Industry | Years before 1947 (includes census years up to and including 1977) | 1947-77 | 1978-92 | Years after 1992/2/ | |
Economic census years 1982, 1987, and 1992 | Noncensus years/1/ | ||||
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing: | |||||
Farms | USDA, Trends | USDA | USDA, NIPA | USDA, NIPA | USDA, NIPA |
Agricultural services, forestry, and fishing | USDA, Trends | P&E | P&E, NIPA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Mining | HS, EC (CMI and CM), NIPA | EC (CMI), ES, P&E, NIPA, Oil & Gas | EC (CMI), ES, NIPA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Construction | Boddy & Gort, HS | EC (CCI), ES, P&E, NIPA | EC (CCI), ES, NIPA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Manufacturing | Chawner, NIPA, CS, HS, EC (CM), Kuznets, Shaw | EC (CM), ASM, ES, P&E, NIPA | EC (CM), ES, NIPA | ASM, NIPA | ASM, ACES, NIPA |
Transportation and public utilities: | |||||
Transportation: | |||||
Railroad transportation | ICC, NIPA, Ulmer, TA, CS | ICC, NIPA, TA, P&E | P&E, NIPA, TA , ICC (1982) | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Local and interurban passenger transit | Ulmer, CS, TA, NIPA, ICC | ICC, TA, CS, P&E, NIPA | P&E, NIPA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Trucking and warehousing | NIPA, Ulmer, TA, ICC | ICC, EC (CWT), EC (CT)/3/, P&E | ICC (1982), P&E, EC (CT)/3/ | P&E, TA, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Water transportation | NIPA, HS, ICC | NIPA, ICC, P&E | P&E, NIPA, TA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA. P&E |
Transportation by air | NIPA, HS | NIPA, DOT, P&E | DOT, NIPA, P&E, TA | DOT, NIPA, P&E | DOT, ACES, NIPA |
Pipelines, except natural gas | ICC, NIPA, CS, HS | ICC, NIPA, P&E | NIPA, P&E | NIPA, P&E | ACES, NIPA |
Transportation services | ICC, NIPA, Ulmer, TA, CS | ICC, NIPA, TA, P&E | P&E, NIPA, TA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Communications: | |||||
Telephone and telegraph | NIPA, CS, USDA, Ulmer | NIPA, TA, CS, USDA, FCC, Crandall, P&E, CAR | FCC, NIPA, CAR, TA, Crandall, ACES, P&E, USDA | FCC, NIPA, CAR, TA, Crandall, ACES, P&E, USDA | ACES, NIPA, FCC, CAR, TA, P&E, USDA |
Radio and television | Boddy & Gort | P&E, TA, NIPA | P&E, TA, UC, NIPA | P&E, TA, UC, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Electric, gas, and sanitary services: | |||||
Electric services | Ulmer, NIPA, CS, USDA, DOE FS | DOE FS, NIPA, USDA, P&E | DOE FS, DOE EP, NIPA, USDA, UC | DOE FS, DOE EP, NIPA, USDA, UC | DOE FS, DOE EP, NIPA, USDA, UC, ACES |
Gas services | Ulmer, NIPA, CS, TA, UC | NIPA, CS, UC, TA, P&E | NIPA, P&E, TA | NIPA, P&E, TA | NIPA, ACES |
Sanitary services | Ulmer | P&E, DOE FS, TA | P&E, DOE FS, TA | P&E, DOE FS, TA, NIPA | ACES, DOE FS, TA, NIPA |
Wholesale trade | Boddy & Gort | EC (CWT)/4/, P&E, ES | EC (CWT)/4/, ES, TA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E, UC |
Merchant wholesale | EC (CWT)/4/, ES | EC (CWT)/4/, ES | |||
Nonmerchant wholesale | EC (CWT), ES | EC (CWT), ES, TA | |||
Retail trade | CS, HS | EC (CRT)/4/, P&E | EC (CRT)/4/ | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, UC |
Finance, insurance, and real estate: | |||||
Finance and insurance | SOI, HS | P&E, TA | P&E, TA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Real estate | SOI, HS, CS, UC, TA | P&E, TA, UC, NIPA, SOI | P&E, TA, NIPA, UC, EC(CCI) | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Services: | |||||
Hotel and other lodging places | SOI, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, NIPA | NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Personal services | SOI, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, UC | EC (CSI)/4/ | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Business services | SOI, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, TA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Auto repair, services, and parking | SOI, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, TA, NIPA | P&E, TA, NIPA | ACES, TA, NIPA, P&E |
Miscellaneous repair services | SOI, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, UC | EC (CSI)/4/ | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Motion pictures | SOI, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, UC | P&E, UC, NIPA | ACES, UC, NIPA |
Amusement and recreation services | SOI, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, UC | EC (CSI)/4/, UC | P&E, UC, NIPA | ACES, UC, NIPA |
Health services | SOI, TA | P&E, TA | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E, NIPA, TA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA, P&E |
Legal services | SOI, TA | P&E | EC (CSI)/4/, P&E | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Education services | NIPA, CS, SOI, USDE | NIPA, P&E, USDE | EC (CSI 1987, 1992)/4/, P&E, NIPA, USDE | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
Other services/5/ | SOI, NIPA, CS | P&E, NIPA | EC (CSI 1987, 1992)/4/, P&E, NIPA | P&E, NIPA | ACES, NIPA |
