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Occupational Employment
in Manufacturing Industries
U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
December 1985
Bulletin 2248

JAN 3 0 1386

F o r sa le by th e S u p erin ten d en t o f D ocu m en ts, U .S. G overnm ent P r in tin g Office W ash in gton , D.C. 20402

Occupational Employment
in Manufacturing Industries
U.S. Department of Labor
William E. Brock, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner
December 1985
Bulletin 2248

Preface

for many data users, including individuals and
organizations engaged in planning vocational education
programs, training programs supported by the Job
Partnership Training Act, and higher education, o e s
data are also used to prepare information for career
counseling, for job placement activities performed at
State employment security offices, and for personnel
planning and market research conducted by private
enterprises.
This bulletin was prepared in the Office o f Employ­
ment and Unemployment Statistics, Division o f Oc­
cupational and Administrative Statistics, by Thomas P.
Williams and Barbara L. Keitt under the direction of
Glyn Finley. Kevin Tidemann provided data processing
support.
Material in this publication is in the public domain
and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced
without permission.

This bulletin provides data from a 1983 survey o f oc­
cupational employment in manufacturing industries.
Earlier surveys o f manufacturing industries were con­
ducted in 1971, 1974, 1977, and 1980. These surveys
were supplemented with the fmancial assistance o f the
National Science Foundation. Results o f the 1980
survey were published in Bulletin 2133, Occupational

Employment in Manufacturing Industries.
The nonmanufacturing sector was surveyed in 1981
and 1982. Results o f the 1981 survey were published in
Bulletin 2186, Occupational Employment in Mining
Construction, Finance, and Services. Data for the 1982
survey were published in Bulletin 2220, Occupational

Employment in Transportation,
Utilities, and Trade.

Communications,

These periodic surveys are part of a Federal-State
cooperative program o f occupational employment
statistics ( o e s ). The o e s program provides information

iii

Contents

Page
Introduction................................................................................................................................................
Sum m ary....................................................................................................................................................

1
2

Food and kindred p rod ucts....................................................................................................................
Tobacco products.....................................................................................................................................
Textile mill products.................................................................................................................................
Apparel and other textile products........................................................................................................
Lumber and wood products....................................................................................................................
Furniture and fixtures...............................................................................................................................
Paper and allied products.........................................................................................................................
Printing and publishing...........................................................................................................................
Chemicals and allied products................................................................................................................
Petroleum refining and related industries.............................................................................................
Rubber and miscellaneous plastics p rod u cts.......................................................................................
Leather and leather products..................................................................................................................
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products.........................................................................................
Primary metal prod ucts........................................................
Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipm ent..............................
Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment..............................................................
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies.........................................................
Transportation equipment......................................................................................................................
Instruments and related p rod ucts..........................................................................................................
Miscellaneous manufacturing ind u stries.............................................................................................

6
12
16
22
27
33
39
45
51
57
62
68
73
79
86
93
100
107
114
120

Reference tables:
1. Employment in manufacturing industries, 1983......................................................................
2. Employment in manufacturing industries by major occupational group, 1983 ...............
3. Percent distribution of employment in manufacturing industries by major
occupational group, 1983............................................................................................................

4
5
5

Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations:
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

Food and kindred products, June 1983 .....................................................................................
Tobacco products, June 1983 ......................................................................................................
Textile mill products, April 1983 ...............................................................................................
Apparel and other textile products, April 1983 ......................................................................
Lumber and wood products, May 1983.....................................................................................
Furniture and fixtures, May 1983...............................................................................................
Paper and allied products, April 1983 .......................................................................................
Printing and publishing, May 1983 ...........................................................................................
Chemicals and allied products, June 1983................................................................................
Petroleum refining and related industries, May 1983 .........................................................
Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products, June 1983 .......................................................
Leather and leather products, April 1983 ................................................................................

V

7
13
17
23
28
34
40
46
52
58
63
69

Contents—Continued
Page
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.

Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products, May 1983.............................................................
Primary metal products, April 1983 .........................................................................................
Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment, June 1983
Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment, June 1983 ............................
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies, June 1983 .......................
Transportation equipment, June 1983.......................................................................................
Instruments and related products, April 1983 ........................................................................
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries, May 1983 .............................................................

74
80
87
94
101
108
115
121

Appendixes:
A. Survey methods and reliability o f estimates............................................................................ 127
B. The o e s classification system ...................................................................................................... 131
C. O es survey data available from State agencies........................................................................ 133

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Introduction

presented for each industry under the following
headings: Employment, percent o f total employment,
relative error, and percent o f establishments reporting
the occupation.
Employment is based upon survey results adjusted to
reflect total industry employment. The percent o f total
employment refers to total employment in a particular
industry. Relative error measures the level o f confidence
to be placed in each estimate. The percentage of
establishments reporting a particular occupation in­
dicates the frequency o f occurrence o f the occupation.
Occupations with fewer than 50 workers, or with less
than 0.01 percent o f industry employment, or with a
relative error greater than 50 percent are not shown
Data presented
separately but are included in the appropriate residual
This bulletin presents national data on occupational
categories. Employment is rounded to the nearest ten.
employment for 2-digit sic industries.1 Data are
The relative error and percent o f respondents reporting
1
Occupational employment data at the more detailed 3-digit level the occupation are rounded to the nearest whole per­
are available upon request from the Office of Employment and
cent. The percent of total employment was computed
Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Definitions for
from rounded employment data.
all occupations surveyed are also available upon request.
The Occupational Employment Statistics ( o e s )
Survey is designed to collect data on occupational
employment o f wage and salary workers by industry in
nonagricultural establishments. The Bureau o f Labor
Statistics provides the procedures and technical
assistance for the survey, and State employment security
agencies collect the data.
In 1983, 50 States, the District o f Columbia, and
Puerto Rico participated in the survey, compared with
49 States in 1980, 43 States in 1977, and 29 States in
1974. Data for Puerto Rico are not included in the
estimates in this publication. They are available, as are
data for each State, from employment security agen­
cies listed on the inside back cover of this bulletin.

1

Summary

ment in each by major occupational group.
Throughout, changes in occupational employment aris­
ing from changes in classification since the last survey,
rather than actual changes in establishment staffing pat­
terns, are noted. These sections also present detailed oc­
cupational employment data by industry segment
(2-digit Sic).

In 1983, manufacturing employment covered by this
survey totaled 18.4 million, or about 20 percent1 of all
nonagricultural wage and salary workers in the Nation.
As shown in table 1, three-fifths o f these workers were
employed in the durable goods segment o f manufactur­
ing. Representing more than half o f durable goods
employment were the machinery, electrical and elec­
tronic equipment, and transportation equipment in­
dustries. The nondurable goods industries constituted
40 percent of manufacturing employment. Among
these, the largest were food and kindred products, ap­
parel and other textile products, and the printing and
publishing industry, together accounting for over half
o f nondurable goods employment.

Managerial and administrative workers
Persons holding positions as managerial and ad­
ministrative workers are primarily concerned with
policymaking, planning, organizing, staffing, directing,
and controlling activities common to many types of
organizations. Occupations included in this group are
plant, office, and sales managers and corporate officers
such as president, secretary, and treasurer. First-line
supervisors, such as blue-collar worker and clerical
supervisors, however, are included in the same occupa­
tional division as the workers they supervise. The new
coding structure incorporates a new classification: Firstline supervisor—sales. These supervisory workers are
now included in the sales rather than in the
managers/administrators group. (See appendix B.)
In 1983, managerial and administrative workers
numbered more than 1 million, representing nearly 6
percent of total employment in the manufacturing sec­
tor. The durable goods segment employed three-fifths
of the workers in this occupational group. The largest
concentrations o f managerial and administrative
workers were found in the machinery and electrical and
electronic equipment industries.

Major occupational groups
A new occupational classification system, designed to
better suit the needs of both data users and data pro­
ducers, was used for the first time in this survey. First, it
emphasizes occupations of special interest, such as
technology-related occupations, and those requiring
substantial training. Additionally, it is more compatible
with the Standard Occupational Classification System
used for a variety o f other occupational data. Also, to
aid data collectors and respondents, the new structure is
more concise. A detailed explanation o f the new
classification system is given in appendix B.
Under the new classification system, workers are
classified by occupation into seven major occupational
groups: Managerial and administrative workers; profes­
sional, paraprofessional, and technical workers; sales
and related workers; clerical and administrative support
workers; service workers; agriculture, forestry, fishing,
and related workers; and production, construction,
operating, maintenance, and material handling
workers. Tables 2 and 3 present the distribution of
employment in the various industries surveyed.
The following sections discuss each of these occupa­
tional groups and their distribution among the surveyed
industries. Subsequent sections deal with the industry
segments within manufacturing and discuss employ­

Professional, paraprofessional, and technical
workers
Persons employed in professional positions usually
deal with the theoretical or practical aspects o f such
fields as science, engineering, art, education, medicine,
law, and business relations. Most of these occupations
require substantial educational preparation, usually at
the university level. Paraprofessionals work under the
direction o f professionals. These occupations usually re­
quire some postsecondary education or, in some in­
stances, a baccalaureate degree. Technical occupations
require knowledge of fundamental scientific, engineer­
ing, mathematical, computer programming, or draft

1 Total employment for nonagricultural establishments averaged
90.1 million in 1983. See Supplement to Employment and Earnings,
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 1984.

2

Clerical and administrative support workers

design principles. This knowledge is acquired through
study at technical schools and junior colleges, through
other formal postsecondary training less extensive than
a 4-year college course, or through equivalent on-thejob training or experience.
In 1983, professional, paraprofessional, and technical
workers numbered 2 million, representing 11 percent o f
total employment in the manufacturing sector. The
durable goods segment employed 72 percent o f the
workers in this occupational group. The largest concen­
trations o f professional, paraprofessional, and technical
workers were found in the electrical and electronic
equipment and transportation equipment industries.

Persons employed in this occupational group are con­
centrated in five categories: First-line super­
visors—-clerical; selected secretarial and general office
occupations; electronic data processing and other office
machine occupations; selected communication, mail,
and message distributing occupations; and material
recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing oc­
cupations. The last group is comprised o f plant clerical
workers who plan, coordinate, or expedite production
and the flow o f work. They are also involved in the
clerical aspects o f receiving, storing, issuing, or shipping
o f materials, merchandise, supplies, or equipment. The
other (nonsupervisory) groups are primarily comprised
o f office clerical workers who prepare, systematize,
transcribe, transfer, or preserve written communication
and records, as well as collect accounts and distribute
information.
Clerical workers ranked second among the seven ma­
jor occupational groups, with 2.2 million workers, or 12
percent o f total employment in the manufacturing sec­
tor in 1983. The durable goods segment employed 56
percent o f the workers in this occupational group. The
largest concentrations o f clerical workers were found in
the machinery and printing and publishing industries.

Sales workers
In the manufacturing sector, sales workers primarily
include persons who are required to have specific
knowledge o f the commodity or service being sold, in
contrast to retail trade, in which sales workers sell any
of a large variety o f goods or services and usually are
only required to have familiarity with the pricing of
those goods and services.
Sales representatives include those who sell com­
modities on a wholesale basis to wholesale, retail, in­
dustrial, professional, or other establishments. They
solicit orders from established clientele and attempt to
secure new customers; show samples or catalog illustra­
tions o f products to prospective buyers and explain their
merit; quote prices and credit and discount terms; ar­
range delivery schedules; process orders to offices or
warehouses; resolve customer complaints; and keep in­
formed o f the latest market conditions, product innova­
tions, and price changes. Sales engineers include oc­
cupations primarily concerned with selling to businesses
goods and services where a technical background
equivalent to a degree in engineering is required.
In 1983, sales workers numbered approximately
540,000, representing 3 percent o f total employment in
the manufacturing sector. The nondurable goods seg­
ment employed 56 percent o f the workers in .his occupa­
tional group. The largest concentrations of sales
workers were found in the printing and publishing and
food and kindred products industries.
Unlike other major occupational groups within the
manufacturing sector, the number of sales workers in­
creased between 1980 and 1983. Employment of sales
workers in manufacturing increased by over 20,000
despite a drop o f 1.8 million in total manufacturing
employment.2

Service workers
Persons in this occupational group perform services
for individuals or establishments. Service workers pro­
tect individuals and property, prepare and serve food
and beverages, and clean interiors and equipment of
buildings, offices, stores, and vehicles, etc.
In 1983, service workers numbered over 325,000,
representing almost 2 percent o f total employment in
the manufacturing sector. The durable goods segment
employed 54 percent o f the workers in this occupational
group. The largest concentrations of service workers
were found in the food and kindred products and
transportation equipment industries.

