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Table 12.—Employment by Nonbank U.S. Affiliates by Industry of Sales, 1991-96

Thousands of employees As a percentage of total U.S. employment in nonbank private industries/1/
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
All industries/2/ 4,872 4,715 4,766 4,841 4,942 4,978 5.3 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.8
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing 44 32 31 32 28 29 2.3 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.4 1.4
Mining, excluding oil and gas extraction 73 68 75 67 63 62 24.6 24.0 28.0 25.1 23.8 24.2
Construction 73 68 64 61 76 72 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.4 1.3
Manufacturing/3/ 2,174 2,140 2,149 2,193 2,159 2,148 11.5 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.4 11.4
Food and kindred products 211 198 184 188 182 158 12.6 11.9 10.9 11.2 10.8 9.3
Textile mill products 40 45 44 50 46 47 6.0 6.7 6.5 7.4 7.0 7.5
Apparel and other textile products 29 32 46 56 39 41 2.9 3.2 4.7 5.7 4.1 4.6
Lumber, wood, furniture, and fixtures 32 31 33 33 27 28 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.1 2.1
Paper and allied products 52 52 52 51 56 58 7.6 7.5 7.5 7.3 8.1 8.5
Printing and publishing 103 101 113 119 120 113 6.6 6.6 7.4 7.6 7.6 7.2
Chemicals and allied products 341 348 354 354 317 317 31.4 32.1 33.0 33.5 30.5 30.7
Petroleum and coal products/4/ 105 89 77 69 54 54 18.9 17.4 15.4 14.1 11.7 11.7
Rubber and plastics products 126 130 130 135 139 144 14.5 14.8 14.3 14.1 14.2 14.7
Stone, clay, and glass products 102 107 108 104 113 115 19.6 20.8 20.7 19.4 20.9 21.0
Primary metal industries 111 110 113 116 113 100 15.4 15.9 16.6 16.6 15.9 14.1
Fabricated metal products 109 110 114 117 114 125 8.0 8.3 8.5 8.4 7.9 8.6
Industrial machinery and equipment 220 217 218 221 235 233 10.9 11.2 11.2 11.1 11.3 11.0
Electronic and other electric equipment 276 263 259 268 291 298 17.3 17.2 16.9 16.9 17.9 18.0
Motor vehicles and equipment 96 90 98 113 127 137 12.2 11.0 11.7 12.6 13.1 14.2
Other transportation equipment 50 50 38 32 33 29 4.5 4.9 4.2 3.8 4.1 3.6
Instruments and related products 118 111 112 114 112 110 12.2 11.9 12.5 13.3 13.4 12.8
Other 52 56 54 54 42 41 9.3 10.2 9.7 9.6 7.5 7.6
Transportation 218 198 250 250 258 221 6.2 5.6 6.8 6.5 6.5 5.4
Communication and public utilities 29 33 39 80 99 135 1.3 1.5 1.7 3.6 4.5 6.0
Wholesale trade 344 346 359 363 373 377 5.6 5.6 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8
Retail trade 890 798 831 830 888 925 4.5 4.0 4.1 3.9 4.1 4.2
Finance, except depository institutions/5/ 71 70 60 63 66 70 6.0 6.3 5.0 4.9 5.2 5.2
Insurance 144 143 140 137 134 136 6.4 6.5 6.3 6.1 6.0 6.0
Real estate 33 32 31 27 27 29 2.4 2.4 2.2 1.9 1.9 2.0
Services/6/ 719 702 673 676 707 720 2.5 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.0
Hotels and other lodging places 144 161 133 137 130 112 8.6 9.7 7.9 8.0 7.4 6.2
Business services 307 299 265 275 292 316 6.0 5.5 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.2
Motion pictures 28 24 35 37 40 20 6.8 5.9 8.4 8.2 7.8 3.6
Other 240 217 240 228 246 272 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1
Unspecified/7/ 61 87 64 60 65 55 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.

n.a. Not applicable.

  1. The data on U.S. employment in private industries that were used in calculating these percentages are classified by industry of establishment. They are from table 6.4C of the "National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) Tables" (see the August 1997 issue of the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS). The total for U.S. employment in nonbank private industries is equal to employment in private industries less the employment of depository institutions and private households. The U.S. private-industry employment totals used to calculate the affiliate shares in "all industries" in this table differ from the U.S. employment totals used to calculate affiliate shares in tables 13 and 14; the data used for tables 13 and 14 are from BEA's Regional Economic Information System. The estimates used for table 13, unlike those used for this table, do not exclude employment in depository institutions. The estimates used for tables 13 and 14, unlike those used for this table, exclude U.S. residents temporarily employed abroad by U.S. businesses. They may also differ from NIPA estimates used for this table because of different definitions and revision schedules.
  2. For consistency with the coverage of the data on U.S. employment in private industries, U.S.-affiliate employment in Puerto Rico, in "other U.S. areas," and in the "foreign" category was excluded from the U.S.-affiliate employment total when the percentage shares on this line were computed.
  3. Total affiliate manufacturing employment and the shares of all-U.S.-business manufacturing employment accounted for by affiliates shown in this table differ from those shown in table 14. In this table, employment is classified by industry of sales, and the total for manufacturing includes some nonmanufacturing employees (see the box "Using Employment Data to Estimate Affiliate Shares of the U.S. Economy"), whereas in table 14, affiliate manufacturing employment consists only of employees on the payroll of manufacturing plants. Data on the latter basis are not available for the subindustries within manufacturing shown in this table. In addition, the total for manufacturing in this table includes oil and gas extraction, which is excluded from the manufacturing total in table 14.
  4. For both U.S. affiliates and all U.S. businesses, includes oil and gas extraction. (See note below.)
  5. Affiliate data for 1991 include, but data for 1992-96 exclude, savings institutions and credit unions. For consistency with the coverage of the data on U.S. employment in "finance, except depository institutions," U.S. affiliate employment in savings institutions and credit unions was excluded from the U.S. affiliate total in this industry when the percentage share for 1991 on this line was calculated.
  6. Excludes private households.
  7. In the breakdown of employment by industry of sales, U.S. affiliates that filed long forms in the annual surveys (that is, affiliates with assets, sales, or net income or loss greater than $50 million) had to specify their eight largest sales categories, and U.S. affiliates that filed short forms had to specify their three largest sales categories. Employment in all unspecified industries combined is shown on this line.

NOTE.—In this table, petroleum is not shown as a separate major industry. Instead, in order to be consistent with the all-U.S. data on employment by industry, affiliate employment in the various petroleum subindustries is distributed among the other major industries. Thus, manufacturing includes petroleum and coal products, wholesale trade includes petroleum wholesale trade, retail trade includes gasoline service stations, and transportation includes petroleum tanker operations, pipelines, and storage. A significant portion of U.S. affiliate employment in petroleum and coal products is accounted for by integrated petroleum companies that have, in addition to their manufacturing employees, substantial numbers of employees in petroleum extraction; because these employees cannot be identified separately, they are included in petroleum and coal products manufacturing. For consistency, employees of affiliates classified in the "oil and gas extraction without refining" industry are also included in petroleum and coal products manufacturing rather than in mining.