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California Employs Most in Manufacturing,
Census Bureau Reports
Nearly 2 million people were employed in manufacturing jobs in California
in 1998, more than in any other state, the Commerce Department's Census
Bureau reported today. Ohio and Texas followed, with about 1 million
people each employed in such jobs.
The Census Bureau report, 1998 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Geographic
Area Statistics, M98 (AS)-3, released on the Internet, provides data on
number of employees, production workers, value added by manufacture, cost
of materials, value of shipments and new capital expenditures for
manufacturing establishments in the nation and the states in 1997 and
1998. The data cover manufacturing industry groups such as food, apparel,
lumber, chemicals, computers and transportation equipment.
The 1998 Annual Survey of Manufactures marks the first time the survey
is published using the new North American Industry Classification System
(NAICS), which replaces the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
system used in the past. NAICS premiered in the 1997 Economic Census.
The data in the report come from a sample of 58,000 manufacturing
establishments and are subject to sampling variability, as well as
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 tables that appear as
part of the report.
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http://www.census.gov/prod/www/titles.html#mm.