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related workers

Persons employed in this occupational group were
concentrated in lumber and wood products (sic 24) and,
to a lesser degree, in food and kindred products (sic 20).
This category includes forestry workers such as choke
setters, log handling equipment operators, nursery
workers, and conservation workers. Agricultural
workers include persons in occupations such as graders
and sorters o f agricultural products; groundskeepers
and gardeners, except farm; and farm equipment
2 This increase was derived by adjusting the 1983 survey data for operators. In 1983, fewer than 100,000 persons were
changes in the oes coding structure. Specifically, employment totals
employed in agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
for “ sales engineers” and “ first-line supervisors—sales” were
occupations,
representing about one-half o f 1 percent of
deducted from 1983 manufacturing data, as these occupations were
not included in the sales group in prior surveys.
total employment in the manufacturing sector.
3

Production, construction, operating, m ain­
tenance, and material handling occupations

over 12.1 million workers, or 66.3 percent o f total
manufacturing employment in 1983. Nearly three-fifths
o f the workers in this group were in durable goods in­
dustries. The largest concentrations o f production and
related workers were found in the electrical and elec­
tronic equipment industries and the food and kindred
products industries.

This occupational group, referred to hereafter in the
text as production and related workers, includes all
skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled workers performing
machine and manual tasks. This was by far the largest
o f the seven major occupational groups, accounting for

Table 1. Employment in manufacturing industries, 1983
Employment

Percent of total
manufacturing
employment

Total................................................................

18,369,380

100.0

Durable goods industries, to ta l...............................
Lumber and wood products, except furniture....
Furniture and fixtures............................................
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products.........
Primary metal products.........................................
Fabricated metal products....................................
Machinery, except electrical and transportation
equipment.........................................................
Electrical and electronic machinery.....................
Transportation equipment.....................................
Instruments and related products........................
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries.............

10,700,830
645,130
439,250
570,300
827,560
1,369,000

58.3
3.5
2.4
3.1
4.5
7.5

2,026,830
2,017,110
1,747,670
688,150
369,830

11.0
11.0
9.5
3.7
2.0

Nondurable goods industries, to tal.........................
Food and kindred products..................................
Tobacco products..................................................
Textile mill products...............................................
Apparel and other textile products......................
Paper and allied products.....................................
Printing and publishing..........................................
Chemicals and allied products.............................
Petroleum refining and related industries...........
Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products ....
Leather and leather products...............................

7,668,550
1,618,130
62,060
731,690
1,141,020
653,480
1,286,710
1,053,520
196,960
719,440
205,540

41.7
8.8
.3
4.0
6.2
3.6
7.0
5.7
1.1
3.9
1.1

Industry

4

Table 2. Employment in manufacturing industries by major occupational group, 1983

Industry

Managers and
administrative
workers

Professional,
paraprofessional, and
technical
workers

Sales and
related workers

Clerical and
administrative
support
workers

Agriculture,
forestry,
fishing, and
related workers

Production,
construction,
operating,
maintenance,
and material
handling
workers

Service
workers

Total ..........................................

1,062,330

2,012,940

540,560

2,150,890

92,300

12,184,580

325,790

Food and kindred products................
Tobacco products................................
Textile mill products............................
Apparel and other textile products....
Lumber and wood products, except
furniture...........................................
Furniture and fixtures..........................
Paper and allied products..................
Printing and publishing........................
Chemicals and allied products...........
Petroleum refining and related
industries.........................................
Rubber and miscellaneous plastics
products..........................................
Leather and leather products.............
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete
products..........................................
Primary metal products.......................
Fabricated metal products..................
Machinery, except electrical and
transportation equipment..............
Electrical and electronic machinery ...
Transportation equipment...................
Instruments and related products .....
Miscellaneous manufacturing
industries.........................................

77,720
2,470
25,460
35,430

58,200
4,220
19,940
17,410

68,300
3,020
7,700
19,100

152,320
4,500
58,940
98,130

16,100
40
430
130

1,192,260
45,870
605,450
957,550

53,240
1,930
13,780
13,280

30,240
19,690
31,490
91,520
86,400

13,360
11,090
41,250
147,490
202,040

12,270
12,430
20,450
123,570
38,270

42,540
39,600
63,120
302,560
153,900

66,240
120
2,960
230
2,520

469,820
350,090
484,860
602,150
546,840

10,660
6,230
9,350
19,200
23,560

10,770

37,420

4,810

24,770

40

117,050

2,110

40,800
8,130

36,000
3,820

14,620
4,680

63,640
19,780

260
40

553,380
166,650

10,740
2,440

33,880
36,630
82,190

26,740
54,920
92,580

15,110
12,370
35,840

53,680
74,110
127,560

270
260
410

433,220
632,910
1,010,290

7,400
16,360
20,130

149,820
123,420
94,310
56,980

340,620
401,800
352,670
132,570

63,060
34,460
11,190
25,670

287,560
243,560
179,220
109,590

780
440
700
250

1,153,170
1,183,940
1,072,720
351,250

31,830
29,500
36,860
11,830

24,970

18,830

13,660

51,810

90

255,110

5,370

Table 3. Percent distribution of employment in manufacturing industries by major occupational group, 1983

Industry

All
occupations

Managers
and
administrative
workers

Professional,
paraprofessional, and
technical
workers

Sales and
related
workers

T o ta l..........................................

100.0

5.8

11.0

2.9

F o o d a n d k in d re d p r o d u c t s ......................

100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0

4.8
4.0
3.5
3.1

3.6
6.8
2.7
1.5

100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0

4.7
4.5
4.8
7.1
8.2

2.1
2.5
6.3
11.5
19.2

100.0

5.5

100.0
100.0

Tobacco products................................
Textile mill products............................
Apparel and other textile products....
Lumber and wood products, except
furniture...........................................
Furniture and fixtures..........................
Paper and allied products ..................
Printing and publishing........................
Chemicals and allied products...........
Petroleum refining and related
industries.........................................
Rubber and miscellaneous plastics
products..........................................
Leather and leather products.............
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete
products..........................................
Primary metal products.......................
Fabricated metal products..................
Machinery, except electrical and
transportation equipment..............
Electrical and electronic machinery ...
Transportation equipment...................
Instruments and related products .....
Miscellaneous manufacturing
industries.........................................

Clerical and
administrative
support
workers

Production,
Agriculture, construction,
operating,
forestry,
fishing, and maintenance,
and material
related
handling
workers
workers

Service
workers

11.7

0.5

66.3

1.8

4 .2

9 .4

4.9
1.1
1.7

7.2
8.1
8.6

1.0
.1
.1
.0

73.7
73.9
82.7
83.9

3.3
3.1
1.9
1.2

1.9
2.8
3.1
9.6
3.6

6.6
9.0
9.7
23.5
14.6

10.3
.0
.5
.0
.2

72.8
79.7
74.2
46.8
51.9

1.7
1.4
1.4
1.5
2.2

19.0

2.4

12.6

.0

59.4

1.1

5.7
4.0

5.0
1.9

2.0
2.3

8.8
9.6

.0
.0

76.9
81.1

1.5
1.2

100.0
100.0
100.0

5.9
4.4
6.0

4.7
6.6
6.8

2.6
1.5
2.6

9.4
9.0
9.3

.0
.0
.0

76.0
76.5
73.8

1.3
2.0
1.5

100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0

7.4
6.1
5.4
8.3

16.8
19.9
20.2
19.3

3.1
1.7
.6
3.7

14.2
12.1
10.3
15.9

.0
.0
.0
.0

56.9
58.7
61.4
51.0

1.6
1.5
2.1
1.7

100.0

6.8

5.1

3.7

14.0

.0

69.0

1.5

5

Food and Kindred Products

distributed as follows: Managerial and administrative
workers, 5 percent; professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers, 4 percent; sales workers, 4 percent;
and service workers, 3 percent.
The five most populous occupations in food and kin­
dred products manufacturing are listed in the tabulation
below. These jobs, all o f which are in the production
category, made up over one-quarter o f total industry
employment.

Establishments which manufacture or process foods,
beverages, and certain related items for human con­
sumption employed 1.6 million workers, accounting for
9 percent o f manufacturing and one-fifth o f nondurable
goods employment in 1983. The three largest employers
o f these workers were: Establishments processing and
packing meat, pork, poultry, and eggs, with 21 percent
o f industry employment; establishments manufacturing
beverages, 14 percent; and establishments canning and
preserving fruits and vegetables, also with 14 percent.
Total employment in the food and kindred products
industry declined by 4.5 percent between 1980 and 1983.
Employment since 1977 by major occupational group is
given in text table 1.
As shown in table 4, the 1.2 million production and
related workers in the food and kindred products in­
dustry accounted for nearly three-fourths o f total in­
dustry employment. Clerical workers ranked second
with 9 percent. The remaining employment was

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

120,630

7.4

94,240
76,650
74,950
74,280

5.8
4.7
4.6
4.6

Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders................
Meat, poultry, and fish cutters
and trimmers, hand....................
Driver/sales workers....................
Cannery workers..........................
Hand packers and packagers . . . .

Text table 1. Food and kindred products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1977

1980

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,710,910

1,695,830

1,618,130

-5.4

Managerial and administrative workers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rke rs...................................................

108,480

107,750

177,720

-28.4

41,950
62,880
170,470
1,259,250
67,880

57,360
66,910
169,730
1,241,080
52,000

58,200
68,300
152,320
21,208,360
53,240

38.7
8.6
-10.6
-4.0
-21.6

1 A significant portion of the decline may be due to changes in the coding
structure rather than to actual changes in establishment staffing patterns.
The addition of five first-line supervisor occupations to the production group
suggests that respondents may have shifted some managerial employment in­
to the production category. Additionally, employment for “first-line super-

visor— sales would previously have been included with the managerial group.
2 Includes 16,000 agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related workers who
would have been classified as production and related workers in previous
surveys.

6

Table 4. Food and kindred products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983
(SIC 20)

Occupation

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

1,618,150

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

77,730
5,370

4.80
.33

n.a.
3

n.a.
17

3,380
2,210

.21
.14

2
2

14
10

7,420
2,400
9,700
37,580
9,670

.46
.15
.60
2.32
.60

3
6
3
1
5

13
7
19
78
11

58,200
21,760

3.60
1.34

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

10,490
9,040
620
830

.65
.56
.04
.05

n.a.
2
6
9

n.a.
25
2
1

2,470

.15

4

7

2,610

.16

3

10

1,880
400

.12
.02

4
5

6
2

730
3,180
7,720
560
200
2,060
350
3,300
1,250

.05
.20
.48
.03
.01
.13
.02
.20
.08

9

2

7

4

2,010

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers,
farm products...........................................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
Compliance officers and enforcement
inspectors, except construction.............................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers.......................................................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Agricultural engineers................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists................ ......................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Drafters.........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Life scientists.................................................................................
Agricultural and food scientists................................................
Biological scientists....................................................................
All other life scientists...............................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Biological, agricultural, and food
technicians and technologists,
except health ...........................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h ealth..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................

See footnotes at end of table.

