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TYPICAL TABLE FROM GEOGRAPHIC AREA SERIES, MIC87-A*
Table 2a. Mineral Establishment Statistics by Industry for the State: 1987 and 1982
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*Table contains 1982 and 1977 data for illustrative purposes only.

and exports of mineral products. See
Factfinder CFF 14 1) +or the Census
Catalog & Guide 1 * for information.
* The 1990 Census of Population (see
Factfinder CFF 7), especially the 1990
CP-2 series 1) *i ® © + entitled Social
and Economic Characteristics (1993),
provides data on selected characteris-
tics of persons who are employed in
mineral industries.
* Information on mineral industries appear
in digest form in several Bureau publi-
cations: The annual Statistical Abstract
of the United States (‘mi +, the
periodic County and City Data Book
(CCDB) *m @ Wi © + (latest, 1988),
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
(SMADB) (i * @ © + (latest 1986,
next 1990), Historical Statistics of the
United States from Colonial Times to
197010 (available commercially) me +,
and County Statistics File 3@ + (1988).
Census and survey statistics also appear
in trade journals, textbooks, and other
secondary sources.
Published reports from the censuses
of mineral industries, as well as the
other materials mentioned above, are
available for use in many of over 1,400
Government and Census depository
libraries across the country. (A list of
these libraries appears in the Bureau's
Census Catalog & Guide 1 * and also

is available separately on request +).
These are mainly college, university,
and large public libraries, but manye
smaller libraries also have Bureau pub-
lications. Recent reports are available
for reference and/or order at the U.S.
Department of Commerce's Interna-
tional Trade Administration district offices
and Census regional offices in princi-
pal cities.

All of the States, plus the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the
Virgin Islands have State data centers
that assist users with printed and com-
puterized data, and some States have
business and industry data centers
(specializing in economic statistics) as
well. There also are organizations reg-
istered with the Bureau's National Clear-
inghouse for Census Data Services
that offer tape printouts and other
services to their customers. (Lists of
centers and organizations on request. +)

DATA USER SERVICES

The Census Bureau assists its data
users in a number of ways. It publishes
an annual Census Catalog & Guide 1) *,
a monthly newsletter called Census and
You 1) (subscription*, single copies or
free sample copy +), a Monthly Product
Announcement 1 (free+) and a Daily

List 1 (subscription+), and a Guide to
the 1987 Economic Censuses and Related
Statistics CD (free +). A history of these
economic censuses is in preparation. The
agency also conducts workshops on the
availability and use of statistics and offers
exhibits and resources for the conven-
tions of interested national organizations. +

Census Awareness and Products Pro-
gram (CAPP) specialists at the Census
Bureau's 12 regional offices, staff mem-
bers of the International Trade Admin-
istration’s many district offices, and
resource personnel at Bureau headquar-
ters (telephone contact list on request +)
are equipped to answer users’ ques-
tions and assist in locating data.

FACTFINDER FOR THE NATION

General information about the Census
Bureau's various statistical programs is
contained in the publications in this Fact-
finder series entitled ‘History and Orga-
nization’ (CFF 4) and “Bureau Programs
and Products’’ (CFF 18) ( +.

Inquiries and suggestions about the
mineral industries statistics program and
other Bureau activities are invited. Write
or call:

Chief, Industry Division
Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC 20233
Telephone 301/763-5850



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STATISTICS ON MINERAL INDUSTRIES

INTRODUCTION

Mineral industries are those primarily
engaged in mining— extracting minerals
that occur naturally, whether in solid,
liquid, or gaseous form; preparing them
on-site as necessary; and exploring and
developing mineral properties.

