EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EST, MARCH 23, 1998 (MONDAY) Public Information Office CB98-44 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-4067 (TDD) e-mail: PIO@census.gov Julius Smith 301-457-4741 Manufacturing Workers Nearly 19 Million in 1996, Census Bureau Reports The nation's manufacturing sector employed almost 19 million people in 1996, according to tabulations released today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. This represented no significant change from 1995. The report, 1996 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries, M96(AS)-1, will be available after the release time in print and on the Internet at http://www.census.gov/prod/www/titles.html#mm. This report shows employment and payroll, number of production workers and wages, cost of materials, value added by manufacture, new capital expenditures and other measures for all manufacturing establishments. The industrial machinery and equipment industry was the largest manufacturing employer in the economy, with 2 million workers. Other major employers include the food and kindred products, printing and publishing, fabricated metals and electronic and electric equipment industries. Data in the report and Internet tables come from a sample of 58,000 manufacturing establishments and are subject to sampling as well as nonsampling variability. Sources of nonsampling variability include errors of response, nonreporting and coverage. Measures of sampling variability, presented as relative standard errors, are shown in the publication tables.-X-Editor's Note: The Public Information Office now has a media-access server for embargoed news releases and data sets. It is available to accredited media representatives only. To gain access, please contact us for a username and password. The media-access server's Internet address is http://www.census.gov/dcmd/www/embargo/embargo.html. We would appreciate any comments you may have about the site. The Census Bureau pre-eminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. In over 100 surveys annually and 20 censuses a decade, evolving from the first census in 1790, the Census Bureau provides official information about America's people, businesses, industries, and institutions.
