The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) provided sample estimates of statistics for all manufacturing establishments with one or more paid employees.

• Was conducted annually, except for years ending in 2 and 7, at which time ASM statistics were included in the manufacturing sector of the Economic Census.
• The economic census manufacturing sector was the universe from which the ASM sample frame was selected and provided more detailed statistics.
• Provided statistics on employment, payroll, supplemental labor costs, cost of materials consumed, operating expenses, value of shipments, value added by manufacturing, detailed capital expenditures, fuels and electric energy used, and inventories.

Copies of the survey questions, instructions, and letters can be viewed by clicking on the links below.

(All files are in Adobe PDF format and are for informational purposes only)

Title 13, United States Code, Sections 131 and 182, authorizes this collection. Sections 224 and 225 require your response. The U.S. Census Bureau is required by Section 9 of the same law to keep your information confidential and use your responses only to produce statistics. The Census Bureau is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could identify your business, organization, or institution. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your data.