1. Used to interpolate between economic census year estimates .
2. Used to extrapolate forward from 1992.
3. Data are from the truck inventory and use survey taken as part of the Census of Transportation for years 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987; and for 1992 taken as part of the Census of Transportation, Communications, and Utilities.
4. Data are from the capital expenditures survey taken as part of the economic census for the years through 1982 and for 1987 and 1992 from the assets and expenditures survey taken as part of the economic census.
5. "Other" services consists of the following industries: Social services; museums; botanical, zoological gardens; membership organizations; engineering and management services; and services, not elsewhere classified.
NOTE.The source data provided in this table are those used to allocate estimates of private nonresidential investment to the various industries. For most economic census years, the distribution is based on the capital flow tables prepared by BEA as part of the benchmark input-output accounts.
ACES | U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually beginning in 1992). |
ASM | U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Annual Survey of Manufactures (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually). |
Boddy & Gort | Rayford Boddy and Michael Gort, "Capital Expenditures and Capital Stocks," Annals of Economic and Social Measurement 2/3 (1973); and "The Derivation of Investment Expenditures and Capital Stocks" (typewritten, 1968). |
CAR | Data from company annual reports. |
Chawner | Lowell J. Chawner, "Capital Expenditures for Manufacturing Plant and Equipment1915 to 1940," SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS 21 (March 1941): 9-15; "Capital Expenditures in Selected Manufacturing Industries," SURVEY 21 (December 1941): 19-26; and "Capital Expenditures in Selected Manufacturing Industries, Part II," SURVEY 22 (May 1942): 14-23. |
Crandall | Robert W. Crandall, After the Breakup: U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1991). |
CS | U.S. Department of Commerce, Business and Defense Services Administration, Construction Statistics 1915-64: A Supplement to Construction Review (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966). |
DOE EP | U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Annual, 2 vols. (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually). |
DOE FS | U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Financial Statistics of Selected Investor-Owned Electric Utilities (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually). |
DOT | U.S. Department of Transportation, Air Carrier Financial Statistics (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually). |
EC | U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Census of Construction Industries (CCI): 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992; Census of Manufactures (CM): 1947, 1958, 1963, 1967 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992; Census of Mineral Industries (CMI): 1954, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992; Census of Retail Trade (CRT): 1958, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992; Census of Service Industries (CSI): 1958, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992; Census of Transportation (CT): 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992; and Census of Wholesale Trade (CWT): 1958, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, quinquennially). |
ES | U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Enterprise Statistics: 1954, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, quinquennially). |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission, Statistics of Communications Common Carriers (Washington, DC: Federal Communications Commission, annually). |
HS | U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, 2 vols. (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975). |
ICC | Interstate Commerce Commission, Transport Statistics in the United States (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually). |
Kuznets | Simon Kuznets, Capital in the American Economy: Its Formation and Financing (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1961). |
NIPA | For 1929-94, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts of the United States, 1929-94, 2 vols. (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998); and for 1995-96, see SURVEY 77 (August 1997): 6-167. See the following tables: Current-dollar expenditures, tables 2.6, 5.6, 5.8, and 5.14 and chain-type quantity and price indexes, tables 7.5, 7.7, 7.8, and 7.13. |
Oil & Gas | U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Annual Survey of Oil and Gas (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually through 1982). |
P&E | U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Plant and Equipment Survey (unpublished annual data for 1947-93). |
Shaw | William H. Shaw, Value of Commodity Output Since 1869 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1947). |
SOI | U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income: Corporation Income Tax Returns; Statistics of Income: Partnership Income Tax Returns; and Statistics of Income: Nonfarm Proprietorship Returns (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, annually). |
TA | Trade association data (published and unpublished). |
Trends | Robert E. Gallman, "Commodity Output, 1839-99," and Marvin W. Towne and Wayne D. Rasmussen, "Farm Gross Product and Gross Investment in the Nineteenth Century," both in Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century, Studies in Income and Wealth, vol. 24 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1960). |
UC | Unpublished data from the Bureau of the Census. |
Ulmer | Melville J. Ulmer, Capital in Transportation, Communications, and Public Utilities: Its Formation and Financing (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press for National Bureau of Economic Research, 1960). |
USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Income Statistics; Statistical Report, Rural Telephone Borrowers; and Statistical Report, Rural Electric Borrowers (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, all annually). |
USDE | U.S. Department of Education data (unpublished). |