U.S. County Manufacturing, 1927–1937

County-level manufacturing output and employment, biennially.

UnitCounty-year

Years1927–1937

FrequencyBiennial

Census years6

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Overview

A county-level panel of variables from the Census of Manufactures for 1927, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935 and 1937.

Funding: Economic History Association.

Sources

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

Files

File	Type	Size
`county_manu_27_37_icpsr.dta`	Stata	909.3 KB
`county_manu_27_37_icpsr.xlsx`	Excel	971.5 KB
`codebook.docx`	Codebook	21.3 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.

Research

Janas, P. (2026). “Crises and Educational Attainment.” Journal of Economic History, 86(2), 501–536. Journal

Citation

Please cite the paper(s) listed above, if any, and the openICPSR project:

openICPSR citation

Janas, Pawel. U.S. County Manufacturing, 1927 - 1937. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207242V1

BibTeX — dataset

@misc{janas_county_manufacturing,
  author    = {Janas, Pawel},
  title     = {{U.S.} County Manufacturing, 1927--1937},
  publisher = {Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]},
  address   = {Ann Arbor, MI},
  year      = {2024},
  version   = {V1},
  doi       = {10.3886/E207242V1},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.3886/E207242V1}
}

BibTeX — paper

@article{janas2026a,
  author  = {Janas, P.},
  title   = {Crises and Educational Attainment},
  journal = {Journal of Economic History},
  volume  = {86},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {501--536},
  year    = {2026}
}

Version history

Version	Released	DOI
V1 (current)	2024-07-01	10.3886/E207242V1