The U.S. decennial census collected
the first statistics on mines and mining
in this country (as distinguished from
persons employed in this field) in 1840
and approximately every 10 years through
1940. After that, the ceiisuses of min-
eral industries were taken for 1954,
1958, and 1963. Since then, they have
been included among the economic cen-
suses covering years ending in ‘‘2"' and
"7" that Title 13 of the U.S. Code
authorizes. This law requires response
to the census inquiries and also assures
that all information companies provide
will be kept confidential and published
in summary form only. Thus, the Cen-
sus Bureau makes certain that no indi-
vidual firm's operations can be identi-
fied in its printed reports or public-use
electronic products, and Bureau employ-
ees are subject to heavy penalties for
violating the law's confidentiality provi-
sions.

The Census Bureau collects its data
directly from all large firms, usually by
mail, and abstracts statistics on employ-
ment, payroll, and receipts from Fed-
eral administrative records for the remain-
ing ones. This relieves about 11,000
small firms from filing census returns.

The unit of enumeration for the cen-
suses is the establishment, generally
defined as a single, physical location at

which one or more of the following
activities takes place: Metal mining,
coal mining, oil and gas extraction, and
mining and quarrying of nonmetallic min-
erals (except fuels) — the standard indus-
trial classification (SIC) major industry
groups 10, 12, 13, and 14. These four
groups are further broken down into 19
three-digit industry groups and 31 four-
digit industries. Beyond these codes,

the Census Bureau uses 76 five-digit
product classes and 180 seven-digit
product codes, which are comparable
to the “‘harmonized system’’ now used
to classify commodities in export and
import statistics.’ Thus, census data

‘See Numerical List of Manufactured and
Mineral Products, MC87-R-1 (1 * ma @© +
(1989); also 1987 Industry and Product Clas-
sification Manual (an extension of the SIC
Manuah (1989) available from National Tech-
nical Information Service).

can be classified to several levels of
detail, as illustrated here:

Major group 10 Metal mining
Industry group 101 Iron ores
Industry 1011 Iron ores
Product cla: 10111 Crude iron ores
Product 10111 21 Direct-shipping

crude iron ores

The Census Bureau also has a separate
set of six-digit codes to classify impor-
tant raw materials that mining establish-
ments consume. The data are published,
as appropriate, at various geographic
levels—United States, States, counties,
and offshore areas; and for water use,
U.S. Geological Survey water-resource
regions—and then by type of operation
(surface or underground mining and method
of ore concentration or preparation) and
size of establishment. No mineral indus-
try statistics are collected for Puerto Rico
or other outlying areas.

WHAT SUBJECTS ARE
COVERED IN THE CENSUS?

The earliest censuses tended to con-
centrate on production and its value,
employment, and capital invested, but
they now collect the following general
information:

Employment

Payroll

Hours worked

Quantity and value of products shipped
and supplies used

Cost of purchased machinery

Capital expenditures

Assets

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Depreciation, amortization, and depletion

Rents

Inventories

Quantity and cost of fuels produced and
consumed

Value added by mining

Mineral development and exploration costs

WHO USES MINERAL
INDUSTRIES STATISTICS?

The Federal Government uses these
statistics in calculating the gross national
product and the Nation's mineral wealth;
developing input and output models; plan-
ning and evaluating conservation, energy-
related, and other legislation; determin-
ing national minerals policies and research
and development projects; and adminis-
tering mineral industry programs.

State and local governments are inter-
ested in the economic and fiscal effects
of mining industries within their juris-
dictions. Nongovernment users in schools
of mines and research institutions, and
in manufacturing, finance, transporta-
tion, and other fields employ these data
in planning and forecasting.

Trade associations and mining firms
themselves use the tabulations to eval-
uate their own operations with respect
to their industry or geographic area.

