United States Census of Manufactures, 1929-1935, Cotton Goods Industry (ICPSR 35605)
Published: May 22, 2015
Principal Investigator(s):
Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania;
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University;
Changkeun Lee, University of Michigan;
Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35605.v2
Version V2
Summary
The United States Census Bureau has conducted surveys of manufacturing activity since 1810 with fluctuating frequency. Between 1919 and 1939 the Census of Manufactures (CM) was conducted biennially. This data collection consists of individual-plant data from the Census of Manufactures for 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935, the only years in this span for which original returns are available. The records of the Cotton Goods Industry have been coded to produce an electronic dataset to provide the basis for microeconomic evidence for the study of the Great Depression. The dataset contains observations on: basic information about the plants (e.g. name, location, owner, etc.), products made and materials used, operation and working hours, employment, wages and salaries, costs and amount of materials used, value of products and processing tax (1933 and 1935), machinery, and power used.
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Funding
National Science Foundation (SES9023021)
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INO11-00006)
Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage
Smallest Geographic Unit
Address
Time Period(s)
1929
1931
1933
1935
Date of Collection
1991-03-15 -- 1996-08-31
Data Collection Notes
This collection is an edited version the Textile Industry data from ICPSR Study #31761: Census of Manufactures, Motor Vehicle and Textile Industry Plants, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935 [United States]. Changes include editing erroneous and missing information as well as reorganizing the data into industry specific datasets.
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.)
For related information regarding the Census of Manufactures, please visit the United States Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Manufactures Web site and the United States Census Bureau's Economic Census Web site.
Sample
No sampling was applied. The universe of reporting firms is included in the dataset.
Universe
United States cotton goods producers, 1929-1935, with revenues over $50,000.
Unit(s) of Observation
Cotton Goods Manufacturing Plant or Establishment
Data Source
United States Census Bureau, census of Manufactures, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935.
census/enumeration data
Mode of Data Collection
mail questionnaire
Original Release Date
2015-05-14
Version Date
2015-05-22
Version History
2015-05-22 ICPSR Codebook updated.
2015-05-14 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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.
Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
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