SEPT. 29, 2023 — The U.S. Census Bureau next week will begin a series of events to recognize the manufacturing sector’s importance and vast contribution to the nation’s economy. The weeklong celebration will culminate on Manufacturing Day, observed annually (the first Friday in October since 2011) to showcase the benefits and 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 plans to post about the observance on our social media accounts throughout the week. The website features a wide range of resources, including:

• Manufacturing Faces Potential Labor Shortage Due to Skills Gap
• Powering the Economy One Chip at a Time
• A Toast to the Growing Number of U.S. Beer/Wine Manufacturers
• 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”

• Nonemployer Statistics by Industry: 2020
• U.S. Manufacturing Practices
• If the Shoe Fits
• 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. 

• Manufacturing – The Changing Face of Manufacturing in the USA (Sept. 23, 2021)
• AESDirect Walkthrough: Electronic Export Filing System (Oct. 20, 2022)
• Exploring Census Data: Construction (June 16, 2022)
• Celebrating U.S. Small Businesses in the Global Marketplace (May 26, 2022)
• Demonstration on Trade Data Tools: API, Schedule B Search and USA Trade Online (May 12, 2022)
• An Overview of the LEHD Program (June 16, 2021)
• Starting a Small Business (April 21, 2021)

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; Annual Business Survey; 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 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 began earlier this year. We plan to release the first data next March. 

In September, the Census Bureau launched a limited scope collection of its newest survey, the 2022 Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES). The AIES will provide key yearly measures of economic activity, including the only comprehensive national and subnational data on business revenues, employment, expenses and assets on an annual basis.

More information about the AIES is available in our 2022 Annual Integrated Economic Survey tip sheet.

A complete list and more details on Census Bureau manufacturing data are available at <www.census.gov/topics/business-economy/manufacturing.html>.

No news release associated with this announcement. Tip sheet only.