Census of Manufactures, 1972: Location of Manufacturing Plants

<p>The Census of Manufacturers is part of the Economic Census series. The Location of Manufacturing Plants file provides information on the number of manufacturing establishments in each of approximately 450 manufacturing industries, classified according to their employment size and the State and county within which they are located. Each record is associated with a particular industry and a particular county (or State of U.S. Summary) and contains the number of establishments in seven employment size categories. There is a record for each industry-county or industry-State combination with one or more manufacturing plants.</p>