7

n.a.

n.a.

11

14

1
1

6

6

8
8
8

2

.12

n.a.

n.a.

300

.02

11

1

220
740

.01
.05

11

1

7

3

750
4,120
3,850
270
2,240
1,100
850
290

.05
.25
.24
.02
.14
.07
.05
.02

11
4

-------- 1
n.a.
8

12
n.a.
10

n.a.
2

10,400

.64

n.a.

n.a.

4,320

.27

6

4

4,540

.28

4

5

1,540

.10

10

1

5,520

.34

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

7
2

1

2

8

14

0

Table 4. Food and kindred products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 20)

Occupation

Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
All other computer systems analysts,
programmers, and programmer aides ..................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers ............................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity writers ...................................................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
Salespersons, retail ......................................................................
Cashiers..........................................................................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers ................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers.......................................................................................
Service occupations.......................................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

1,890
2,630

0.12
.16

1,000

.06

1,080

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

6
6

4
6

n.a.

n.a.

.07

n.a.

n.a.

600

.04

11

1

2,750

.17

n.a.

n.a.

68,300

4.22

n.a.

n.a.

10,990

.68

3

11

6,580

.41

5

8

29,590
13,340
4,110
3,690

1.83
.82
.25
.23

3
4
6
6

29
7
5
4

152,310

9.41

n.a.

n.a.

6,170
20,700
790
1,760
2,240
860

.38
1.28
.05
.11
.14
.05

4
3
18
2
5
7

15
41
1
9
5
2

2,120
790

.13
.05

2
5

9
3

5,390
1,150
23,740
3,760
5,050
23,880

.33
.07
1.47
.23
.31
1.48

2
3
2
2
3
2

14
5
51
16
12
45

8,840

.55

n.a.

n.a.

1,370

.08

6

3

2,430
4,620
420
1,930

.15
.29
.03
.12

3
3
9
2

8
10
1
11

40,940

2.53

n.a.

n.a.

3,360

.21

3

8

5,780

.36

3

11

8,750

.54

3

17

21,210

1.31

2

36

1,840

.11

7

2

2,200

.14

7

3

53,250

3.29

n.a.

n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

8

.

Table 4. Food and kindred products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 20)

Occupation

First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
Elevator operators......................................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households.....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors-agricultural, forestry,
fishing, and related workers......................................................
Graders and sorters, agricultural products................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Farm equipment operators ..........................................................
All other agriculture, forestry, fishing, and
related workers...........................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers.........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers ..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights.....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Farm equipment mechanics......................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers........................................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Mechanical control and valve installers and
repairers....................................................................................
Coin and vending machine servicers and
repairers....................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,610
4,770

0.22
.29

4
3

7
7

4,150

.26

9

3

39,180

2.42

n.a.

n.a.

36,490
240

2.26
.01

1
11

41
0

2,450
1,540

.15
.10

9
11

3
1

16,100

.99

n.a.

n.a.

1,380
7,190
730
2,780

.09
.44
.05
.17

7
6
8
8

2
5
2
2

4,020

.25

10

1

1,192,260

73.68

n.a.

n.a.

65,960

4.08

n.a.

n.a.

6,860

.42

3

13

690

.04

12

1

48,990

3.03

1

58

4,470

.28

3

10

4,950
1,610

.31
.10

4
8

6
2

18,260
97,640
32,370
2,210
4;610
35,880
. 5,360

1.13
6.03
2.00
.14
.28
2.22
.33

4
n.a.
2
8
4
2
3

17
n.a.
27
2
6
39
11

5,270
960

.33
.06

3
13

8
1

1,940
950

.12
.06

4
8

4
1

300

.02

13

5,760
2,030

.36
.13

3
8

7
2

11,390

.70

n.a.

n.a.

f>

l

See footnotes at end of table.

9

Table 4. Food and kindred products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 20)

Occupation

Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................... .............
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers............... ......................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
Boilermakers...............................................................................
All other precision metal workers............................................
Precision food workers.................................................................
Slaughterers and butchers........................................................
Bakers, manufacturing...............................................................
Food batchmakers.....................................................................
All other precision food and
tobacco w orkers.................................. ....................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Cooking machine operators and tenders,
food and tobacco....................................................................
Roasting, baking, and drying machine
operators and tenders, food and
tobacco .....................................................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure..............................................................................
Cooling and freezing equipment operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Dairy processing equipment operators,
including setters.......................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders.......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Separating, filtering, clarifying,
precipitating, and still machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Cannery workers ........................................................................
Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and
trimmers, h a n d ............................ ............................................
Molders and casters, h a n d .................. ....................................
All other hand workers, n e c .....................................................
Plant and system w orkers..........................................................
Stationary engineers.................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators..............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer..... ...................................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,180
5,770

0.07
.36

5
4

3
8

1,320

.08

6

4

1,840
1,280
5,180
3,660
880
470
170
109,850
56,390
27,780
19,050

.11
.08
.32
'.23
.05
.03
.01
6.79
3.48
1.72
1.18

8
19
n.a.
8
9
9
19
n.a.
2
3
3

2
1
n.a.
4
1
1
(3)
n.a.
8
9
14

6,630
500

.41
.03

9
26

2
<*>

250,130

15.46

n.a.

n.a.

13,370

.83

3

14

11,830

.73

4

9

2,350

.15

4

4

5,330

.33

5

5

16,700

1.03

3

8

920

.06

11

1

8,980

.55

4

8

930

.06

11

1

3,410

.21

5

3

10,630

.66

4

8

27,090

1.67

2

25

2,960

.18

14

1

9,300

.57

4

9

120,630

7.45

2

42

3,840

.24

n.a.

n.a.

11,860
188,360
74,950

.73
11.64
4.63

9
n.a.
2

4
n.a.
9

94,240
1,160
18,010
3,710
2,110
1,600
145,390

5.82
.07
1.11
.23
.13
.10
8.98

1
15
7
n.a.
5
10
n.a.

10
1
3
n.a.
3
2
n.a.

43,820

2.71

2

36

See footnotes at end of table.

10

Table 4. Food and kindred products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 20)

Occupation

Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
Driver/saies workers..................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators.....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
Pump operators..........................................................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, han d ................................
Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners.................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

24,080
76,650
840

1.49
4.74
.05

3
2
8

23
24
1

1,170
46,370
310
37,390
4,440
1,390

.07
2.87
.02
2.31
.27
.09

9
n.a.

1
n.a.

2,840
3,000

11

1

2
6
10

28
3
1

.18
.19

8
5

2
4

660
18,010
34,500
74,280
12,420

.04
1.11
2.13
4.59
.77

14
4
2
2
3

1
10
22
23
11

103,870

~ 6.42

2

18

' Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

M

Tobacco Products

The manufacture o f tobacco products employed
62,060 workers in 1983, or only 0.3 percent o f manufac­
turing and 1 percent o f nondurable goods employment.
Most workers were employed within establishments
manufacturing cigarettes, which accounted for 76 per­
cent o f industry employment. Establishments primarily
engaged in the stemming and redrying o f tobacco ac­
counted for 9 percent o f industry employment.
While total employment levels remained constant for
the tobacco products industry between 1980 and 1983,
clerical and managerial and administrative jobs declin­
ed by close to 35 percent. Conversely, professional,
paraprofessional, and technical jobs increased by 17
percent. Shifts in employment since 1977 can be seen in
text table 2.
The industry’s 45,870 production and related workers
accounted for 74 percent o f total industry employment
(table 5). Clerical workers ranked second with over 7
percent. The remaining employment was distributed as
follows: Professional, paraprofessional, and technical

workers, 7 percent; sales workers, 5 percent; managerial
and administrative workers, 4 percent; and service
workers, 3 percent.
The five most populous occupations in manufactur­
ing tobacco products are listed below. These production
occupations made up more than one-fourth o f total in­
dustry employment.

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

6,680

10.8

3,780

6.1

2,730

4.4

2,510

4.0

1,590

2.6

Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders..................
Machinery maintenance
mechanics......................................
First-line supervisors,
production....................................
Production inspectors, testers,
graders, sorters, samplers, and
weighers........................................
Industrial truck and tractor
operators......................................

Text table 2. Tobacco products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1977

1980

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

70,940

63,600

62,060

-12.5

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

3,360

3,780

'2,470

-26.5

4,680
490
6,550
52,450
3,410

3,600
760
6,960
46,270
2,230

4,220
3,020
4,500
45,870
1,930

-9.8
516.3
-31.3
-12.5
-43.4

1 A significant portion of the decline may be due to changes in the coding
structure rather than to actual changes in establishment staffing patterns. See

footnote 1 to text table 1.

12

Table 5. Tobacco products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected occupations,
June 1983
(SIC 21)

Occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

_

T o ta l....................................................................................

62,060

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

2,470
150

3.98
.24

n.a.
6

n.a.
19

90
80
50
430
650
1,020

.15
.13
.08
.69
1.05
1.64

9
14
11
8
5
n.a.

17
11
8
22
80
n.a.

4,230
1,470

6.82
2.37

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

390
270
120

.63
.44
.19

n.a.
12
n.a.

n.a.
26
n.a.

510

.82

11

24

110

.18

8

14

240
220
780
80
240
460

.39
.35
1.26
.13
.39
.74

20
n.a.
n.a.
11
16
n.a.

15
n.a.
n.a.
12
12
n.a.

370
80

.60
.13

n.a.
13

n.a.
9

290
240

.47
.39

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

550

.89

n.a.

n.a.

360

.58

n.a.

n.a.

110

.18

12

16

350

.56

n.a.

n.a.

3,020

4.87

n.a.

n.a.

310
2,710

.50
4.37

13
n.a.

16
n.a.

4,510

7.27

n.a.

n.a.

360
880
120

.58
1.42
.19

19
15
11

27
54
16

90

.15

14

13

.21

8
11
8

13

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers,
farm products...........................................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers ............................................................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ....... ....................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................

130
70
420
210
80
850

See footnotes at end of table.

13

.11
.68
.34
.13

1.37

10
15

18

8
44
32

11
44

Table 5. Tobacco products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected occupations,
June 1983—Continued
(SIC 21)

Occupation

Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
Ail other office machine operators ..........................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service workers .............................................................

Employment1

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

270

0.44

n.a.

n.a.

90
120
60

.15
.19
.10

10
11
n.a.

13
16
n.a.

610

.98

n.a.

n.a.

100

.16

12

12

240

.39

8

29

190

.31

7

31

80

.13

n.a.

n.a.

420

.68

n.a.

n.a.

1,930

3.11

n.a.

n.a.

90
460

.15
.74

12
5

11
24

1,280

2.06

n.a.

n.a.

1,180

1.90

9

39

100
100

.16
.16

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

40

.06

n.a.

n.a.

45,860

73.90

n.a.

n.a.

3,500

5.64

n.a.

n.a.

620

1.00

11

25

2,730

4.40

11

51

60

.10

19

7

90
740

.15
1.19

18
8

8
6

2,510
6,060
3,780
280
1,000
440
50

4.04
9.76
6.09
.45
1.61
.71
.08

13
n.a.
13
9
15
8
9

26
n.a.
36
7
16
37
10

80
230
200

.13
.37
.32

12
14
n.a.

6
6
n.a.

950

1.53

n.a.

n.a.

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ......................... ..................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers.............. ..........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics..............................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers.......................................................
Precision instrument repairers.................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers.......................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving.......................................................................................

Percent of total
employment

See footnotes at end of table.

14

Table 5. Tobacco products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected occupations,
June 1983—Continued
(SIC 21)

Occupation

Employment1

Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians...................................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................

Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers............................................
Precision food workers.................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Cooking machine operators and tenders,
food and tobacco....................................................................
Roasting, baking, and drying machine
operators and tenders, food and
tobacco .....................................................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

100
540

0.16
.87

11
9

8
23

250
60
960
660
190
110
630

.40
.10
1.55
1.06
.31
.18
1.02

5
n.a.
n.a.
7
5
n.a.
n.a.

