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  • Gross Domestic Product in Current and Real (2000) Dollars by Industry: 1998 to 2006 (.xls).

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Manufactures.
    Summary statistics for manufacturing as a whole and more detailed information for major industry groups and selected products. The types of measures shown at the different levels include data for establishments, employment and payroll, plant and equipment expenditures, value and quantity of production and shipments, value added by manufacture, inventories, and various indicators of financial status.

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Wholesale & Retail Trade.
    Statistics relating to the distributive trades, specifically wholesale trade and retail trade. Data shown for the trades are classified by kind of business and cover sales, establishments, employees, payrolls, and other items.

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Transportation.
    Data on civil air transportation, both passenger and cargo, and on water transportation, including inland waterways, ocean-borne commerce, the merchant marine, cargo, and vessel tonnages. Also statistics on revenues, passenger and freight traffic volume, and employment in various revenue-producing modes of the transportation industry, including motor vehicles, trains, and pipelines. Data are also presented on highway mileage and finances, motor vehicle travel, accidents, and registrations; and characteristics of public transit, railroads, and pipelines.

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Construction & Housing.
    Data on the construction industry and on various indicators of its activity and costs; on housing units and their characteristics and occupants; and on the characteristics and vacancy rates for commercial buildings.

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Agriculture.
    Statistics on farms and farm operators; land use; farm income, expenditures, and debt; farm output, productivity, and marketings; foreign trade in agricultural products; specific crops; and livestock, poultry, and their products.

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Banking, Finance, & Insurance.
    Data on finances, various types of financial institutions, money and credit, securities, insurance, and real estate.

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Energy & Utilities.
    Statistics on fuel resources, energy production and consumption, electric energy, hydroelectric power, nuclear power, solar energy, wood energy, and the electric and gas utility industries.

  • The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Information & Communications.
    Statistics on the various information and communications media: publishing, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and software; motion pictures, sound recordings, broadcasting, and telecommunications; and information services, such as libraries. Statistics on computer use and Internet access are also included.

  • Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history. Thomas Carson, editor, 1999, The Gale Group.
    A comprehensive coverage of American economic history with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • Company and Industry Profiles. Amanda Quick, editor, 1999, The Gale Group.
    Provides information on both the current operations and performance of 280 contemporary public and private U.S.-based and significant foreign-owned companies, in addition to the historical events, people, and strategies that shaped them. An appendix of 35 industry profiles is also included, which give information regarding the industry as a whole.