National Manufacturing Day: October 3, 2025
National Manufacturing Day: October 3, 2025
National Manufacturing Week: September 29-October 3, 2025
During Manufacturing Week, the Census Bureau celebrates the nation’s manufacturing sector in the lead up to Manufacturing Day — an annual event launched by the Manufacturing Institute in 2011. Held on the first Friday in October, Manufacturing Day showcases modern manufacturing and promotes manufacturing careers.
Explore a wide range of Census Bureau manufacturing statistics and data resources, including America Counts stories, interactive tools and data visualizations.
Join us for a week of rich content and data that inform communities, businesses and policymakers. Follow us on social media as we spotlight manufacturing throughout the week.
Key Stats
From the Census Bureau’s Manufacturing Week homepage:
Manufacturing-Related Economic Statistics
Source: Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, & Orders (M3). The M3 survey provides broad-based, monthly statistical data on economic conditions in the domestic manufacturing sector. It measures current industrial activity and provides an indication of future business trends.
Source: Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (MTIS). The MTIS provides broad and timely measures of combined changes in domestic retail trade, wholesale trade and manufacturers' activities.
Source: Quarterly Financial Report (QFR). The QFR program collects and publishes quarterly aggregate statistics on the financial results and position of U.S. corporations. The Census Bureau provides Historical QFR Database Tables (1947 to present).
Source: Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). The QWI is a set of 32 economic indicators, including employment, job creation and destruction, wages, hires and other measures of employment flows.
Source: American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates. The ACS provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Manufacturing statistics include the number of people working in the industry by occupation and median earnings.
Source: Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES). Note: The Annual Survey of Manufactures and Annual Capital Expenditures Survey transitioned to the AIES, which began data collection in early 2024.
Source: Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS). The BDS provides annual measures of business dynamics (such as job creation and firm startups) for the economy overall, aggregated by establishment and firm characteristics.
Source: County Business Patterns (CBP). CBP is an annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry.
Source: Annual Business Survey (ABS). The ABS combines results from survey respondents and administrative records to produce data on business ownership.
From International Trade, the official source for U.S. export and import statistics and regulations governing the reporting of all export shipments from the United States.
News and Updates on Manufacturing
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