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Table 12.—Employment by Nonbank U.S. Affiliates by Industry of Sales, 1990-1995

Thousands of employees As a percentage of total U.S. employment in nonbank private industries/1/
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
All industries/2/ 4,734 4,872 4,715 4,766 4,841 4,928 5.1 5.3 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing 33 44 32 31 32 29 1.8 2.3 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.5
Mining, excluding oil and gas extraction 77 73 68 75 67 63 24.4 24.6 24.0 28.1 25.1 23.9
Construction 80 73 68 64 61 68 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.3
Manufacturing/3/ 2,130 2,174 2,140 2,149 2,193 2,155 10.9 11.5 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.4
Food and kindred products 207 211 198 184 188 179 12.5 12.6 11.9 10.9 11.2 10.6
Textile mill products 37 40 45 44 50 47 5.4 6.0 6.7 6.5 7.4 7.0
Apparel and other textile products 28 29 32 46 56 47 2.7 2.9 3.2 4.7 5.7 5.0
Lumber, wood, furniture, and fixtures 28 32 31 33 33 26 2.2 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.0
Paper and allied products 50 52 52 52 51 57 7.1 7.6 7.5 7.5 7.3 8.2
Printing and publishing 109 103 101 113 119 121 6.8 6.6 6.6 7.4 7.6 7.7
Chemicals and allied products 332 341 348 354 354 314 30.5 31.4 32.1 32.9 33.4 30.3
Petroleum and coal products/4/ 106 105 89 77 69 54 19.1 18.9 17.4 15.5 14.1 11.6
Rubber and plastics products 129 126 130 130 135 135 14.5 14.5 14.8 14.3 14.1 13.8
Stone, clay, and glass products 110 102 107 108 104 115 19.8 19.6 20.8 20.7 19.4 21.2
Primary metal industries 112 111 110 113 116 111 14.8 15.4 15.9 16.6 16.6 15.7
Fabricated metal products 101 109 110 114 117 114 7.1 8.0 8.3 8.5 8.4 7.9
Industrial machinery and equipment 218 220 217 218 221 235 10.3 10.9 11.2 11.2 11.1 11.3
Electronic and other electric equipment 271 276 263 259 268 291 16.2 17.3 17.2 16.9 17.0 17.9
Motor vehicles and equipment 90 96 90 98 113 124 11.2 12.2 11.0 11.7 12.6 13.0
Other transportation equipment 41 50 50 38 32 34 3.5 4.5 4.9 4.2 3.8 4.2
Instruments and related products 112 118 111 112 114 112 11.2 12.2 11.9 12.4 13.2 13.3
Other 49 52 56 54 54 40 8.5 9.3 10.2 9.7 9.6 7.1
Transportation 221 218 198 250 250 262 6.2 6.2 5.6 6.8 6.5 6.6
Communication and public utilities 29 29 33 39 80 95 1.3 1.3 1.5 1.7 3.6 4.3
Wholesale trade 355 344 346 359 363 378 5.7 5.6 5.6 5.9 5.8 5.8
Retail trade 848 890 798 831 830 880 4.2 4.5 4.0 4.1 3.9 4.0
Finance, except depository institutions/5/ 63 71 70 60 63 65 5.2 6.0 6.3 5.0 4.9 5.1
Insurance 127 144 143 140 137 134 5.8 6.4 6.5 6.3 6.1 5.9
Real estate 34 33 32 31 27 25 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.2 1.9 1.8
Services/6/ 660 719 702 673 676 720 2.3 2.5 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.1
Hotels and other lodging places 141 144 161 133 137 134 8.2 8.6 9.7 7.9 8.0 7.7
Business services 277 307 299 265 275 290 5.4 6.0 5.5 4.5 4.3 4.2
Motion pictures 29 28 24 35 37 40 7.1 6.8 5.9 8.4 8.1 7.8
Other 213 240 217 240 228 256 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Unspecified/7/ 78 61 87 64 60 54 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. The data for 1990-94 are from table 6.4C of the "National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) Tables" (see the January/February 1996 issue of the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS). The data for 1995 were estimated by extrapolating the NIPA data using employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 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 1990-91 include, but data for 1992-95 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 percentage shares for 1990-91 on this line were 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. In previous articles in this series, oil and gas extraction without refining was included in mining.