11
n.a.
n.a.
16
9
n.a.
n.a.

16,400

26.43

n.a.

n.a.

70

.11

19

6

250

.40

17

19

150

.24

11

15

340

.55

12

24

110

.18

21

7

330

.53

16

21

6,680

10.76

10

33

40

.06

n.a.

n.a.

8,430
280
210

13.58
.45
.34

n.a.
19
n.a.

n.a.
14
n.a.

210

.34

12

21

190
1,650
1,590
60
140
430
1,500
320

.31
2.66
2.56
.10
.23
.69
2.42
.52

n.a.
n.a.
14
22
17
13
13
13

n.a.
n.a.
34
4
7
15
22
21

9,260

14.92

n.a.

n.a.

130

.21

n.a.

n.a.

Separating, filtering, clarifying,
precipitating, and still machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
Packaging and filling machine operators
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
traile r.........................................................................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................

Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................
All other production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

15

Textile Mill Products

increased despite the overall employment decline.
Changes since 1977 are summarized in text table 3.
As shown in table 6, the 605,450 production and
related workers in the textile mill products industry ac­
counted for more than four-fifths o f total industry
employment. Clerical workers made up 8 percent. The
remaining employment was distributed as follows:
Managerial and administrative workers, 3.5 percent;
professional, paraprofessional, and technical workers, 3
percent; service workers, 2 percent; and sales workers, 1
percent.
The five most populous occupations in the manufac­
turing o f textile mill products are listed in the tabulation
below:

Establishments in this industry perform any o f the
following operations: (1) Preparing fiber and subse­
quently manufacturing yarn, thread, braid, twine, and
cordage; (2) manufacturing broad woven fabric, narrow
woven fabric, knit fabric, and carpets and rugs from
yarn; (3) dyeing and finishing fiber, yarn, fabric, and
knit apparel; (4) coating, waterproofing, or otherwise
treating fabric; (5) the integrated manufacturing o f knit
apparel and other finished articles from yarn; and (6)
the manufacturing o f felt goods, lace goods, nonwoven
fabrics, and miscellaneous textiles. These establish­
ments employed 731,690 workers, accounting for 4 per­
cent o f manufacturing and 10 percent o f nondurable
goods employment in 1983. The three largest employers
o f these workers were: Knitting mills, with 27 percent o f
industry employment; cotton broad woven fabric mills,
17 percent; and yarn and thread mills, with 15 percent.
Total employment in the textile industry fell by
almost 140,000, or 16 percent, between 1980 and 1983.
Employment o f service workers fell 28 percent, clerical
workers 23 percent, and production workers, 15 per­
cent. Even the more highly skilled occupational groups
were not exempt from labor force reductions; employ­
ment o f managerial and administrative workers declined
20 percent, and the number of professional and
technical employees declined by 11 percent. As in other
manufacturing industries, the number o f sales workers

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

191,100

26.1

51,730

7.1

44,120

6.0

31,470

4.3

25,880

3.5

Textile machine operators and
tenders, winding, twisting,
weaving, knitting, etc...................
Sewing machine operators,
garm ent........................................
Textile machine setters and
setup operators............................
Production inspectors, testers,
graders, sorters, samplers, and
weighers........................................
First-line supervisors,
production....................................

Text table 3. Textile mill products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

Percent change
1977-83

1977

1980

1983

T o ta l..............................................................

913,700

870,780

731,690

-19.9

Managerial and administrative workers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rke rs...................................................

28,340

31,980

25,460

-10.2

22,680
7,550
73,380
764,090
17,660

22,460
7,040
76,780
713,410
19,110

19,940
17,700
58,940
605,450
13,780

-12.1
2.0
-19.7
-20.8
-22.0

1 Includes 1,270 employees in the occupation “first-line supervisor— sales” which would have been included with managerial employment

in previous surveys,

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Table 6. Textile mill products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983
(SIC 22)

Occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

731,600

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

25,450
1,560

3.48
.21

n.a.
5

n.a.
18

1,530
620

.21
.08

4
4

22
11

1,110
770
4,610
12,180
3,070

.15
.11
.63
1.66
.42

8
11
4
2
5

10
9
25
83
15

19,930
5,670

2.72
.78

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

2,590
2,180
180
230

.35
.30
.02
.03

n.a.
5
12
13

n.a.
23
2
2

730

.10

5

11

840
460
1,050
3,740
350
2,090
140
890
270

.11
.06
.14
.51
.05
.29
.02
.12
.04

5
15
9
n.a.
12
5
8
6
13

11
5
4
n.a.
3
18
3
10
2

2,060

.28

n.a.

n.a.

1,300

.18

5

11

210
180

.03
.02

16
8

2
3

370
760

.05
.10

13
n.a.

2
n.a.

2,760

.38

n.a.

n.a.

2,480

.34

6

10

280

.04

32

1

2,240

.31

n.a.

n.a.

880
970

.12
.13

11
8

6
8

390

.05

n.a.

n.a.

490

.07

9

3

640
750

.09
.10

4
10

10
6

820

.11

n.a.

n.a.

7,700

1.05

n.a.

n.a.

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts .......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers ........................................................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters.........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h e alth..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
All other computer systems analysts,
programmers, and programmer aides ..................................
Teachers and instructors, vocational education
and training .................................................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................

See footnotes at end of table.

17

Table 6. Textile mill products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 22)

Occupation

First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service...........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
d is p a tc h in g , a n d d is trib u tin g w o r k e r s ..................................................

Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Marking clerks.............................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.......................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners..................................................
Elevator operators.....................................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households ....................................
All other service workers ............................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,270

0.17

9

6

1,230

.17

13

6

4,480
720

.61
.10

9
n.a.

21
n.a.

58,950

8.06

n.a.

n.a.

2,920
6,860
230
720
910
200

.40
.94
.03
.10
.12
.03

6
3
15
5
8
17

18
54
2
13
7
2

1,110
410

.15
.06

4
10

17
4

2,230
560
400
4,390
2,140
1,720
8,230

.30
.08
.05
.60
.29
.24
1.12

8
6
11
4
4
6
4

12
8
3
46
24
14
46

3,690

.50

n.a.

n.a.

570

.08

13

4

1,050
90
1,820
160
790

.14
.01
.25
.02
.11

7
19
5
25
3

10
1
12
1
15

19,900

2.72

3,770

.52

5

21

1,850
390

.25
.05

7
17

9
2

4,140

.57

4

32

8,490

1.16

3

55

1,260

.17

16

5

1,540

.21

12

5

13,790

1.88

n.a.

n.a.

960
2,420

.13
.33

11
4

5
14

150

.02

16

1

8,930

1.22

n.a.

n.a.

6,990
320

.96
.04

3
14

43
2

1,620
1,330

.22
.18

15
16

4
2

See footnotes at end of table.

18

n .a .

n .a .

Table 6. Textile mill products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 22)

Occupation

Employment'

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders ................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers ..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, textile
machines ...............................................................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, sewing
machines ...............................................................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, water or
power generation plant........................................................
All other machinery maintenance mechanics......................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers........................................................
Menders - garments, linens, and related................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders ....................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision textile, apparel, and furnishings
workers.......................................................................................
Fabric and apparel patternmakers, and layout
workers .....................................................................................
Custom tailors and sewers .......................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

400
400

0.05
.05

n.a.
7

n.a.
5

605,380

82.75

n.a.

n.a.

29,870

4.08

n.a.

n.a.

1,720

.24

7

14

520

.07

23

1

25,880

3.54

3

64

710

.10

18

5

1,040
2,540

.14
.35

10
9

6
7

31,470
45,780
28,330

4.30
6.26
3.87

3
n.a.
n.a.

44
n.a.
n.a.

24,520

3.35

3

43

1,970

.27

7

12

320
1,520
1,100
2,420
8,050
160

.04
.21
.15
.33
1.10
.02

13
10
9
7
4
11

2
5
4
10
35
2

150

.02

11

2

1,140
3,680
750

.16
.50
.10

5
11
24

9
5
2

5,670
1,030
3,530

.78
.14
.48

n.a.
8
3

n.a.
11
22

380

.05

7

5

530
200
1,750
1,420

.07
.03
.24
.19

6
14
n.a.
5

6
2
n.a.
10

210
120

.03
.02

19
46

1
1

6,830

.93

n.a.

n.a.

820
160

.11
.02

18
43

5
1

See footnotes at end of table.

19

Table 6. Textile mill products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 22)

Occupation

Pressers, delicate fabrics..........................................................
Precision d y ers...........................................................................
All other precision textile, apparel, and
furnishings workers..................................................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters.............................................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators......................................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators......................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders............................................
Textile machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Textile machine operators and tenders winding, twisting, knitting, weaving.
and cutting................................................................................
Extruding and forming machine operators and
tenders, synthetic or glass fib ers..........................................
Textile draw-out machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Sewing machine operators, garm ent.......................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment................................
Laundry and drycleaning machine operators and
tenders, except pressing........................................................
Pressing machine operators and tenders,
textile, garment, and
related materials......................................................................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders ............................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders............................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders.............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic.....................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic.......................................................
Other hand workers, n e c ............................................................
Pressers, hand...........................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

250
1,770

0.03
.24

38
12

(3)
5

3,830
280

.52
.04

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

190
90

.03
.01

22
43

1
(3)

480

.07

n.a.

n.a.

366,790

50.14

n.a.

n.a.

1,000

.14

16

2

2,290

.31

9

5

680

.09

21

1

1,340

.18

12

4

760

.10

16

1

44,120

6.03

4

39

191,100

26.12

1

61

3,460

.47

11

3

13,860

1.89

7

12

21,260
51,730
8,430

2.91
7.07
1.15

5
3
9

22
19
13

500

.07

15

2

2,920

.40

13

6

1,420

.19

16

3

1,160

.16

6

7

1,040

.14

11

5

2,050

.28

12

5

740

.10

19

1

1,230

.17

12

2

160

.02

22

1

310

.04

19

1

1,820

.25

8

6

120

.02

20

3,510

.48

10

9

820

.11

19

1

8,960
16,970
1,100

1.22
2.32
.15

n.a.
n.a.
20

n.a.
n.a.
3

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6. Textile mill products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 22)

Occupation

Employment1

Sewers, ha n d ..............................................................................
Cutters and trimmers, h a n d ......................................................
Portable machine cutters..........................................................
Carpet cutters, diagrammers, and
seam ers....................................................................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, ne c......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Water and liquid waste treatment plant and
system operators.....................................................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators.....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

2,180
1,770
2,000

0.30
.24
.27

17
13
10

5
5
9

610

.08

22

1

1,590
7,720
1,560

.22
1.06
.21

18
n.a.
n.a.

2
n.a.
n.a.

350
170
1,040
2,790

.05
.02
.14
.38

15
12
30
n.a.

3
1
1
n.a.

1,960

.27

8

10

720
110

.10
.02

6
14

10
1

80
10,530
9,530
510

.01
1.44
1.30
.07

17
n.a.
4
15

1
n.a.
26
2

490
2,110

.07
.29

17
12

1
5

230
16,640
15,730
13,800

.03
2.27
2.15
1.89

15
5
4
7

1
18
28
27

33,480

4.58

5

22

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other" categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE; Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

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Apparel and Other Textile
Products

Establishments which manufacture apparel and tex­
tile house furnishings employed over 1.1 million
workers, or 6 percent o f manufacturing and 15 percent
o f nondurable goods employment in 1983. One-third o f
the industry’s employees produced women’s, misses’,
and juniors’ outerwear; 28 percent produced men’s and
boys’ furnishings, work clothing, and allied garments;
and 15 percent manufactured miscellaneous fabricated
textile products.

shows the employment change by major group between
1977 and 1983.
The five most populous occupations in the industry
are listed below. These production occupations ac­
counted for more than half o f total industry employ­
ment.