HOW THE DATA ARE
PUBLISHED

Most of the mineral industries statis-
tics are issued in printed reports 1 that
are also available on microfiche  , com-
puter tape ® and CD-ROM © (computer
disk, read-only memory). Other Census
Bureau data, referred to under “Other
Aids and Sources of Data’’ below, are
published on diskettes ml or appear on
CENDATATM & , an online electronic serv-
ice available trom DIALOG, telephone

800/334-2564, and CompuServe, tele-
phone 800/848-8199. Two other sym-
bols, also used below, indicate where
printed and electronic materials may be
purchased:

* Superintendent of Documents
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
Telephone 202/783-3238
FAX 202/275-0019

+ Data User Services Division (DUSD)
Customer Services
Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC 20233
Telephone 301/763-4100
FAX 301/763-4794

Report Series

(The dates shown in parentheses reflect
scheduled release times for the reports in
each series.)

Selected data are issued in press releases
and preliminary reports:

© Preliminary Industry Series, MIC87-I-
10A(P) to-14E(P), M0 * (June-Oct. 1989).
Each of the 12 reports furnishes gen-
eral statistics for the United States for
a group of related industries, with infor-
mation by State insofar as there are
significant operations in the State. Pre-
liminary totals also are shown for quan-
tity and value of shipments for the
products primary to the industry. The
data are similar to those in the final
reports (below), but in less detail.

* Preliminary Summary Series, MIC87-

SUM-1(P), © * (Oct. 1989). This report
offers general statistics for the Nation
as a whole from the Preliminary Indus-
try Series for each of the four-digit SIC
industries. One table shows totals for
States without industry detail.

There are three series of final reports:

* Industry Series, MIC87-1-10A to -14E,
1 *m @© + (1989-1990). Each of
the 12 reports contains statistics for
the Nation as a whole for a group of
industries (e.g., oil and gas field explo-
ration services). There are final figures
for each of 31 four-digit SIC industries
on the number of establishments and
on the census topics (see list on page
1), and comparative statistics for ear-
lier years are included. Bridge tables
show 1987 data classified according
to both the old (pre-1987) and new
(1987) SIC’s. There are general statis-
tics by State and offshore area, type
of operation, and size of establish-
ment.

*® Geographic Area Series, MIC87-A-1
to-9, 1) *m @ © + (1989-1990). These
nine reports present data for the States
and for offshore areas grouped accord-
ing to the nine census geo-
graphic divisions on the number of
establishments, payroll, employment,
hours worked, value of shipments,
cost of supplies, capital expenditures,
assets, rental payments, inventories,
and value added by mining. Compara-
tive 1982 data on employment and
value added by mining are provided at
the State level. There are selected
data for each of the four-digit indus-
tries insofar as they have significant
operations in the State, and by type of
operation.

Two kinds of data are presented for
counties and for the offshore areas under
each State's jurisdiction: General statis-
tics for two- and three-digit industries
with 450 or more employees in the county
and the number of establishments by
employment-size class for two-digit major
industry groups with no size cutoff.
© Subject Series, MIC87-S-1 to -3, 0 *

TM + (1990).

TYPICAL TABLE FROM INDUSTRY SERIES, MIC87-1

Table 7a. Selected Supplies, Minerals Received for Preparation, and Purchased Machinery
Installed: 1987 and 1982

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1987 1982
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, Minerals of ores for 7
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TYPICAL TABLE FROM SUBJECT SERIES, MIC87-S*

Table 5. Total Energy Consumed by Major Group for Selected States and Offshore Areas: 1987

[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text. For explanation of torms, see append)

Energy produced and consumed
Ririeoe prisons ean See, Selected purchased fuels used

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*Table contains 1982 data from illustrative purposes only.

1. General Summary presents totals
for all 31 mineral industries nationally.
The report also contains information
that previously appeared in the 1982
census subject report on gross book
value of depreciable assets, capital
expenditures, retirements, depreciation,
and rental payments.

2. Fuels and Electric Energy Con-
sumed covers the quantity and cost of
purchased fuels and electric energy
used by mineral establishments to pro-
duce heat and power. Data are pre-
sented nationally by two-, three-, and
four-digit SIC and by State.

3. Water Use in Mineral Industries
offers data by industry on the intake,
recirculation, and discharge of water
during 1989, for establishments using
20 million gallons of water or more
annually. Data are shown by industry,
by State, and by water-resource region.

