OCT. 3, 2022 —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 and culminate on Manufacturing Day, held annually the first Friday in October since 2011, to showcase the potential of modern manufacturing and spur interest in manufacturing careers.

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 throughout the week.

• More Women in Manufacturing Jobs in Every Age Group
• Manufacturing Pay, Job Prospects Increase with Industry “Credential”
• A House Tour by the Numbers
• Small Business Week 2022: How Small Businesses Impact the Economy
• E-commerce Sales Surged During the Pandemic
• Mom and Pop Businesses: Key Contributors to the U.S. Economy
• Increase in Number of U.S. Black-Owned Businesses From 2017 to 2019
• The Business of Manufacturing Snack Foods Before the “Big Game”
• U.S. Startups Create Jobs Higher Rates, Older Large Firms Employ Most Workers
• Census Bureau Serves Hearty Spread of Holiday Food Industry Statistics
• Small Business Pulse Survey Reveals Price Increases by Sector
• Manufacturing Remains One of the Top Five Largest Employment Sectors

• U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey
• Business Formation Statistics by State
• Global Market Finder: An Interactive Tool for U.S. Exporters
• E-commerce Activity Across Sectors
• Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Operations Visualizations
• Total Capital Expenditures for Selected Industry Sectors: 2011-2020
• Number of U.S. Breweries by Employment Size Ranges: 2017-2019

View the Manufacturing Week homepage for more manufacturing visualizations. 

• AESDirect Walkthrough: Electronic Export Filing System
• Exploring Census Data: Construction
• Celebrating U.S. Small Businesses in the Global Marketplace
• Demonstration on Trade Data Tools: API, Schedule B Search and USA Trade Online
• An Overview of the LEHD Program
• Starting a Small Business

• On Manufacturing Day (Oct. 7), 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; and experimental data products such as the Small Business Pulse Survey, Business Formation Statistics, and the new Business Trends and Outlook Survey. Data collection for the 2022 Economic Census is set to begin next year. Together 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/topics/business-economy/manufacturing.html>.

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