As shown in table 7, approximately 960,000 produc­
tion and related workers were employed in the manufac­
ture o f apparel and other textile products, accounting
for 84 percent o f total industry employment. Clerical
workers ranked second with 9 percent. Managerial and
administrative workers accounted for 3 percent; profes­
sional, paraprofessional, and technical workers, 2 per­
cent; sales workers, 2 percent; and service workers, 1
percent o f total industry employment. Text table 4

Sewing machine operators,
garment ......................................
Sewing machine operators,
nongarment................................
Production inspectors, testers,
graders, sorters, samplers,
and weighers ..............................
First-line supervisors,
production..................................
Pressing machine operators
and tenders—textile,
garment, etc.................................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

568,500

49.8

56,990

5.0

36,690

3.2

30,800

2.7

30,560

2.7

Text table 4. Apparel and other textile products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1980

1977

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,318,700

1,271,360

1,141,100

-13.5

Managerial and administrative workers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers.........................
Service w o rke rs...................................................

45,010

45,820

’35,430

-21.3

15,530
18,570
116,890
1,105,630
17,070

17,750
18,420
116,190
1,057,890
15,290

17,400
19,100
98,130
957,550
13,280

12.0
2.9
-16.0
-13.4
-22.2

’ A significant portion of the decline may be due to changes in the coding
structure rather than to actual changes in establishment staffing patterns.

See footnote 1 to text table 1.

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Table 7. Apparel and other textile products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983
(SIC 23)

Occupation

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l.....................................................................................

1,140,970

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers........................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers ..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

35,440
1,620

3.11
.14

n.a.
6

n.a.
9

1,080
700

.09
.06

4
5

8
5

1,120
820
3,800
24,290
2,010

.10
.07
.33
2.13
.18

8
6
4
2
6

5
4
16
75
6

17,400
5,730

1.53
.50

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

1,750
1,220
160
370

.15
.11
.01
.03

n.a.
7
14
34

n.a.
6
1
1

930

.08

6

6

730
500
1,820
2,090
1,600
270
220

.06
.04
.16
.18
.14
.02
.02

12
6
36
n.a.
5
8
n.a.

4
3
2
n.a.
8
2
n.a.

950

.08

n.a.

n.a.

640
130

.06
.01

5
15

4
1

180

.02

n.a.

n.a.

1,940

.17

n.a.

n.a.

680
860

.06
.08

27
7

2
4

400

.04

n.a.

n.a.

700
5,500

.06
.48

9
5

2
15

490

.04

n.a.

n.a.

19,090

1.67

n.a.

n.a.

1,400

.12

9

4

2,160

.19

9

5

12,030
3,500

1.05
.31

4
n.a.

17
n.a.

98,130

8.60

n.a.

n.a.

3,000
8,790

.26
.77

3
3

13
35

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers ........................................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety ..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters.........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers ......................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
All other computer systems analysts,
programmers, and programmer aides ..................................
Teachers and instructors, vocational education
and training ..................................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries......................................................................................

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 7. Apparel and other textile products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 23)

Occupation

Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists.............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks........................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators.................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Marking clerks.............................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
w orkers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households.....................................
All other service w orkers............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ..........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers ....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers..........................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

190
1,050
860
240

0.02
.09
.08
.02

9
4
9
16

1
7
3
1

790
690

.07
.06

4
6

6
3

2,780
550
180
12,310
6,050
1,660
14,390

.24
.05
.02
1.08
.53
.15
1.26

6
7
9
3
2
6
3

7
3
1
41
31
6
37

4,360

.38

n.a.

n.a.

730

.06

8

3

1,350
130
1,990
160
790

.12
.01
.17
.01
.07

7
14
4
11
4

6
1
6
1
7

38,160

3.34

n.a.

n.a.

3,260

.29

5

9

1,110
1,430

.10
.13

11
7

2
4

7,990

.70

4

21

22,790

2.00

4

44

1,580

.14

8

3

1,290

.11

11

2

13,280

1.16

n.a.

n.a.

1,480
1,190

.13
.10

6
6

3
4

160

.01

10

1

9,930

.87

n.a.

n.a.

9,260

.81

2

37

670
520

.06
.05

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

120
120

.01
.01

n.a.
8

n.a.
1

957,510

83.92

n.a.

n.a.

33,820

2.96

n.a.

n.a.

970

.09

See footnotes at end of table.

24

5

6

Table 7. Apparel and other textile products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 23)

Occupation

First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers.........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders ................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, textile
machines ................................................................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, sewing
machines ...............................................................................
All other machinery maintenance mechanics......................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Menders - garments, linens, and related................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving.........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians...................................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters................................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Machinists ....................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders ....................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision textile, apparel, and furnishings
workers.......................................................................................
Fabric and apparel patternmakers, and layout
workers ......................................................................................
Custom tailors and sewers .......................................................
Shoe and leather workers and repairers,
precision....................................................................................
Pressers, delicate fabrics..........................................................
Precision dyers ...........................................................................
All other precision textile, apparel, and
furnishings workers..................................................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters .............................................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

180

0.02

16

(3)

30,800

2.70

2

59

410

.04

10

2

1,460
2,760

.13
.24

7
7

3
3

36,690
17,730
11,120

3.22
1.55
.97

2
n.a.
n.a.

37
n.a.
n.a.

1,080

.09

5

3

9,600
440
260
330
2,630
2,260
1,130

.84
.04
.02
.03
.23
.20
.10

2
n.a.
26
12
3
6
n.a.

32
n.a.
(3)
1
13
5
n.a.

1,010
210
380

.09
.02
.03

n.a.
9
15

n.a.
1
1

130
290
710
220

.01
.03
.06
.02

22
n.a.
n.a.
11

(3)
n.a.
n.a.
1

140
350

.01
.03

42
19

27,070

2.37

n.a.

n.a.

10,870
10,160

.95
.89

4
9

24
7

720
1,690
150

.06
.15
.01

30
10
25

(3)
1
(3)

3,480
310

.31
.03

11
n.a.

2
n.a.

180
130

.02
.01

19
23

1
(3)

1,280

.11

n.a.

n.a.

470

.04

24

810

.07

n.a.

680

.06

26

683,750

59.93

n.a.

n.a.

550

.05

14

1

1,810

.16

11

2

See footnotes at end of table.

25

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(3)

(3)
n.a.
(3)

Table 7. Apparel and other textile products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983—Continued

I
_________ i
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ....................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders.................................................................................... |
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders ...........................................
Textile machine setters and set-up
operators.................................................................................
Textile machine operators and tenders winding, twisting, knitting, weaving,
and cutting..............................................................................
Extruding and forming machine operators ard
tenders, synthetic or glass fibers.........................................
Textile draw-out machine operators
and tenders ............................................................................
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine
operators and tenders ..........................................................
Sewing machine operators, garment......................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment ...............................
Shoe sewing machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Laundry and drycleaning machine operators and
tenders, except pressing .......................................................
Pressing machine operators and tenders,
textile, garment, and
related materials....................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators.............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders....................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators................. ...............................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ..........................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders....................................................................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic.....................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ......................................................
Other hand workers, nec ...........................................................
Pressers, hand..........................................................................
Sewers, hand ............................................................................
Cutters and trimmers, hand .....................................................
Portable machine cutters ........................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ........................................................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision......................................
All other hand workers, nec.....................................................

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of total
employment

Employment'

Occupation

. . ......... .

1

340

0.03

22

1

600

.05

14

1

370

.03

25

0

1
.11

13

2

8,400

.74

7

7

320

.03

38

0

150

.01

26

0

770
568,500
56,990

.07
49.83
4.99

36
1
3

0
69
21

460

.04

40

O

680

.06

16

1

30,560

2.68

2

27

2,360

.21

7

5

2,300

.20

7

4

1,200

Motor vehicle operators ............................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers ........................................................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators ..................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators......................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators....................................
Conveyor operators and tenders ...........................................
All other material moving equipment
operators................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ..........................................
Machine feeders and offbearers...............................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand..............................
Hand packers and packagers ...................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, hand...........................................................................

I
|

120

.01

21

0

210

.02

28

(3)

630

.06

13

1

1,810

.16

10

2

1,280

.11

n.a.

n.a.

2,660
78,140
14,570
8,680
22,570
14,960

.23
6.85
1.28
.76
1.98
1.31

n.a.
n.a.
3
7
3
3

n.a.
n.a.
20
10
28
28

140

.01

23

(3)

6,980
10,240
610
1,340

.61
.90
.05
.12

11
n.a.

4
n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

1,340

.12

6

7

1,140
2,230
1,670
280

.10
.20
.15
.02

n.a.
n.a.
9
12

n.a.
n.a.

280
460
3,700
19,730
19,430

.02
.04
.32
1.73
1.70

16
9
6
3
3

25,600

2.24

n.a.

3

1
0
2
5

24
23
n.a.
-

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26

E s tim a te d

Lumber and Wood Products,
Except Furniture

respectively. Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
workers accounted for 10 percent. Each o f the following
groups accounted for 2 percent o f industry employ­
ment: Professional, paraprofessional, and technical
workers; sales workers; and service workers.
The five most populous occupations in the industry
are listed in the tabulation below:

Establishments in this industry include logging
camps, sawmills, lath mills, shingle mills, cooperage
stock mills, planing mills, plywood and veneer mills,
and establishments manufacturing certain finished ar­
ticles made entirely or mainly of wood or wood
substitutes. These establishments employed 645,130
workers, or only 4 percent o f manufacturing and 6 per­
cent o f durable goods employment in 1983. Sawmills
and planing mills accounted for 30 percent of industry
employment; establishments manufacturing fabricated
millwork, veneer, plywood, and structural wood
members, 30 percent; and logging camps and logging
contractors, 12 percent. Text table 5 shows employment
since 1977 for the major occupational groups in the
lumber and wood products industry.
The 469,820 production and related workers in the
lumber and wood products industry accounted for
almost three-quarters o f total industry employment
(table 8). Clerical workers and managerial and ad­
ministrative workers accounted for 7 and 5 percent,

Machine feeders and
offbearers....................................
Sawing machine operators and
tenders........................................
Assemblers and fabricators,
except machine, electrical,
electronic, and precision............
Truckdrivers, heavy or tractor
trailer..........................................
Cabinetmakers and bench
carpenters....................................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

47,530

7.4

32,690

5.1

32,370

5.0

27,040

4.2

25,410

3.9

Text table 5. Lumber and wood products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

Percent change
1977-83

1977

1980

1983

T o ta l..............................................................

714,360

657,270

645,130

-9.7

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

34,630

41,070

30,240

-12.7

17,060
9,670
42,560
597,170
13,270

14,980
11,060
41,920
534,720
13,520

13,360
'12,270
42,540
2536,060
10,660

-21.7
26.9
-0.1
-10.2
-19.7

1 Includes 915 employees in the occupation "first-line supervisor— sales”
which would have been included with managerial employment in previous
surveys.

2 Includes 66,240 agriculture, forestry, and fishing workers who would have
been classified as production and related workers in previous surveys,

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Table 8. Lumber and wood products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983
(SIC 24)

Occupation

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

645,130

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

30,230
1,060

4.69
.16

n.a.
4

n.a.
4

720
700

.11
.11

4
4

3
4

950
460
2,460
22,340
1,540

.15
.07
.38
3.46
.24

5
7
4
1
9

3
2
6
64
3

13,360
6,380

2.07
.99

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

3,560
3,330
70
160

.55
.52
.01
.02

n.a.
3
12
15

n.a.
13
(3)
(3)

1,180

.18

4

5

350
540
750
1,560
570
470
520

.05
.08
.12
.24
.09
.07
.08

8
6
23
n.a.
14
9
n.a.

