NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database

60+ years of data on detailed manufacturing industries

Source Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis

This database is a joint effort between the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and U.S. Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies (CES), containing annual industry-level data from 1958-2018 on output, employment, payroll and other input costs, investment, capital stocks, TFP, and various industry-specific price indexes. Because of changes in industry definitions over the years, the database is provided in three versions: one with 459 four-digit 1987 SIC industries, another with 473 six-digit 1997 NAICS industries, and a third with 364 six-digit 2012 NAICS industries.

Source:

Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis

Page last updated:

2021-03-17

Data & Supporting:

Updated Data 1958-2018 - SIC and NAICS versions

LICENSE

You are free to use the data for any purpose, free of charge, as long as you provide attribution and citation. You will not redistribute the data without permission. You may publish a copy of the data to meet journal requirements, as long as these conditions are made explicit as part of the package (for instance, by copying these terms into a LICENSE.txt file). Contact us for permission for any other redistribution; we will consider requests for free and commercial redistribution.

CITATION

Becker, Randy A., Wayne B. Gray and Jordan Marvakov. (2021). “NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database (1958-2018, version 2021a).” National Bureau of Economic Research. https://www.nber.org/research/data/nber-ces-manufacturing-industry-database, accessed <date>.

NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database (1958-2018)

2012 NAICS version: Stata SAS Excel CSV

1997 NAICS version: Stata SAS Excel CSV

1987 SIC version: Stata SAS Excel CSV

Documentation

Variable description and summary statistics: nberces_5818_summary_stats

Updated documentation: nberces_5818_technical_notes

Previous documentation (1958-2011 version): nberces_5818_technical_notes

Original documentation (1958-1991 dataset): NBER Technical Working Paper 205

Concordances

1997 NAICS - 2012 NAICS: Stata SAS Excel CSV Documentation

1987 SIC - 1997 NAICS: Stata SAS Excel CSV Documentation

1972 SIC - 1987 SIC: Stata SAS Excel CSV Documentation

Industry Listings

2012 NAICS Industry Names: Excel Text Documentation

1997 NAICS Industry Names: Excel Text

1987 SIC Industry Names: Excel Text Documentation

1972 SIC Industry Names: Excel Text

Contact information

Please forward all inquiries to: Wayne Gray, Clark University and NBER, wgray@clarku.edu or Randy Becker, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, randy.a.becker@census.gov