ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

This dataset contains the 1963 census statistics by company employment size classes for the 2- and 4-digit census manufacturing industries, Data is also included for "all industries" under the 1-digit code "1". The data is often aggregated to avoid revealing confidential firm information.

Each record is uniquely associated with a particular size class in a particular industry. Records are sorted according to the following minor sequence:

1. census SIC

2. size class code

The sort is in ascending sequence. For each industry there are 8 records --one for each of 7 size classes, plus an additional record for the industry totals. There are 8 records per industry and 446 industries resulting in 3568 records.

The data were obtained from the U.S. Bureau of the census. Census of Manufactures: 1963 Establishment Statistics by Company Employment Size.