APPENDIX 9.-DATA ON 200 LARGEST MANUFACTURING

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The following tables showing data for the 200 largest manufacturing enterprises are results of unpublished census compilations made available through the courtesy of the Bureau of the Census.

Special tabulations were prepared from the Census of Manufactures data for 1935 combining the activities of all establishments operating under a common ownership regardless of the industry in which the establishments were classified. This tabulation made possible the

1 Appendix 9 was prepared by Grace W. Knott.

selection of the largest multiple-establishment enterprises, to which were added the largest single-establishment enterprises. From this combined list of large enterprises, ranked according to the value of products, data for the 200 largest manufacturing enterprises were tabulated.

In order to avoid the possibility of disclosure for individual enterprises in the figures presented, a more stringent procedure has been followed than is usually employed by the Census Bureau. Ordinarily in the

TABLE I.-Leading 200 manufacturing enterprises (based on value of products), grouped by fives and ranked according to value added by

1 No data for employees of central administrative offices are included. 2 This is an average of the numbers reported for the several months of the year. In calculating it, equal weight must be given to full-time and part-time wage earners (not reported separately to the Census Bureau) and for this reason it exceeds the number that would have been required to perform the work done in the industries if all wage earners had been continuously employed throughout the year. The quotient obtained by dividing the amount of wages by the average number of wage earners cannot, therefore, be accepted as representing the average wages received by full-time wage earners.

Profits and losses cannot be calculated from the Census figures because no data are collected for certain expense items, such as interest, rent, depreciation,t axes, insurance, and advertising. 4 The aggregates for cost of materials and value of products include large amounts of duplication due to the use of the products of some industries as materials by others. For the United States as a whole, this duplication amounts to about one-third of the gross value of products. Wage earners and salaried employees.

Source: Census of Manufactures 1935-Special tabulations.