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Kentucky Report First in State Series on Mining
Sector from Census Bureau
The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released the first in a
series of state reports on the economy's mining sector from the 1997
Economic Census.
The report, 1997 Economic Census, Geographic Area Series, Mining:
Kentucky, was released on the Internet. The remaining 50 reports will
be released over the next few weeks.
According to the report, Kentucky's mining sector employed about 22,000
workers in 1997 and had a payroll of $832.5 million. The coal mining
industries were the state's largest mining employer, with 17,513 workers
(78 percent of the sector's total), followed by support activities for
mining, with 1,954 workers (9 percent). Stone mining industries were
third, with 1,596 workers (7 percent).
The report shows 1997 state-level data on number of establishments,
establishment size, employment, hours worked, payroll, shipments, value
added, costs of supplies, capital expenditures, inventories and type of
mine.
Statistics in the reports are prepared from data compiled from census
questionnaires or administrative records from other federal agencies and
therefore contain no sampling error. They are, however, subject to
nonsampling errors from various sources, such as the inability to identify
all cases in the actual universe; classification errors; differences in
the interpretation of questions; errors in recording or coding the data
obtained; and estimation of missing or misreported data. Steps were taken
in all phases of collection, processing and tabulation of data to minimize
the effects of nonsampling errors.
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