Layout of mandat_naics2 file (sas version and csv format)

 

Aug 1, 2012

 

Description of Supplementary Files for “An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade”

by

Thomas J. Holmes (University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and NBER)

and

John J. Stevens (Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System)

 

Note: The statistics reported in this file are all derived from public Census data

 

Description of File:

These files contain industry level variables constructed with publicly available information, for the 473 NAICS manufacturing industries for 1997.

 

 

Variable

Description

NAICS

6 digit NAICS

sal97

Census 1997 sales revenue (published value)

est97

Census 1997 establishment count (published value)

emp97

Census 1997 employment (published value)

naicstext

NAICS description

prodsal97

Census 1997 published product revenue for this NAICS product

emphat_lm97

Estimate of employment for industry, obtained by using the cell counts from the location of manufacturing for the 1997 Census,

empcbp06

Industry employment from 2006 County Business Patterns (CBP)

estcbp06

Industry plant counts from 2006 County Business Patterns (CBP)

emphatcbp06

Employment estimate for industry, if you the cell counts by detailed size class and take average employment by size class to construct an estimate.

emp_asm06

2006 employment for Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)

sal_asm06

2006 industry sales from ASM

prodsal_asm06

2006 product sales from ASM

impWorld97

1997 imports from all locations.  This is custom value of imports for consumption, obtained from United States International Trade Commission web site.  (Note in the few cases where the ITC data is at the 5-digit level rather than the 6-digit level, the 5-digit imports across 6-digit NAICS in proportion to the domestic 6-digit shipments relative to the 5-digit level.

impWorld06

Same as above for 2006

impWorld07

Same as above for 2007

impChina97

Same as above for 1997 and from China

impChina07

Same as above for 2007 and from China

expWorld97

exports to world, 1997

expWorld07

exports to world, 2007

China_shr97

China share of imports for 1997

China_shr07

China share of imports for 2007

naics_itc

naics

naicstext_itc

naics from ITC (International Trade Commission).  Note that a few have “x” in the 6th position and this means the data from the ITC is at the 5-digit level.  As discussed above, in this case, the import data is allocated across the 6-digit industries for the given 5-digit.

empcbp07

employment for industry from CBP 2007

estcbp07

plants counts for industry from CBP 2007

flag_empcbp07

a flag if the industry total for empcbp07 uses the cell counts to produce an estimate (because the Census is not disclosing the industry total)

sal07

Sales revenue for industry from 2007 Economic Census

emp07

Employment for industry from 2007 Economic Census

est07

Establishment Counts from 2007 Economic Census

prodsal07

Product shipments for this 6-digit NAICS product from 2007 Census

naicsindex

Number for 1 to 473, indexing the NAICS industries as sorted by NAICS.