No. 1168. MANUFACTURERS' SALES AND RETAIL VALUE OF HOME APPLIANCES: 1950 TO 1966-Continued Source: Merchandising Week, January, 1967. Published by Billboard Publishing Co., New York, N.Y. No. 1169. MACHINERY (EXCEPT ELECTRICAL)-Value of ShipMENTS: 1947 TO 1965 [In millions of dollars. Prior to 1960, excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Figures for 1950 through 1960, and 1964, based on sample and subject to sampling variation; see Technical Note, p. 737] NA Not available. S Withheld because the estimate did not meet publication standards. 1 Includes parts and attachments. 2 Not comparable with data for earlier years. Includes parts and attachments (except cases and cabinets, and sewing machine needles). Excludes tractor-shovel loaders. Includes parts and attachments. Prior to 1963 parts and attachments for garden tractors were excluded. Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Annual Survey of Manufactures, U.S. Census of Manufactures and Current Industrial Reports. No. 1170. AIR-CONDITIOning and Refrigeration EQUIPMENT SHIPMENTS: 1950 TO 1965 [Value in thousands of dollars. Prior to 1960, excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Represents manufacturers' billing prices for units actually billed and shipped] NA Not available. X Not applicable. 1 Excludes units for ammonia refrigerants and, prior to 1964, household refrigerators. No. 1171. MACHINE TOOLS (METAL CUtting and METAL FORMING)-SHIPMENTS, [Value in millions of dollars. 1955, excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Includes light type machine tools, particularly in drilling machines, lathes, grinding and polishing machines, and milling machines. Excludes machine tools specifically designed for home workshops, model makers, garages, and service shops] NA Not available. 1 Included with "All other metal cutting machine tools." 2 Included with "Metal container making machines." Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Current Industrial Reports, Series M35W. No. 1172. SELECTED FARM MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT SHIPMENTS: 1947 to 1965 [In millions of dollars. Prior to 1960, excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Excludes tractors] Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Current Industrial Reports, Series M35A. No. 1173. TRACTORS-Domestic Shipments and ExpoRTS, BY TYPE: 1950 To 1965 [Value in thousands of dollars. Prior to 1960, excludes Alaska and Hawaii] NA Not available. S Does not meet publication standards. 1 Exports included with domestic shipments. * Prior to 1960, includes tractors produced as integral units of tractor-shovel loaders. Beginning 1960, tractorshovel loaders are shown separately. 3 Includes motor tillers. Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Current Industrial Reports, Series M35A, M35D, and M35S. FIG. XLIX. NATIONAL INCOME ORIGINATING IN DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRIES: 1951 Source: Chart prepared by Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Data from Office of Business Economics. FIG. L. RETAIL STORE SALES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS: 1966 Distribution and Services This section presents statistics relating to retail, wholesale, and service trades. Data shown for the distribution trades, classified by kind of business, and for the various categories of services (personal, business, repair, amusement, hotel, etc.) cover sales or receipts, establishments, employees, payrolls, proprietors, and other items. Also included are several tables on advertising expenditures. The principal sources of these data are the reports of the Census of Business and of annual and monthly surveys conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Data on retail sales, wholesale inventories and sales, consumer expenditures for services, etc. appear in the monthly Survey of Current Business, issued by the Office of Business Economics. Financial data for tax-filing and securities-listed corporations engaged in retail, wholesale, or service trades, and for sole proprietorships and partnerships similarly engaged, appear in the annual Statistics of Income, published by the Internal Revenue Service, and are also available from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Federal Trade Commission, in the course of its investigations, collects operating statistics on firms and chains in various kinds of business. Censuses and current surveys.—Censuses of business have been taken at intervals since 1929. The 1954 census was the first taken under present legislation, which provides for a quinquennial Census of Business. The latest census covers the year 1963. Current sample surveys conducted by the Bureau of the Census cover various aspects of the retail, wholesale, and service trades. Estimates of weekly sales in retail stores are shown for the United States, by kind of business, in the Bureau's Weekly Retail Sales Report. Its Monthly Retail Trade Report contains monthly estimates of sales and end-of-month accounts receivable of all retail stores and of retail organizations operating 11 or more stores, United States, by kind of business. Also included are monthly retail sales data for Census regions and divisions, 15 large States, and 20 large standard metropolitan statistical areas. Annual figures on sales, sales-stock ratios, and year-end inventories and accounts receivable data, classified by kind of business, are presented in the Annual Retail Trade Report. Statistics from the Bureau's wholesale trade survey, conducted monthly, include merchant wholesalers' sales and inventories and stock-sales ratios by kind of business, United States, as well as sales and inventory trends by kind of business and by geographic divisions. Monthly sales estimates are also shown by geographic divisions for the summary groups-durable goods trades, nondurable goods trades, and all trades combined. These data, based on reports submitted by a sample of firms representing merchant wholesalers in all kinds of business, appear in the Monthly Wholesale Trade Report. The monthly Selected Services Receipts Report, first issued in November 1966, provides monthly estimates of receipts for six major kinds of business groups for the United States as a whole. The monthly retail, wholesale, and service trades data are adjusted by the Bureau of the Census for seasonal variations and, in the case of sales, also for trading day differences. These data are also published in the Survey of Current Business. The Bureau of the Census issues a quarterly report on green coffee inventories in the United States as well as total coffee roastings and roastings for soluble use. The Bureau's Canned Food Report, issued five times a year, provides canner and distributor stocks of various canned foods as well as canners' data on pack and shipments of these items. Estimates obtained from the annual and monthly surveys are based on sample data and are not expected to agree with the results that would be obtained from a complete census of all establishments. Measures of the sampling variability, shown in the source reports, exclude biases which might arise from differences of response or from nonreporting. |