U.S. County Manufacturing Industries, 1927

Spatial distribution of manufacturing industries across counties in 1927.

UnitCounty

Year1927

StructureCross-section

Industries16

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Overview

A county-level cross-section of the number of manufacturing establishments by industry in 1927, aggregated to the 16 main manufacturing industries.

A companion file reports state-level industry averages.

Funding: Economic History Association.

Sources

Market Data Handbook of the United States, Table 8, drawn from a special tabulation of the 1927 Census of Manufactures.

Files

File	Type	Size
`county_ind_shares_1927_icpsr.dta`	Stata	896.2 KB
`county_ind_shares_1927_icpsr.xlsx`	Excel	1.1 MB
`1927_state_ind_avg_icpsr.xlsx`	Excel	34 KB
`codebook.docx`	Codebook	22.6 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. County Manufacturing Industries, 1927. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207241V1

BibTeX — dataset

@misc{janas_county_industries_1927,
  author    = {Janas, Pawel},
  title     = {{U.S.} County Manufacturing Industries, 1927},
  publisher = {Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]},
  address   = {Ann Arbor, MI},
  year      = {2024},
  version   = {V1},
  doi       = {10.3886/E207241V1},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.3886/E207241V1}
}

Version history

Version	Released	DOI
V1 (current)	2024-07-01	10.3886/E207241V1