OCT. 1 , 2020— The U.S. Census Bureau today celebrates the importance of the manufacturing sector to the nation’s economy during the ninth annual observance of Manufacturing Day. The event, traditionally held the first Friday in October, has been set aside to recognize this sector’s vast economic contributions.

The Census Bureau has created a Manufacturing Day home page with valuable manufacturing statistics and data products and is posting historical facts about manufacturing on Twitter and Facebook.

The Manufacturing Day website features a host of helpful data and tools, including:

Infographics

• Manufacturing in America
• Manufacturing Data From the Annual Survey of Manufactures
• 2020 Manufacturing Day: A Snapshot of Monthly Manufacturing Statistics in the United States
• 2020 Manufacturing Day: Quarterly Manufacturing Statistics in the United States
• 2020 Manufacturing Day: International Trade
  
  

Manufacturing Data

• On Oct. 2, the Census Bureau will release updated manufacturing data, dating back to 1947, as part of the Historical Quarterly Financial Report Data.
  
  

Profile America’s Stats for Stories: Manufacturing Day

• Stats for Stories provides a one-stop shop for timely, relevant statistics and resources about observances. The manufacturing edition includes data sets from a variety of surveys, including the American Community Survey; Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders; Annual Survey of Manufactures; County Business Patterns; Annual Capital Expenditures Survey; International Trade; Quarterly Financial Report, Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales; and multiple series from the Economic Census, including the Economic Census of Island Areas.

Economic Census

The Economic Census, the Census Bureau’s most comprehensive source of information on American businesses and the economy, began collecting statistics on the manufacturing sector in 1810. In addition to the Economic Census, the Census Bureau publishes manufacturing statistics from a number of sources, including the American Community Survey, Annual Survey of Manufactures, multiple economic indicators, and the Annual Business Survey.

Collectively, the data paint a picture of the state of this key economic sector.

For a complete list and more details on the sources of manufacturing data from the Census Bureau, visit <www.census.gov/mfgday>.

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