Census of Manufactures Series

collection: series

Investigator(s): Timothy F. Bresnahan, Daniel M.G. Raff, Chris Vickers, Nicolas Ziebarth, and other collaborators

Studies

5

Variables

1,141

Publications

10

About this Collection

The United States Census Bureau has conducted surveys of manufacturing activity since 1810 with fluctuating frequency. Between 1919 and 1939 the Census of Manufactures was conducted biennially. This series consists of data collections representing various industries in the Census of Manufactures for 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935, the only years for which original returns are available. The data within each industry include information on plant-level products made and materials used, operations, employment, wages, material costs, value of products, and other individual-plant information.

Studies

5 results

United States Census of Manufactures, 1929-1935

These data are sourced from transcriptions of the original establishment-level schedules from the United States Census of Manufactures taken in 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935. This dataset combines industries currently archived by ICPSR with new transcriptions. In total, twenty-five industries are included representing some 20 percent of manufacturing output. In addition to information transcribed verbatim from Census schedules, the dataset includes establishment identifiers constructed to link establishments across the censuses.

The twenty-five industries included are Agricultural Implements, Aviation, Beverages, Blast Furnaces, Bone Black, Cement, Cigars and cigarettes, Concrete, Glass, manufactured Ice, Ice cream, Linoleum, Macaroni, Malt, Matches, Motor Vehicles, Petroleum Refining, Planing-mill products, Radio, Rubber tires, Soap, Steel works, Cane Sugar, Refining Sugar.

United States Census of Manufactures, Sugar Refining Industry, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935

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 Sugar Refining 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 sugar refining operations, plants (e.g. name, location, etc.), products made, operation and working hours, employment, wages and salaries, and operating costs.

United States Census of Manufactures, Motor Vehicle Industry, 1929-1935

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 Motor Vehicle Industry have been coded to produce an electronic data set to provide the basis for microeconomic evidence for the study of the Great Depression. The data set 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 and quantity of products by type, and power used.