SEPT. 27, 2021 — The U.S. Census Bureau today begins a weeklong celebration of the manufacturing sector’s importance and vast economic contribution to the nation. The week is designed to coincide with Manufacturing Day, which has been held the first Friday in October since 2011.

The Census Bureau has created a Manufacturing Week homepage with valuable manufacturing statistics and data products, and will be posting historical facts about manufacturing on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Facebook all week.

The website features a wide range of resources, including:

• Manufacturing Continues to Be Among Top Five Largest Employment Sectors
• U.S. Small Businesses Suffer Supply Chain Disruptions
• Video Game Consoles: From Manufacturing to Players’ Hands
• The Dough in Doughnuts
• Not All Industries Experienced Declines During the Pandemic
• Think Online Retail Is the Biggest E-Commerce Sector? Think Again
• How Much Do Businesses Spend on Innovation to Stay Competitive?
• The 2019 Annual Survey of Manufactures Includes State-Level Data
• Manufacturing Faces a Labor Shortage as Workforce Ages

View the Manufacturing Week page for more manufacturing visualizations.

• 2021 Manufacturing Day: A Snapshot of Monthly Manufacturing Statistics in the United States
• 2021 Manufacturing Day: Quarterly Manufacturing Statistics in the United States
• Manufacturing Data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures
• Housing-Related Manufacturing in America 2018 and 2019

• Manufacturing Day Kickoff Event. This webinar is set to be held Sept. 30 at 2 p.m., ET.
• Manufacturing – The Changing Face of Manufacturing in the USA. A recording of this webinar, held Sept. 23, will be available during Manufacturing Week.

• On Manufacturing Day (Oct. 1), the Census Bureau will release updated manufacturing data, dating back to 1947, as part of its Historical Quarterly Financial Report Data.

Stats for Stories provides a one-stop shop for timely and relevant statistics and resources about observances. The manufacturing edition includes datasets from a variety of surveys, including the American Community Survey; Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders; Annual Survey of Manufactures; County Business Patterns; Annual Capital Expenditures Survey; International Trade; Quarterly Financial Report, Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales; and multiple series from the economic census, including the Economic Census of Island Areas.

Conducted every five years, the economic census is the Census Bureau’s most comprehensive source of information on American businesses and the economy and has been collecting statistics on the nation’s manufacturing sector since 1810. The Census Bureau also publishes manufacturing statistics from other sources, including the American Community Survey, Annual Survey of Manufactures, multiple economic indicators, the Annual Business Survey, as well as experimental data products such as the Small Business Pulse Survey and Business Formation Statistics. The Franchise Statistics, Comparison Statistics and Bridge Statistics reports, released in August and September, were the last of the reports from the 2017 Economic Census. Data collection for the 2022 Economic Census is set to begin next year. Collectively, the data paint a picture of the state of this key economic sector.

A complete list and more details on manufacturing data from the Census Bureau are available at <www.census.gov/mfgday>.

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