey | Annual | Capital expenditures for structures and equipment for companies with paid employees | US | |
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| Annual Survey of Manufactures: Geographic Area Series | Annual | General statistics for states (click AFF icon, select "ASM: GAS: Stats for All Mfg by State", then filter rows to this industry) | US, states |
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| Annual Survey of Manufactures: Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries | Annual | Detailed national statistics for the industry (click AFF icon, select "ASM: GS: Stats for Ind Groups & Ind", then filter rows to this industry) | US |
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| Annual Survey of Manufactures: Value of Product Shipments | Annual | National statistics for 7-digit product classes (click AFF icon, select "ASM: VPS: Val of Shps for Product Classes", then filter rows to desired products | US |
| County Business Patterns | Annual | Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment | US, states, metro areas, counties | |
| E-Commerce Statistics | Annual | Total sales and e-commerce sales, receipts or value of shipments | US | |
| Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders | Monthly | Value of shipments, inventories, new orders and unfilled orders | US | |
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| Nonemployer Statistics | Annual | Number of establishments and sales of firms with no paid employees | US, states, metro areas, counties |
| Quarterly Financial Report | Quarterly | Income, retained earnings, balance sheets, and related financial and operating ratios for the domestic operations of manufacturing corporations with assets over $250,000, and corporations in the mining and trade areas with over $50 million. | US | |
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| Statistics of U.S. Businesses | Annual | Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise | US, states, metro areas |
| U.S. International Trade Statistics | Monthly | Value of exports and imports by country [select 3-digit NAICS] | US |
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