Useful Stats: 2000 Value Added Manufacturing by State

In SSTI's second look at the 2000 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Geographic Area Statistics in as many weeks, SSTI highlights more of the report's key findings, including data on such fields as the value added by manufacturers, value of shipments, and average value added per employee.



The total value added by U.S. manufacturers increased by 9.69 percent between 1997 and 2000, according to the Census Bureau report. Idaho experienced the largest such increase (122.89 percent). Of the eight states that saw a decrease of value added by their manufacturers, New Mexico topped the list (24.56 percent). However, the District of Columbia experienced the largest decrease in the U.S. (42.74 percent).



D.C. also saw the largest drop in value of shipments between 1997 and 2000 (34.25 percent) and in the average value added per employee during the same period (44.14). Seven states saw a decrease in their value of shipments, and nine states experienced a decrease in the average value added per employee. In terms of an increase for each of the two categories — nationally, 9.99 percent for the former and 10.51 percent for the latter — Idaho held an edge over all states.

SSTI has prepared a table showing the state rankings for the percent change between 1997-2000 on the above fields at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/032902t.htm

2000 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Geographic Area Statistics is available at: 

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/m00as-3.pdf.