U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Annual Survey of Manufactures: 1949 and 1950 Prepared under the Supervision of Maxwell R. Conklin, Chief Washington For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Charles Sawyer, Secretary HD 9724 .A22 11+1-50 A. Ross Eckler, Deputy Director Morris H. Hansen, Assistant Director for Statistical Standards Total Employment in Operating Manufacturing Establishments, Central Aministrative Offices and Auxiliary Units, by Major Industry Groups, Based on the Annual Survey of Manufactures and the Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance Program: 1950 and 1949. . Total Employment in Operating Manufacturing Establishments, Central Administrative Offices and Auxiliary Units, by States, Based on The General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments, by General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments, by Industry Groups and Selected Industries: 1950, 1949, and 1947. Selected Statistics for Selected Industries: 1950, 1949, and 1947. General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments, for the New England States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, 1949, and 1947 General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments, for the Middle Atlantic States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, 1949, General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments, for the East North Central States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments for the West North Central States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments for the South Atlantic States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, 1949, General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments for the East South Central States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments for the West South Central States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, Table 10. General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments for the Mountain States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, 1949, and 1947 Table 11. General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments for the Pacific States, by Major Industry Groups: 1950, 1949, and 1947. . . Value of Shipments, by Selected Classes of Products, for the United States: 1950, 1949, and 1947. . . Iron Castings Consumed by Metal Fabricating Establishments, by Selected Industry Groups and Industries: 1950, 1949, and 1947 . . . Carbon Steel Mill Shapes and Castings Consumed by Metal Fabricating Establishments, by Selected Industry Groups and Industries: 1950, Table 4. Alloy and Stainless Steel Mill Shapes and Castings Consumed by Metal Fabricating Establishments, by Selected Industry Groups and Industries: 1950, 1949, and 1947. . Table 5. Aluminum Mill Shapes and Castings Consumed by Metal Fabricating Establishments, by Selected Industry Groups and Industries: 1950, Copper and Copper-base Alloy Mill Shapes and Castings Consumed by Metal Fabricating Establishments, by Selected Industry Groups Expenditures for Plant and Equipment for Operating Manufacturing Establishments, for Industry Groups: 1950, 1949, and 1947 . . . . . Selected General Statistics for Operating Manufacturing Establishments, Classified as to Size by Number of Employees, for Major Industry APPENDIXES - Appendix A - Detailed Description of Sample Design. Appendix B Methods Used to Calculate the Standard errors of the Estimates Appendix C - Provisions of Law Relating to Manufactures Censuses and Surveys Appendix D - 1950 Annual Survey Report Form, Instructions and Punch Card. MAP United States Showing Geographic Divisions and States. . . 1. Introduction Outline GENERAL EXPLANATIONS 2. Establishments Covered in the Annual Surveys 3. Design and Selection of the Annual Survey Sample 4. Canvassing Methods Used in the Surveys 5. The Annual Survey Establishment Report Forms 6. Classification of Establishments Into Industries 7. Coordination of Census-BOASI Employment Data 8. Employment and Pay Roll Data Collected in the Annual Surveys 9. Material Costs, Inventories, and Shipments Data 10. Expenditures for New Plant and Equipment 11. Metals Consumed 12. Estimating Procedures Used in the 1949 and 1950 Annual Surveys 13. Qualifications of the Published Data 14. Disclosure of Data for Individual Companies 1. Introduction The final results of the annual survey of manufactures are shown in this publication for 1949 and 1950, the first 2 years for which it was conducted. Preliminary releases for 1949 were published in August 1951 and preliminary figures for 1950, in November 1951, a reduction in elapsed publication time of 9 months. The annual survey is an integral part of a program of industrial statistics which reached its present development following legislation that shifted the Census of Manufactures from a biennial to a quinquennial basis. There is general agreement that a complete and comprehensive census every 5 years, combined with annual intercensal plant surveys, current commodity surveys, and improved small area manufacturing employment data (developed jointly with the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance), constitute a more efficient means of satisfying business and government needs for industrial statistics than a biennial census program. At the present time these data furnish a background against which defense agencies can measure the impact of their mobilization efforts on all important segments of manufacturing. The annual survey, based on a representative sample sample of manufacturing establishments, carries forward yearly the general statistics of manufacturing activity (value added by manufacture, value of shipments, cost of materials, fuels and electric energy consumed, employment, manhours, pay rolls, inventories, and capital expenditures), which are covered in detail by the quinquennial census. In addition, it fills in important gaps in the Bureau's existing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports on selected manufactured prod mates of most of these general statistics for industry groups, important individual industries, geographic divisions and States, and for important cross-tabulations of major industry groups by division and by State. It also provides broad industrial and geographic totals for inventories, fuels, and expenditures for plant and equipment, and United States totals for selected product classes and metals consumed. In addition, comparable county-by-industry group employment figures have been developed jointly with the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance to meet the needs for small area manufacturing data in the "County Business Patterns" publication program. The 1949 Annual Survey was financed by funds specifically appropriated by the Congress for this purpose to the National Security Resources Board. Funds for the 1950 survey were provided in large part through the National Production Authority. Over a 10-year period, it is believed that the cost of the Census-annual survey program will be considerably less than that of a biennial census program. The savings possible under this program arise from several sources. In the first place,. much of the detail collected in a complete Census is eliminated from the annual survey and the questionnaire is restricted to measurement of only the most essential characteristics of manufacturing activity. Secondly, whereas the census covers all manufacturing plants (of which there were 240,000 in 1947), 1947), the annual survey reaches sample of only about 45,000 plants. Finally, through improvements in the quality of reported data which may be expected as a result of continuing contact with the larger manufacturing companies and many of the smaller ones, it appears likely that part of the cost of the annual surveys will be recovered indirectly by enabling some reduction to be made in the outlays for the quinquennial censuses. It should be noted, however, that a sample survey as large as this one presents some very difficult problems in coverage, collection, processing, tabulation, and controls. 2. Establishments Covered in the Annual Surveys a. Definition of Manufacturing Establishments: a Following previous census procedures, the annual survey is conducted on an establishment reporting basis. The term "establishment'' generally signifies a single plant or factory where manufacturing operations are performed and is not necessarily identical with the business unit or com |