United States Census of Manufactures, Motor Vehicle and Textile Industry Plants, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935 (ICPSR 31761)

Version Date: Oct 28, 2011

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Principal Investigator(s):
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University; Daniel M. G. Raff, Harvard University

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31761.v1

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Summary

This data collection consists of individual-plant data from the Census of Manufactures, conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census, for 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935. The purpose of this research was to analyze the economic behavior of the American industrial economy during the period 1929-1935, which spans the largest decline in demand ever to strike the manufacturing sector of the economy. This project created establishment panel data sets for the automotive, automotive parts, and textile industries.

Citation

Bresnahan, Timothy F., and Raff, Daniel M. G. United States Census of Manufactures, Motor Vehicle and Textile Industry Plants, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-10-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31761.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES-9023021), Harvard University. Harvard Business School. Division of Research

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1929, 1931, 1933, 1935

Date of Collection

1991-03-15 -- 1996-08-31

Data Collection Notes

  1. This document is part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and is distributed exactly as it arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the principal investigator if further information is desired.

  2. The zipped package contains SPSS data files used in the publications.

  3. In the 1929 "Census of Manufactures," 10 plants either did not respond or had census notations in the margins indicating that the figures were incorrect. Because of budgetary restrictions for census edits, there is the potential for more uncaught errors in the man-hours data. (For 1929, the census did not publish aggregate man-hours statistics.)

  4. Amy Bertin Candell and Boris Simkovich provided research assistance.

  5. Some of the variables from this dataset may be included in ICPSR 37114 - United States Census of Manufactures, 1929-1935.

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Sample

Industries were chosen systematically; but within industries, no sampling. The universe of reporting firms is included in the dataset.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual industrial plants

Data Source

Census of Manufactures, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2011-10-27

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Bresnahan, Timothy F., and Daniel M. G. Raff. United States Census of Manufactures, Motor Vehicle and Textile Industry Plants, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935. ICPSR31761-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-10-28. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31761.v1
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Notes

  • These data are flagged as replication datasets and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.