1
2
1
n.a.
2
2
n.a.

2,060

.32

n.a.

n.a.

140
1,620

.02
.25

11
5

(3)
4

80

.01

19

(3)

220
850
760
90

.03
.13
.12
.01

n.a.
n.a.
8
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.
1
n.a.

410

.06

n.a.

n.a.

1,280

.20

n.a.

n.a.

400
590
290

.06
.09
.04

17
14
20

1
1
1

80
150

.01
.02

9
16

590

.09

n.a.

n.a.

12,270

1.90

n.a.

n.a.

920

.14

6

2

2,440

.38

4

6

7,960

1.23

2

18

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers.......................................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
Surveying and mapping technicians and
technologists............................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Life scientists.................................................................................
Foresters and conservation scientists.....................................
All other life scientists ...............................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail.......................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail...................................

See footnotes at end of table.

28

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Table 8. Lumber and wood products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 24)

Occupation

Employment1

Service occupations.........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service workers .............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
First line supervisors-agricultural, forestry,
fishing, and related workers......................................................
Fallers and buckers......................................................................
Choke setters................................................................................
Log handling equipment operators.............................................
Logging tractor operators.............................................................
All other timber cutting and related logging
workers.........................................................................................

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

950

0.15

16

2

42,550

6.60

n.a.

n.a.

1,050
10,460
70
460
210
200

.16
1.62
.01
.07
.03
.03

6
2
19
4
9
20

3
36
(3)
2
1
(3)

400
260

.06
.04

5
11

2
1

650
270
9,340
660
660
7,620

.10
.04
1.45
.10
.10
1.18

6
5
2
3
4
2

2
1
36
4
2
25

1,140

.18

n.a.

n.a.

130

.02

10

(3)

330
570
110
420

.05
.09
.02
.07

6
5
26
4

1
2
(3)
2

8,270

1.28

n.a.

n.a.

900

.14

5

2

670

.10 -

6

1

1,140

.18

5

3

5,310

.82

2

18

250

.04

13

1

410

.06

26

1

10,670

1.65

n.a.

n.a.

320
4,200

.05
.65

12
2

1
9

140

.02

13

5,870

.91

n.a.

n.a.

5,640

.87

2

18

230
140

.04
.02

9
14

1
(3)

66,240

10.27

n.a.

n.a.

4,260
18,270
5,480
10,970
18,920

.66
2.83
.85
1.70
2.93

3
2
3
2
2

10
22
6
23
25

2,380

.37

6

3

All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations..................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists.............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping..................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service............................................................. .............................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks..........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ...........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd ..............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks..........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers.........................................................................................

Percent of total
employment

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 8. Lumber and wood products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 24)

Occupation

Forest and conservation workers ...............................................
Nursery workers............................................................................
Log graders and scalers..............................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
All other agriculture, forestry, fishing, and
related workers...........................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers ......................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except
engines......................................................................................
Installers and repairers, manufactured
buildings, mobile homes, and travel trailers ........................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers................................................................
Pattern and model makers, w o od ............................................
Pattern markers, wood .............................................................
Wood machinists.......................................................................
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters ...................................
Furniture finishers......................................................................
All other precision woodworkers.............................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,530
250
3,700
200

0.24
.04
.57
.03

8
18
3
16

1
(3)
12
(3)

280

.04

21

(3)

469,810

72.82

n.a.

n.a.

23,960

3.71

n.a.

n.a.

1,190

.18

4

3

420

.07

11

1

20,860

3.23

1

40

580

.09

5

2

910
440

.14
.07

8
10

2
1

13,150
31,700
6,220
2,410
3,140
11,760
970

2.04
4.91
.96
.37
.49
1.82
.15

2
n.a.
3
6
3
2
5

17
n.a.
12
2
9
25
3

910

.14

5

2

1,920

.30

5

4

3,580
790

.55
.12

12
8

1
1

29,010
21,390
3,420

4.50
3.32
.53

n.a.
3
3

n.a.
11
5

530

.08

12

1

1,140
2,530
3,140
80
700

.18
.39
.49
.01
.11

6
13
n.a.
17
5

2
1
n.a.
(3)
2

1,870
380
110
44,830
350
230
16,660
25,410
740
1,440

.29
.06
.02
6.95
.05
.04
2.58
3.94
.11
.22

4
18
23
n.a.
17
15
3
3
11
17

4
(3)
(3)
n.a.
1
(3)
14
15
1
1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 8. Lumber and wood products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 24)

Occupation

Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters..............................................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Welding machine setters and
set-up operators........................................................................
Welding machine operators and tenders................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Sawing machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Head sawyers.............................................................................
Sawing machine operators and tenders.................................
Woodworking machine setters and set-up
operators, except sawing .......................................................
Woodworking machine operators and tenders,
except sawing..........................................................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment ................................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders ............................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Glaziers, manufacturing.............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Cutters and trimmers, h a n d ......................................................
Carpet cutters, diagrammers, and
seam ers....................................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

740

0.11

n.a.

n.a.

90
650

.01
.10

25
26

(3)
0

2,450

.38

n.a.

170

.03

14

0

700

.11

14

(3)

140

.02

17

(3)

80

.01

18

(3)

540

.08

18

(3)

120

.02

23

(3)

320
200

.05
.03

16
14

(3)
(3)

180

.03

n.a.

n.a.

390

.06

n.a.

n.a.

114,620

17.77

n.a.

n.a.

6,500
6,180
32,690

1.01
.96
5.07

3
2
1

13
20
34

12,090

1.87

3

16

22,340
300

3.46
.05

2
30

18
(3)

4,080

.63

3

8

2,020

.31

4

3

170

.03

16

920

.14

7

2

2,460

.38

5

5

5,370

.83

4

7

7,850

1.22

4

6

850

.13

6

2

430

.07

19

1,600

.25

12

1

2,200

.34

5

3

780

.12

n.a.

n.a.

5,400
39,690
880
1,010
190

.84
6.15
.14
.16
.03

n.a.
n.a.
13
6
16

n.a.
n.a.
1
2
(3)

210

.03

12

See footnotes at end of table.

31

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Table 8. Lumber and wood products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 24)

Occupation

Employment1

Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ..........................................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, h a n d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, n e c ......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators.....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Grader, dozer, and scraper operators.....................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders.............................................
Pump operators..........................................................................
Operating engineers...................................................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................
All other production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

930
1,940

0.14
.30

11
8

1
1

32,370
2,160
420
28,320

5.02
.33
.07
4.39

4
n.a.
22
n.a.

8
n.a.
O
n.a.

27,040

4.19

1

48

1,000
280

.16
.04

7
15

2
(3)

230
27,970
740
2,370
20,940
1,400
430
370

.04
4.34
.11
.37
3.25
.22
.07
.06

14
n.a.
7
4
1
7
37
11

(3)
n.a.
1
4
31
1
(3)
1

1,720
660

.27
.10

6
7

2
1

5,300
47,530
16,550
8,850

.82
7.37
2.57
1.37

6
2
3
3

4
25
17
10

30,140

4.67

3

9

110

.02

n.a.

n.a.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

32

Furniture and Fixtures

workers, 3 percent; and service workers, 1 percent of
total industry employment.
The five most populous occupations in the manufac­
turing of furniture and fixtures are listed below:

Establishments which manufacture household, of­
fice, public building, and restaurant furniture, and of­
fice and store fixtures employed 439,250 worker^ in
1983, accounting for 2 percent o f manufacturing and 4
percent o f durable goods employment. Establishments
manufacturing household furniture employed 63 per­
cent o f the industry’s workers; those manufacturing
partitions, shelving, lockers, and office and store fix­
tures, 13 percent; and those manufacturing office fur­
niture, 12 percent. Employment since 1977 by occupa­
tional group is given in text table 6.
As shown in table 9, the 350,090 production and
related workers accounted for more than three-fourths
o f total industry employment. Clerical workers ranked
second with 9 percent. Managerial and administrative
workers accounted for 4 percent; sales workers, 3 per­
cent; professional, paraprofessional, and technical

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

56,680
22,450

12.9
5.1

19,300

4.4

19,150

4.4

16,980

3.9

Assemblers and fabricators,
except machine, electrical,
electronic, and precision..........
Upholsterers................................
Sewing machine operators,
nongarment..............................
Cabinetmakers and bench
carpenters..................................
First-line supervisors,
production................................

Text table 6. Furniture and fixtures: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

Percent change
1977-83

1977

1980

1983

T o ta l..............................................................

462,660

455,830

439,250

-5.1

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

19,500

24,300

19,690

1.0

12,200
10,060
43,190
369,780
7,930

13,810
10,470
50,490
348,250
8,510

11,090
’12,430
39,600
350,090
6,230

-9.1
23.6
-8.3
-5 .3
-21.4

1 Includes 906 employees in the occupation “first-line supervisor— sales”
which would have been included with managerial employment in previous

surveys,

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Table 9. Furniture and fixtures: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983
( S IC 2 5 )

Occupation

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l.....................................................................................

439,230

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers........................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.......................... ...........................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers ..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

19,700
1,060

4.49
.24

n.a.
4

n.a.
12

690
640

.16
.15

4
4

10
10

1,150
410
1,750
12,540
1,460

.26
.09
.40
2.85
.33

5
7
5
2
9

9
5
13
82
7

11,080
4,110

2.52
.94

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

1,890
1,670
60
160

.43
.38
.01
.04

n.a.
4
12
10

n.a.
19
1
2

980

.22

3

13

380
460
400
2,120
1,120
70
590
340

.09
.10
.09
.48
.25
.02
.13
.08

8
5
12
n.a.
7
10
6
12

4
6
2
n.a.
8
1
5
2

2,510

.57

n.a.

n.a.

330

.08

8

3

80
1,870

.02
.43

16
4

1
12

230

.05

n.a.

n.a.

1,250

.28

n.a.

n.a.

440
580
230

.10
.13
.05

9
7
8

4
6
3

180
570
110

.04
.13
.03

9
12
15

2
4
1

230

.05

n.a.

n.a.

12,440

2.83

n.a.

n.a.

910

.21

14

5

2,300

.52

8

10

8,250
980

1.88

4

29

.2 2

12

3

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
Interior designers ..........................................................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail.......................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail...................................
All other sales and related workers ..........................................

See footnotes at end of table.

34

Table 9. Furniture and fixtures: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 25)

Occupation

Clerical and administrative support
occupations..................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support w orkers...........................
Secretaries......................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists.............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service...........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators....................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks..........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks..........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
w orkers.........................................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

39,590

9.01

n.a.

n.a.

1,080
6,180
290
480
530
100

.25
1.41
.07
.11
.12
.02

8
2
22
5
9
13

8
52
2
7
4
1

490
300

.11
.07

5
6

7
4

1,750
470
4,920
980
910
6,340

.40
.11
1.12
.22
.21
1.44

6
5
2
3
5
4

9
6
49
11
8
39

1,870

.43

n.a.

n.a.

120

.03

12

2

690
980
80
560

.16
.22
.02
.13

6
6
18
4

6
7
1
9

11,960

2.72

n.a.

n.a.

2,190

.50

10

10

160

.04

12

1

1,930

.44

8

9

7,330

1.67

4

45

350

.08

13

2

380

.09

14

2

6,230

1.42

n.a.

n.a.

m a n ag er/su p ervis o rs, service ............................................................

200

1,530

.05
.35

20

Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................

6

1
6

130

.03

19

1

4,290

.98

n.a.

n.a.

4,120

.94

3

34

170
80

.04
.02

12
23

1
(3)

120

.03

n.a.

n.a.

350,070

79.70

n.a.

n.a.

19,040

4.33

n.a.

n.a.

Service occupations ........................................................................
First-line supervisors and

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations..................................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................

See footnotes at end of table.

