U.S. City Manufacturing, 1904–1939

City-level manufacturing output and employment, about every five years.

UnitCity-year

Years1904–1939

Frequency~5 years

Cities429 (1904) – 834 (1939)

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Overview

A city-level panel of variables from the Census of Manufactures, 1904–1939, at roughly five-year intervals.

Funding: Economic History Association.

Sources

U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Manufactures, city tables.

Files

File	Type	Size
`city_manu_04_39_icpsr.dta`	Stata	828.8 KB
`city_manu_04_39_icpsr.xlsx`	Excel	713.1 KB
`codebook.docx`	Codebook	23.3 KB

All files are in the openICPSR project, version V1.

Variables

Variable names, labels and units are documented in codebook.docx, distributed with the data on openICPSR.

Citation

Please cite the openICPSR project:

openICPSR citation

Janas, Pawel. U.S. City Manufacturing, 1904 - 1939. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207243V1

BibTeX — dataset

@misc{janas_city_manufacturing,
  author    = {Janas, Pawel},
  title     = {{U.S.} City Manufacturing, 1904--1939},
  publisher = {Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]},
  address   = {Ann Arbor, MI},
  year      = {2024},
  version   = {V1},
  doi       = {10.3886/E207243V1},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.3886/E207243V1}
}

Version history

Version	Released	DOI
V1 (current)	2024-07-01	10.3886/E207243V1