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           California Leads the Nation in Manufacturing Jobs, 
                       Census Bureau Reports

  Nearly 2 million people were employed in manufacturing jobs in
California in 1999, more than any other state, the Commerce Department's
Census Bureau reported today. Ohio and Texas followed, with about 1
million manufacturing jobs each.

  The Census Bureau report, 1999 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Geographic
Area Statistics, released on the Internet, provides data on number of
employees, production workers, value added by manufacturers, cost of
materials, value of shipments and new capital expenditures for
manufacturing establishments in the nation and the states from 1997 to
1999. The data cover manufacturing industry groups such as food, apparel,
lumber, chemicals, computers and transportation equipment.

  The findings are based on a sample of 58,000 manufacturing
establishments and are subject to sampling variability and nonsampling
errors. 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.