Data pertaining to mineral industries
may be found in other reports from the
1987 Economic Censuses, such as the
following:

* Census of Manufactures. The prelimi-

nary and final Industry Series (MC87-
1) and the final Geographic Area Series
(MC87-A) reports [see Factfinder No.
15] (1989-1990), cover oil and gas
refining and ore smelting. The final
reports appear in) * and @ © i +.
The Analytical Reports series (AR87-
3, Indexes of Production [1990}) 0
m= @O© + G& measures the change in
physical output of manufacturing and
mineral industries between 1982 and
1987. Price deflators used in convert-
ing the value of shipments to constant
dollars are presented at the four- and
five-digit SIC levels for the Nation and
the States. (This is the only report
from the economic censuses where
the topic of adjusting the data for
inflation is discussed.)

* Enterprise Statistics, series ES87, 1 *
TM@ + (1990-1991) has three reports
of interest:

1. Large Companies includes national-
level data by enterprise industrial clas-
sification (EIC) on the number of com-
panies, number of employees, annual
payroll, selected operating expenses,
and other economic statistics for firms
with 500 or more employees.

2. Auxiliary Establishments presents
data for multiestablishment firms on
number of auxiliaries and payroll, num-
ber of employees by type of service
performed, sales/receipts, end-of-year
inventories, rental payments, capital
expenditures, gross value of fixed assets,

selected operating expenses, and research
and development costs. Company size
and other characteristics of the oper-
ating firms are tabulated by EIC.

3. Company Summary details employ-
ment and sales size, legal form of
organization, and company/establish-
ment cross tabulations. The number
and primary industry of owned or oper-
ated establishments, number of employ-
ees, annual payroll, and sales/receipts
are shown by EIC,

There are some entries for mineral
industries in three other series of re-
ports (1989-1991) based on the 1987
Economic Censuses and administrative
records. These are:

* Minority-Owned Businesses, MB87, (D *
= @@ +, which offers general sta-
tistics for the Nation by two-digit SIC
group and by broad economic sector
at lower levels for establishments owned
by Blacks, Hispanics, American Indi-
ans, and other minorities.

* Women-Owned Businesses, WB87, 1) *
= @@ +2, a single report with the
same general statistics as the MB87
series.

* Characteristics of Business Owners,
CBO87 CD *m +, presents demographic
and economic characteristics of minor-
ity, female, and nonminority male busi-
ness owners and their businesses. Total
firms and sales/receipts are shown for
each group at the State level, and by
two-digit SIC group at the national
level.

Some of the Census Bureau's current
programs contain annual or quarterly esti-
Oe) that cover mineral industries:

* Quarterly Financial Report for Manu-
facturing, Mining, and Trade Corpora-
tions, OQFR, 1) *m + & offers aggre-
gated quarterly statistics for the Nation
on the financial position of domestic
corporations, such as estimated state-
ments of income and retained earn-
ings, balance sheets, and related oper-
ating ratios by EIC and asset size.

* County Business Patterns, CBP, 0 *
m= @ © @ + Bestimates the number
of employees in each year’s mid-March
pay period, together with the number
and employment size of establishments
and payroll by two-, three-, and four-
digit SIC levels for the United States,
States, and counties.

* Trade and Employment, TM3, *
TM@ + estimates the quarterly changes
in value of U.S. imports and exports,
by SIC-based commodity groups and
in nonagricultural domestic employ-
ment, all at the national level.

* U.S. Commodity Exports and Imports
as Related to Output, ES2, D*m +,
issued periodically, deals at the national
level with the quantity and value of
exports and imports and the value of
import duty for detailed SIC-based com-
modity groups and compares U.S. domes-
tic output with foreign trade.

* Many of the Census Bureau’s sum-
mary, detailed, and annual foreign trade
reports include some data on the imports

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