35

Table 9. Furniture and fixtures: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 25)

Occupation

First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders ................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders ....................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Pattern and model makers, w o od............................................
Pattern markers, wood ..............................................................
Wood machinists........................................................................
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters ....................................
Furniture finishers.......................................................................
All other precision woodworkers..............................................
Precision textile, apparel, and furnishings
workers.......................................................................................
Fabric and apparel patternmakers, and layout
workers .....................................................................................
Upholsterers...............................................................................
All other precision textile, apparel, and
furnishings workers.................................................................
Precision workers, n e c ................................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters............................................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ..............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic......................................................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic.....................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic....................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

850

0.19

15

140

.03

32

16,980

3.87

2

65

340

.08

7

4

730
530

.17
.12

10
14

3
2

6,070
7,510
1,430
210
400
4,660
120

1.38
1.71
.33
.05
.09
1.06
.03

4
n.a.
7
20
10
3
13

21
n.a.
6
1
3
32
1

220
470

.05
.11

17
n.a.

1
n.a.

3,700
2,560
660

.84
.58
.15

n.a.
7
8

n.a.
9
5

200

.05

18

1

130
150
4,250
1,270
750

.03
.03
.97
.29
.17

15
39
n.a.
12
8

1
1
n.a.
5
3

440
1,650
140
45,570
590
490
14,690
19,140
8,680
1,980

.10
.38
.03
10.37
.13
.11
3.34
4.36
1.98
.45

20
19
25
n.a.
9
13
7
3
7
17

3
2
1
n.a.
3
3
25
34
7
2

25,720

5.86

n.a.

n.a.

1,380
22,450

.31
5.11

11
4

3
25

1,890
650

.43
.15

16
n.a.

1
n.a.

190
460

.04
.10

21
20

1
1

24,030

5.47

n.a.

n.a.

1,080

.25

13

2

1,490

.34

11

2

See footnotes at end of table.

36

5

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Table 9. Furniture and fixtures: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 25)

Occupation

Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Shear and slitter machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Welding machine setters and
set-up operators........................................................................
Welding machine operators and tenders................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Sawing machine setters and set-up
operators....................................................................................
Head sawyers.............................................................................
Sawing machine operators and tenders.................................
Woodworking machine setters and set-up
operators, except sawing .......................................................
Woodworking machine operators and tenders,
except sawing..........................................................................
Textile machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Textile machine operators and tenders winding, twisting, knitting, weaving,
and cutting.................................................................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment................................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders ............................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders.......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders.......................................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,080

0.70

11

11

3,720

.85

8

11

660

.15

8

3

7,410

1.69

5

13

160

.04

11

1

550

.13

19

1

460

.10

17

1

2,220
2,320

.51
.53

12
13

4

280

.06

12

1

210

.05

15

1

390

.09

19

1

880

.20

19

1

79,220

18.04

n.a.

n.a.

1,610
280
11,840

.37
.06
2.70

10
28
4

5
1
26

7,860

1.79

6

17

14,070

3.20

5

20

230

.05

23

1

1,590
19,300

.36
4.39

9
4

6
29

320

.07

13

2

580

.13

9

3
1

2

210

.05

37

430

.10

19

1

3,870

.88

7

17

6,400

1.46

5

22

3,110

.71

6

15

130

.03

19

1

110

.03

31

480

.11

22

1

3,640

.83

5

13

400

.09

25

1

1,880
82,110

.43
18.69

14
n.a.

2
n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

37

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Table 9. Furniture and fixtures: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 25)

Occupation

Employment'

Glaziers, manufacturing.............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
Cutters and trimmers, h a n d ......................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ........................................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, han d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, n e c ...................... ................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers.................................. .........................................
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators.....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders.............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators....................................... ............................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)1
2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

260
2,830
160
4,950

0.06
.64
.04
1.13

19
7
27
5

1
5
1
17

4,390
6,800

1.00
1.55

9
7

9
12

56,680
6,040
50
7,330

12.90
1.38
.01
1.67

3
n.a.
19
n.a.

51
n.a.
1
n.a.

6,150

1.40

4

30

1,070
110

.24
.03

9
16

8
1

190
5,540
100
4,710
280

.04
1.26
.02
1.07
.06

19
n.a.
19
6
18

1
n.a.
1
19
1

450
480

.10
.11

n.a.
11

n.a.
2

210
7,080
10,240
6,860

.05
1.61
2.33
1.56

17
8
4
8

1
11
28
10

13,690

3.12

7

10

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

38

Paper and Allied Products

percent; and service workers, just under 1.5 percent.
Total employment in this industry declined 6 percent
between 1980 and 1983, as shown in text table 7.
The following tabulation lists the five most populous
occupations in the manufacturing o f paper and allied
products:

Establishments which manufacture paper and allied
products employed 653,480 workers, accounting for
nearly 4 percent o f manufacturing and 9 percent o f non­
durable goods employment in 1983. Establishments
manufacturing paper and paperboard into converted
products (except containers and boxes) employed nearly
one-third of the industry’s workers; those producing
paperboard containers and boxes, 29 percent; and paper
mills (except building paper mills), 26 percent.
The industry’s 484,860 production and related
workers accounted for nearly three-fourths o f total in­
dustry employment (table 10). Clerical workers ranked
second with 10 percent.
Professional, paraprofessional, and technical
workers constituted 6 percent; managerial and ad­
ministrative workers, 5 percent; sales workers, over 3

Paper goods machine setters
and setup operators..................
First-line supervisors,
production................................
Machine feeders and
offbearers..................................
Hand packers and packagers___
Industrial truck and tractor
operators...................................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

54,820

8.4

27,380

4.2

24,890
21,100

3.8
3.2

20,920

3.2

Text table 7. Paper and allied products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

Percent change
1977-83

1977

1980

1983

T o ta l..............................................................

686,140

698,910

653,480

-4.8

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

33,000

37,340

31,480

-4.6

28,660
15,480
65,730
531,640
11,630

40,690
16,540
73,240
519,530
11,570

41,250
'20,450
63,120
484,860
9,350

43.9
32.1
-4.0
-8.8
-19.6

1 Includes 1,850 employees in the occupation "first-line supervisor— sales” which would have been included with managerial employment

in previous surveys,

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Table 10. Paper and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983
(SIC 26)

Occupation

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l.....................................................................................

653,490

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers ..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

31,500
2,180

4.82
.33

n.a.
5

n.a.
26

1,750
910

.27
.14

7
4

23
15

2,520
960
4,880
13,800
4,500

.39
.15
.75
2.11
.69

6
8
4
3
6

19
10
30
88
15

41,230
12,110

6.31
1.85

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

5,030
4,180
330
520

.77
.64
.05
.08

n.a.
6
13
17

n.a.
36
4
3

2,540

.39

4

31

1,360
980
2,200
9,180
1,870
1,420
2,130
3,760

.21
.15
.34
1.40
.29
.22
.33
.58

8
4
19
n.a.
8
6
5
n.a.

12
13
7
n.a.
8
12
13
n.a.

3,710

.57

n.a.

n.a.

710

.11

16

4

220

.03

19

2

280
920

.04
.14

10
13

2
8

1,580
2,190
1,890
300
170

.24
.34
.29
.05
.03

18
n.a.
19
22
30

3
n.a.
6
2
1

4,130

.63

n.a.

n.a.

2,950

.45

17

6

1,180

.18

32

1

2,550

.39

n.a.

n.a.

1,130
980
440

.17
.15
.07

13
6
7

8
9
5

610
1,500

.09
.23

8
10

7
11

5,080

.78

n.a.

n.a.

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers.......................................................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Life scientists.................................................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h e alth ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing......................................................................
Computer programmers............................................................
Computer programmer aid es...................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers...........................................................................
Designers, except interior designers.........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers................................

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 10. Paper and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
( S IC 2 6 )

Occupation

Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries......................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks................... ......................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks..........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers.........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Log handling equipment operators.............................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

20,450

3.13

n.a.

n.a.

1,850

.28

6

14

2,990

.46

7

14

13,530
2,080

2.07
.32

2
8

52
10

63,140

9.66

n.a.

n.a.

2,490
11,630
750
760
1,250
410

.38
1.78
.11
.12
.19
.06

7
9
16
5
7
14

19
66
4
13
8
3

910
470

.14
.07

5
9

14
5

2,730
710
7,420
1,680
2,370
6,820

.42
.11
1.14
.26
.36
1.04

4
4
4
2
3

18
11
57
26
21
45

3,430

.52

n.a.

n.a.

350

.05

7

4

1,120
1,580
380
1,020

.17
.24
.06
.16

6
11
22
3

12
12
2
20

16,610

2.54

n.a.

n.a.

3,780

.58

4

27

890

.14

8

5

3,060

.47

5

18

8,080

1.24

2

60

800

.12

12

4

1,680

.26

21

6

9,340

1.43

n.a.

n.a.

650
1,800

.10
.28

9
7

4
7

6,180

.95

n.a.

n.a.

5,760

.88

4

44

420
710

.06

11

3

.11

n.a.

n.a.

2,970
1,540

.45
.24

n.a.
15

n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

41

7

2

Table 10. Paper and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 26)

Occupation

Employment'

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

270
290

0.04
.04

22
18

1
2

870

.13

20

1

484,860

74.20

n.a.

n.a.

34,920

5.34

n.a.

n.a.

4,050

.62

4

21

590

.09

36

2

27,380

4.19

2

80

1,310

.20

4

14

1,590
1,220

.24
.19

9
9

9
4

11,570
43,430
13,280

1.77
6.65
2.03

4
n.a.
n.a.

29
n.a.
n.a.

3,660
9,620
6,550
2,900
15,550
640

.56
1.47
1.00
.44
2.38
.10

10
6
5
5
5
8

11
17
7
11
47
4

520
2,440

.08
.37

10
8

4
6

100
230
1,220

.02
.04
.19

40
25
18

(3)
1
3

13,480
940
6,490

2.06
.14
.99

n.a.
6
4

n.a.
6
18

840

.13

6

5

3,900
1,310
4,970
1,090
2,900

.60
.20
.76
.17
.44

6
13
n.a.
6
8

6
2
n.a.
8
10

380
350
250
750

.06
.05
.04
.11

8
15
17
n.a.

3
1
1
n.a.

380
370
370

.06
.06
.06

10
14
n.a.

3
2
n.a.

Logging tractor operators.............................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
All other agriculture, forestry, fishing, and
related workers...........................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers................................ ........................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, water or
power generation plant........................................................
All other machinery maintenance mechanics......................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Mechanical control and valve installers and
repairers....................................................................................
Riggers.........................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Boilermakers...............................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision printing workers............................................................
Precision compositors, typesetters, and
arrangers..................................................................................
All other precision printing w orkers.........................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................

Percent of total
employment

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 10. Paper and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 26)

Occupation

Precision detail design decorators,
and painters .............................................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic........................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic......................................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Printing press machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Photoengraving and lithographing
photographers..........................................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders.......................................................................................
Photoengraving and lithographing machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Bindery machine operators.......................................................
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Paper goods machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure..............................................................................
Chemical equipment controllers and
operators....................................................................................
Chemical equipment tenders....................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders.......................................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)*

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

100
270

0.02
.04

19
17

1
2

3,430

.52

n.a.

n.a.

380

.06

20

1

260

.04

22

1

2,100

.32

12

3

340

.05

38

350

.05

n.a.

n.a.

780

.12

n.a.

n.a.

208,480

31.90

n.a.

n.a.

