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Annual Survey of Manufacturers ANNUAL SURVEY OF MANUFACTURES (ASM)
PURPOSE
The purpose of the ASM is to provide key intercensal measures of manufacturing activity, products, and location for the public and private sectors.
COVERAGE
Manufacturing companies with one or more paid employees.
CONTENT
The ASM provides statistics on employment, payroll, worker hours, payroll supplements, cost of materials, value added by manufacturing, capital expenditures, inventories, and energy consumption. It also provides estimates of value of shipments for over 1,800 classes of manufactured products.
FREQUENCY
The ASM is conducted annually, except for years ending in "2" and "7", at which time ASM data are included in the manufacturing sector of the Economic Census.
METHODS
The Annual Survey of Manufactures includes approximately 55,000 establishments selected from the census universe of 350,000 manufacturing establishments. Some 25,000 large establishments are selected with certainty, and some 30,000 other establishments are selected with probability proportional to a composite measure of establishment size. The survey is updated from two sources; Internal Revenue Service administrative records are used to include new single-unit manufacturers, and the Company Organization Survey identifies new establishments of multi-unit forms.
PRODUCTS
Most data are available from the Internet and on CD-ROM. The principal publications are:
1.Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries: displays statistics at the 6, 4, and 3-digit NAICS levels and for total manufacturing.
2.Value of Product Shipments: displays statistics by 78-digit product class.
3.Geographic Area Statistics: shows
data at the state total and state by selected 3-digit sub-sector industry levels.
Targeted release dates are 12-18 months from the end of the reference period.
USERS
Bureau of Labor Statistics uses ASM data to calculate annual productivity series, updating producer price indexes, and calculate weights when new components are added.
Federal Reserve Board uses ASM data to prepare the Index of Industrial Production.
Bureau of Economic Analysis uses ASM data to prepare annual updates of the GNP and GNP weight deflators, the annual input-output (I/O) tables, and to the private inventories, producers equipment and software components (PES) of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
International Trade Administration designs and evaluates the export development program, evaluates and forecasts future industrial activity.
The Census Bureau benchmarks current data on manufacturing shipments and inventories.
State and local agencies use ASM data for economic policymaking and forecasting.
RELATED PROGRAMS
Economic Census
Manufacturers' Shipments
to Federal Agencies
Manufacturing Energy
Consumption Survey
Survey of Plant Capacity
Utilization
Monthly M3 Survey
Current Industrial Reports
(Industrial Products)
Manufacturing Technology
Surveys
Longitudinal Research
Database
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Manufacturing
Annual Survey of Manufactures
Last revised: July 27, 2006
