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The Manufacturing Census report is called "Concentration Ratios in Manufacturing" and is numbered MC(yr)-S-6 (where yr is last two digits of the census year). It indicates the percentage of business done by the top 4, 8,20, and 50 companies in each four digit SIC code industry. The full 1992 printed report is expected to be available in December of 1996; however, some of the data is already available on-line and we have provided it below. More information about the Census of Manufactures is available at http://www.census.gov/pub/econ/www/mc0100.html. You can read the page and then you can click on "VIEW" in the top left corner to move on into the census.
Similarly the Retail Census has a report called 1992 Establishment & Firm Size Subject Series #RC92-S-1. This report provides information on the size of the companies, sales statistics, employment size, multi-unit info, payroll, and concentration of the largest firms. We have copied the concentration information pertaining to Boat Dealers to our Concentration Ratio Page.
If you try comparing your firm to this data, be sure to use your 1992 figures.
**************************************** The following internal combustion engine and boat builder concentration information was copied from the census web site file mc92cr.sum. The first portion of the information refers to all manufacturing industries. ****************************************
The following tables contain selected statistics from the 1992 Census of
Manufactures report MC92-S-2, "Concentration Ratios in Manufacturing." For
a copy of this report in database format, call (301)457-4769 - for 1992,
this report will not be released in printed format.
Table 1
Percentage of Value Added Accounted for by x-Largest Companies: 1992
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50 Largest: 24%
100 Largest: 32%
150 Largest: 38%
200 Largest: 42%
Table 2
Percentage of Industry Statistics Accounted for by Largest Companies: 1992
New
Top Value Employment Wages Production Workers Value Captl
Companies Added w/ w/out w/ w/out Number Hours Wages Shpmts Expend
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50 23.7 13.0 14.0 17.4 19.7 12.8 12.9 19.3 23.0 21.8
51 to 100 8.4 4.5 4.8 5.2 5.8 4.3 4.4 5.4 8.8 10.8
101 to 150 5.5 3.9 4.2 4.1 4.7 4.3 4.4 4.9 5.8 6.8
151 to 200 4.0 2.8 3.0 3.0 3.4 3.0 3.0 3.5 3.8 5.7
200 41.7 24.2 26.0 29.7 33.6 24.5 24.7 33.2 41.4 45.0
Table 3
Percentage of VS
Value of Accounted for by Herfindahl
SIC Number of Shipments x-Largest Companies Hirschmann
Code Companies ($Mil) 4 8 20 50 Index
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3519 250 11824.2 56 75 91 97 1027 Internal Combustion Engines
3732 2376 4623.5 32 38 48 61 383 Boat Building & Repair
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Note - their are far fewer companies in the Internal Combustion Engine manufacturing business than there are Boat Builders (250 vs. 2376) and that the Internal Combustion Engine Industry is even more concentrated that the Boat Builder Industry (top 4 companies account for 56 % vs. 32 % of the industry's business).
| Establishments (number) | Sales Amount ($1,000) | Sales as Percent of Total | Annual Payroll Amount ($1,000) | Annual Payroll As Percent of Sales | First Quarter Payroll ($1,000) | Number of Paid Employees March 12th | |
| FIRMS (Total) | 4,779 | 5,537,139 | 100.0 | 557,982 | 10.1 | 117,372 | 27,282 |
| 4 Largest Firms | 96 | 217,331 | 3.9 | 15,830 | 7.3 | 3,514 | 1,006 |
| 8 Largest Firms | 125 | 329,185 | 5.9 | 24,679 | 7.5 | 5,505 | 1,333 |
| 20 Largest Firms | 151 | 530,590 | 9.6 | 40,507 | 7.6 | 8,774 | 1,904 |
| 50 Largest Firms | 205 | 837,099 | 15.1 | 70,975 | 8.5 | 15,436 | 3,092 |
Note the Boat Dealer industry is far less concentrated than the other 2 industries examined earlier (top 4 firms only account for 3.9% of the business). Also it is very apparent that most dealers only have one location. In the future we may post some "average calculations" with this data. Meanwhile, you might want to go ahead and calculate some of the averages yourself.
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