Table 9: Manufacturing industries: Multifactor productivity trends, 1949-99

Table 9.  Manufacturing industries: Multifactor productivity trends, 1949-99 


Average annual growth rates

                            1948-   1948-   1973-   1979-   1990-   1995-   1998-
Industry                    1999    1973    1979    1990    1995    1999    1999

Manufacturing                1.2     1.5    -0.6     1.1     1.2     2.5     2.9

Nondurable manufacturing     0.7     1.3    -0.5     0.3     0.4     0.5     0.3
Food and kindred products    0.5     0.7     0.1     0.4     0.7    -0.3     2.1
Tobacco manufactures         N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.
Textile mill products        2.3     2.3     3.3     2.1     1.7     2.1     5.8
Apparel & related products   0.9     0.7     1.9     0.6     0.5     1.6     1.8
Paper and allied products    0.7     1.6    -1.2     0.0     0.2     1.3     1.2

Printing and publishing     -0.2     0.5    -0.7    -0.9    -1.2    -0.8    -0.8
Chemicals & allied products  1.1     2.5    -2.6     0.7    -0.2     0.9    -0.9
Petroleum refining           0.4     0.8    -0.6    -0.1     0.3     0.8    -0.8
Rubber & misc. 
  plastic products           0.8     1.0    -1.9     1.4     1.2     1.4     0.5
Leather & leather products   N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.    N.A.
                                                             
Durable manufacturing        1.5     1.5    -0.6     1.8     2.0     4.0     4.9
Lumber and wood products     1.1     1.7     0.5     2.5    -1.7    -1.2     0.0
Furniture and fixtures       0.6     0.6     0.4     0.6     0.7     1.2     0.7
Stone, clay, glass 
  & concrete products        0.8     1.1    -1.3     1.4     0.7     1.0     0.7
Primary metals industries    0.2     0.4    -2.3     0.3     0.7     2.0     3.8
Fabricated metals products   0.3     0.5    -1.0     0.5     0.9    -0.1    -0.9

Industrial & 
  commercial machinery       1.9     0.7     0.1     3.2     3.1     6.9     7.8
Electronic & other 
  electrical equipment       3.0     2.1     1.0     3.1     5.8     8.1    12.5
Transportation equipment     0.8     1.5    -0.6     0.1     0.5     1.3     0.6
Instruments                  1.4     1.8     1.2     1.4     0.1     1.0     2.6
Miscellaneous manufacturing  0.9     1.5    -1.1     1.1    -0.3     0.7     1.9

N.A. - Multifactor productivity measures are not published because of the 
       small size of the industry and data limitations.  This industry is 
       included in the aggregate for total manufacturing.

Note:  Multifactor productivity measures by industry are not directly 
       comparable to measures for aggregate manufacturing because industry 
       measures exclude transactions only within the specific industry while 
       the aggregate manufacturing measures also exclude transactions 
       between all manufacturing industries.

Note: Data in table 9 have been corrected.  See box on page 1.
Table 9: Manufacturing industries: Multifactor productivity trends, 1949-99

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