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Column Name: manest Span: 1860-1997 Units: Establishments Format: Integer  The count of establishments represents manufacturing establishments which reported a product value of $500 or more for the year ending June 1, 1860. Source (where directly obtained): Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Census Office. Eighth Decennial Census of the United States, 1860. Manufactures of the United States in 1860. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1865.  The count of establishments includes every mill, factory, or shop in which any class of mechanical industry was carried on and which reported a product value of $500 or more for the year. Source (where directly obtained): Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: -U.S. Census Office. Ninth Census of the United States, 1870. Volume III, The Statistics of the Wealth and Industry of the United States. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872. -U.S. Census Office. Tenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1880. Volume II, Report on the Manufactures of the United States at the Tenth Census. General Statistics. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883.  The count of establishments includes every establishment of manufacturing and mechanical industry (except mining and quarrying) reporting a product value of $500 or more during the census year ending May 31, 1890. When two or more establishments owned by the same corporation, firm, or individual were located in the same county or city and engaged in the same industry, they were tabulated and counted as one establishment.
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source:  The number of establishments represents those manufacturing establishments, including the hand trades, reporting a product value of $500 or more for the year. An establishment usually signifies a single plant or factory. Occasionally, however, when a single plant houses different lines of activity, assigned to different industry classifications, the plant is counted as two or more establishments. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Census Office. Twelfth Decennial Census of the United States, 1900. Volume VIII, Manufactures, Part I. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902.
 The number of establishments represents those manufacturing establishments conducted under the factory system (which excludes neighborhood, household, and hand industries) reporting a product value of $500 or more for the year. Figures relate to the calendar year 1919 (or the business year which corresponded most nearly to that calendar year), and cover a year's operations, except for establishments which began or discontinued business during the year. An establishment usually signifies a single plant or factory. Occasionally, however, when a single plant houses different lines of activity, assigned to different industry classifications, the plant is counted as two or more establishments. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1920. Volume VIII, Manufactures: 1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923.  The number of establishments represents those manufacturing establishments, excluding neighborhood, household, and hand industries, reporting a product value of $5,000 or more for the 1929 calendar year (or the fiscal or business year, for some establishments, ending within the period from April 1, 1929, to March 31, 1930). An establishment usually signifies a single plant or factory. Occasionally, however, when a single plant houses different lines of activity, assigned to different industry classifications, the plant is counted as two or more establishments. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1930. Manufactures: 1929, Volume III. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933. The number of manufacturing establishments represents those establishments reporting a product value of $5,000 or more for the year. An establishment usually signifies a single plant or factory. Occasionally, however, when a single plant houses different lines of activity, assigned to different industry classifications, the plant is counted as two or more establishments. In general, the count of establishments was confined to manufacturing industries proper; data were collected for a few industries, however, which are not manufacturing in the sense in which the term is generally understood, the most important example being printing and publishing. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1940. Manufactures: 1939, Volume III. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1942. The number of manufacturing establishments includes all establishments employing one or more persons at any time during the year. An establishment is generally defined as a single physical location where the mechanical or chemical transformation of inorganic or organic substances into new products is performed. These activities are usually carried out in plants, factories, or mills, which characteristically use power-driven machines and materials-handling equipment.
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