Trucks, Minivans, Sport-Utility Vehicles Top Shipments In 2002
Light trucks, including minivans and sport-utility vehicles, worth $116 billion, constituted the top product class among manufacturers’ shipments in 2001, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau reported today.
Following, in order, were: manufacturers’ shipments of gasoline, at $99 billion; automobiles, $85 billion; and integrated microcircuits, $47 billion
The 2001 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Value of Product Shipments,[PDF 731KB] released on the Internet, shows data for 1,500 manufactured product classes, ranging from airplanes, breakfast cereals, and chocolate and cocoa products to X-ray machines and zippers for the years 1997 to 2001.
The data are based on a sample of 52,000 manufacturing establishments and are subject to sampling variability and nonsampling error. Sources of nonsampling error include errors of response, nonreporting and coverage.
