Excerpt from Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders: 1961-1968 The monthly Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders survey (mb-1) provides monthly figures that are comparable to the annual totals published each year in the annual survey of manufactures. The annual survey of manufactures is a sample of approximately manufacturing establishments drawn from the 5-year census universe of about establishments. In the asm, each manufacturing establishment provides data on employment, payrolls, shipments, cost of materials, capital expenditures, and inventories as well as other selected items. The establishments do not provide information on unfilled orders or new orders. Since the annual survey of manufactures is establishment based, it provides data for each of the 425 manufacturing industries in the Standard Industrial Classification System (sic) and area data for industry groups. The monthly survey does not provide information at the complete sic industry detail because of the smaller size of the reporting panel and the fact that most companies cannot provide shipments, inventories, and orders data monthly for individualestablishments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.