This Database contains annual production and cost data for 450 manufacturing industries from 1958 to 1994 . These data come primarily from the Annual Survey of Manufactures. NBER has added some price deflators and real capital stock information. Past updates of this data have been done by Wayne Gray and Eric Bartelsman. SAS program to read the data and reassemble the complete data set is supplied as well.
Preliminary documentation is available on-line.
Full documentation is available from NBER Technical Working Paper 205, October 1996 . Donwloadable productivity data files and documentation.