These data are sourced from transcriptions of the original establishment-level schedules from the United States Census of Manufactures taken in 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935. Combines industries currently archived by ICPSR with new transcriptions. In total, 25 industries are included representing some 20 percent of manufacturing output. In addition to information transcribed verbatim from Census schedules, the dataset includes establishment identifiers constructed to link establishments across the censuses. The 25 industries included are Agricultural Implements, Aviation, Beverages, Blast Furnaces, Bone Black, Cement, Cigars and cigarettes, Concrete, Glass, manufactured Ice, Ice cream, Linoleum, Macaroni, Malt, Matches, Motor Vehicles, Petroleum Refining, Planing-mill products, Radio, Rubber tires, Soap, Steel works, Cane Sugar, Refining Sugar.
