FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2003
Patricia Buscher CB03-07
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Trucks, Minivans and Sport-Utility Vehicles
Top Manufacturers' Shipments in 2001
Light trucks, including minivans and sport-utility vehicles, worth $116
billion, constituted the top product class among manufacturers' shipments
in 2001, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau reported today.
Following, in order, were: manufacturers' shipments of gasoline, at $99
billion; automobiles, $85 billion; and integrated microcircuits, $47 billion.
The 2001 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Value of Product Shipments,[PDF 731KB]
released on the Internet, shows data for 1,500 manufactured product
classes, ranging from airplanes, breakfast cereals, and chocolate and
cocoa products to X-ray machines and zippers for the years 1997 to 2001.
The data are based on a sample of 52,000 manufacturing establishments
and are subject to sampling variability and nonsampling error. Sources of
nonsampling error include errors of response, nonreporting and coverage.
Measures of sampling variability, presented as relative standard errors,
are shown in the tables.
available free from Adobe.
