Publisher's Synopsis
This guide helps the reader to find profiles and top US company rankings for about 460 manufacturing industries, organized by 4-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.;"Manufacturing USA" synthesizes relevant data from the Census of Manufacturers, the Annual Survey of Manufacturers, the County of Business Patterns, the US, Industrial Outlook, and the Industrial-Occupational Matrix produced by the US Department of Labor.;Profiles provide general industry statistics; indices of change; selected ratios; product share; statistical analyses by states and regions; occupations employed by various industries; fuel and other resource consumption data; and more. There are also product, company name, occupations employed, and 4-digit SIC indexes.