USA Manufacturing Employed 16 Million In 2001.
January 5, 2003
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 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.
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