The manufactures reports for 1929 comprise three volumes. Volume II (the first to be issued) is an assembly of the detailed reports for the 326 manufacturing, printing and publishing industries covered by the census. It incorporates the advance series of industry bulletins.

Although the number of tables for each industry vary they include, in general, statistics showing products by kind, quantity and value for the United States and by States; prime movers, motors, generators, and consumption of purchased electric energy, etc.; and wage earners by months and by States.

The industries shown in this report are arranged in 16 groups:

Food and Kindred Products, page 41
Textiles and Their Products, page 217
Forest Products, page 436
Paper and Allied Products, page 541
Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries, page 575
Chemicals and Allied Products, page 626
Products of Petroleum and Coal, page 747
Rubber Products, page 776
Leather and Its Manufactures, page 786
Stone, Clay, and Glass Products, page 824
Iron and Steel and Their Products, Not Including Machinery, page 906
Nonferrous Metals and Their Products, page 1,026
Machinery, Not Including Transportation Equipment, page 1,096
Transportation Equipment, Air, Land, and Water, page 1,189
Railroad Repair Shops, page 1,242
Miscellaneous Industries, page 1,252