5,150

.79

5

12

520

.08

14

3

4,960

.76

6

11

680

.10

20

2

1,060

.16

10

3

16,660

2.55

3

35

460
780

.07
.12

11
13

3
3

1,410

.22

11

3

54,820

8.39

3

53

3,060

.47

6

8

2,650
2,320

.41
.36

7
10

5
4

5,350

.82

5

21

18,230

2.79

4

41

2,190

.34

10

4

5,480

.84

6

12

9,840

1.51

5

25

1,970

.30

10

3

1,690

.26

9

3

7,960

1.22

5

9

3,270

.50

12

5

6,690

1.02

7

16

11,780

1.80

6

18

3,080

.47

10

4

ft

C o a tin g , p a in tin g , a n d s p ra y in g m a c h in e

setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders.......................................................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Separating, filtering, clarifying,
precipitating, and still machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 10. Paper and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 26)

Occupation

Employment1

All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers.......... .....................................................
Cutters and trimmers, hand ......................................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, ne c......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Water and liquid waste treatment plant and
system operators.....................................................................
Chemical plant and system operators.....................................
Power distributors and dispatchers..........................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer..........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators............................................
Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and
hostlers.........................................................................................
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators............................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators......................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Crane and tower operators.......................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders.............................................
Pump operators..........................................................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand................................
Hand packers and packagers .....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

35,640
19,710
1,580
80
1,550

5.45
3.02
.24
.01
.24

4
n.a.
7
30
9

19
n.a.
5
(3)
5

11,160
5,340
6,770

1.71
.82
1.04

6
9
n.a.

14
6
n.a.

1,060
550
1,360
1,780
2,020
9,990

.16
.08
.21
.27
.31
1.53

7
14
10
7
15
n.a.

4
1
3
5
2
n.a.

7,330

1.12

3

37

2,260
400

.35
.06

8
17

19
1

110
180

.02
.03

14
17

1
1

140
25,610
270
1,200
20,920
1,820
300

.02
3.92
.04
.18
3.20
.28
.05

1,100
1,160

.17
.18

10
9

3

450
24,890
10,390
21,100

.07
3.81
1.59
3.23

15

4

1
35
30
27

41,740

6.39

4

23

17
n .a .

25
8
2
8
24

3
4

1
n .a .

1
4

49
6

1

5

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

44

Printing and Publishing

Establishments in this industry perform any o f the
following operations: (1) Letterpress, lithography,
gravure, or screen printing; (2) bookbinding, typesett­
ing, engraving, photoengraving, and electrotyping; and
(3) publishing newspapers, books, and periodicals,
whether or not they do their own printing. These
establishments employed nearly 1.3 million workers, or
7 percent o f manufacturing and 17 percent o f non­
durable goods employment in 1983. One-third of the
workers were in establishments publishing (or
publishing and printing) newspapers; another one-third
worked in establishments engaged in commercial print­
ing; and less than one-tenth worked in establishments
which publish (or publish and print) books and pam­
phlets.
Unlike most other industries surveyed in the
manufacturing sector of the economy, employment in
the printing and publishing industry increased by 2 per­
cent between 1980 and 1983.
Managerial and administrative workers decreased
from 10 percent o f total employment in 1980 to 7 per­
cent in 1983. Sales workers and clerical and ad­
ministrative support workers, however, both increased
as a percentage o f total industry employment. Text table

8 shows employment by major occupational group since
1977.
Although still the largest occupational group in the
printing and publishing industry, the 602,150 produc­
tion and related workers accounted for only about half
o f total industry employment (table 11), a smaller pro­
portion than in any other manufacturing industry
surveyed. Clerical workers accounted for 24 percent.
Professional, paraprofessional, and technical workers
made up 11 percent o f industry employment; sales
workers, 10 percent; managerial and administrative
workers, 7 percent; and service workers, 1 percent.
The five most populous occupations in printing and
publishing are listed below:

General managers and top
executives......................................
Sales representatives......................
Printing press machine operators
and tenders....................................
Offset lithographic press
setters and setup operators..........
Writers and editors........................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

63,060
62,530

4.9
4.9

60,390

4.7

55,690
50,710

4.3
3.9

Text table 8. Printing and publishing: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1977

1980

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,132,880

1,254,300

1,286,710

13.6

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

97,070

126,830

'91,520

-5.7

121,430
73,050
239,570
582,510
19,250

136,890
92,890
264,290
612,420
20,980

147,490
2123,560
302,560
602,150
19,200

21.5
69.1
26.3
3.4
-0.3

1 A significant portion of the decline may be due to changes in the coding
structure rather than to actual changes in establishment staffing patterns.
See footnote 1 to text table 1.

2 Includes 7,722 employees in the occupation “first-line supervisor— sales"
which would have been included with managerial employment in previous
surveys.

45

Table 11. Printing and publishing: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983
(SIC 27)

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

7.11
.26

n.a.
2

n.a.
9

1,750
1,020

.14
.08

2
3

6
4

6,050
2,940
5,180
63,060
8,170

.47
.23
.40
4.90
.63

3
8
3
1
7

8
4
8
79
5

147,490
11,260

11.46
.88

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

4,100
3,040
380
680

.32
.24
.03
.05

n.a.
4
7
10

n.a.
6
1
1

1,330

.10

3

4

890
2,820
2,120
1,260
500
530
230

.07
.22
.16
.10
.04
.04
.02

4
4
6
n.a.
6
9
12

2
5
2
n.a.
1
1
(3)

3,930

.31

n.a.

n.a.

150
3,100

.01
.24

13
7

(3)
4

680

.05

13

1

8,850

.69

n.a.

n.a.

2,970
4,670

.23
.36

5
4

5
8

1,210
320
1,360

.09
.02
.11

n.a.
n.a.
9

n.a.
n.a.
3

180
50,710
1,380

.01
3.94
.11

11
2
12

1
27
1

1,160
41,670
5,480
11,140
3,160

.09
3.24
.43
.87
.25

10
2
3
3
6

1
15
6
11
3

5,630

.44

n.a.

n.a.

123,570

9.60

n.a.

n.a.

7,720
20’290

.60
1.58

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

T o ta l.....................................................................................

1,286,710

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers ..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

91,520
3,350

Occupation

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products ......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Industrial engineers, except safety ..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
All other computer systems analysts,
programmers, and programmer aides ..................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
Librarians, professional ................................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Writers and editors........................................................................
Technical w riters...........................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity writers..................................................................
Reporters and correspondents ...................................................
Photographers..............................................................................
Artists and related workers.........................................................
Designers, except interior designers.........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers................................
Sales and related occupations .....................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers..................................................................
Sales agents, advertising............................................................

See footnotes at end of table.

46

5
3

6
7

Table 11. Printing and publishing: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 27)

Occupation

Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
Cashiers..........................................................................................
News and street vendors, telephone solicitors,
door-to-door sales
workers, and other related workers.........................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Library assistants and bookmobile drivers................................
Advertising clerks..........................................................................
Proofreaders and copy markers..................................................
Secretaries......................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks............................................................................
Interviewing clerks, except personnel and
social w elfare..............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Duplicating machine operators.................................................
Mail machine operators, preparation and
handling ....................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
Data keyers, composing............................................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Mail clerks, except mail machine operators and
postal service..............................................................................
Messengers.....................................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and
ambulance................................................................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

9,940

0.77

4

9

62,530
1,380

4.86
.11

2
7

42
2

16,600
5,110

1.29
.40

15
9

2
3

302,520

23.51

n.a.

n.a.

7,840
680
10,490
18,640
42,180
970
2,750
10,840
7,520

.61
.05
.82
1.45
3.28
.08
.21
.84
.58

3
7
4
2
2
13
6
3
4

8
1
5
24
52
1
6
13
10

1,070
2,690

.08
.21

3
6

4
3

9,060
760
820

.70
.06
.06

4
5
9

5
2
1

950
35,170
2,060
4,100
44,330

.07
2.73
.16
.32
3.45

18
1
3
3
3

45,180

3.51

n.a.

n.a.

1,330
810

.10
.06

6
13

2
2

12,800

.99

5

9

3,650
510
5,160
20,130
790
3,040

.28
.04
.40
1.56
.06
.24

6
9
5
3
14
2

5
1
18
1
8

7,100
4,470

.55
.35

5
4

9
5

31,770

2.47

n.a.

n.a.

720

.06

8

1

5,770

.45

3

6

290

.02

12

6,950

.54

4

11

16,680

1.30

2

22

1,360

.11

11

1

8,040

.62

10

3

See footnotes at end of table.

47

O

55
6
6
40

5

O

Table 11. Printing and publishing: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 27)

Occupation

Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service workers .............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers ......................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers ..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Precision etchers and engravers, hand or
machine ....................................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision printing workers............................................................
Precision compositors, typesetters, and
arrangers..................................................................................
Job printers................................................................................
Precision lithography and photoengraving
workers ....................................................................................
Bookbinders...............................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

19,200

1.49

n.a.

n.a.

960
1,870

.07
.15

6
6

2
2

410

.03

11

15,260

1.19

n.a.

n.a.

14,470

1.12

2

24

790
700

.06
.05

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

230
230

.02
.02

n.a.
12

n.a.
1

602,180

46.80

n.a.

n.a.

39,460

3.07

n.a.

n.a.

820

.06

5

2

36,000

2.80

1

44

1,310

.10

6

2

1,330
640

.10
.05

8
14

2
1

4,680
11,910
3,060
740
6,660
340

.36
.93
.24
.06
.52
.03

6
n.a.
6
16
3
14

3
n.a.
3
1
12
1

270
840

.02
.07

18
n.a.

(3)
n.a.

2,310
350
1,560

.18
.03
.12

n.a.
7
5

n.a.
1
2

180
220
2,520
1,620

.01
.02
.20
.13

12
n.a.
n.a.
10

(3)
n.a.
n.a.
1

650
250
88,330

.05
.02
6.86

20
n.a.
n.a.

1
n.a.
n.a.

20,960
15,690

1.63
1.22

3
4

19
15

40,310
9,310

3.13
.72

2
6

30
6

J_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 11. Printing and publishing: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 27)

Occupation

All other precision printing workers .........................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters ..............................................................................
Precision photographic process w orkers................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Offset lithographic press setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Letterpress setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
All other printing press setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Photoengraving and lithographing
photographers..........................................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Bindery machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Typesetting and composing machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Photoengraving and lithographing machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Bindery machine operators.......................................................
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Paper goods machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, nec .............................................................
Cutters and trimmers, hand ......................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ..........................................................................
Engraving and printing workers, hand.....................................
All other hand workers, ne c......................................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer ............................................................. ............................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers ...........................................................................
Driver/sales workers..................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators .....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

2,060
18,170

0.16
1.41

11
n.a.

1
n.a.

4,720
2,030
11,420

.37
.16
.89

7
g
4

5
2
7

289,830

22.52

n.a.

n.a.

55,690

4.33

2

30

19,300

1.50

4

13

6,020

.47

g

2

17,510

1.36

2

26

1,680

.13

18

(3)

2,220

.17

13

1

23,670

1.84

3

20

3,570

.28

12

1

32,340

2.51

3

31

60,390

4.69

2

31

3,000
31,040

.23
2.41

g
3

2
18

11,000

.85

g

3

2,350

.18

12

1

960

.07

10

1

2,750

.21

6

2

1,730

.13

11

1

9,220

.72

10

4

2,050

.16

14

1

3,340
18,740
660

.26
1 46
.05

12
15

1
n.a.
1

150
790
17,140
35,210

01
.06
1.33
2.74

37
19
5
n.a.

(3)
1
4
n.a.

1,920

.15

12

1

18,510
14,100
680

1.44
1 10
.05

4
7
18

26
3
1

250
6,620
5,420

.02
.51
.42

14
n.a.
6

(3)
n.a.
3

1,200
580
33,460
18,560

.09
05
2.60
1.44

20
8
3
3

(3)
1
12
15

See footnotes at end of table.

49

Table 11. Printing and publishing: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 27)

Occupation

Employment1

Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................
All other production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations..................................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

12,040

0.94

6

3

18,280

1.42

n.a.

n.a.

590

.05

n.a.

n.a.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

50

Chemicals and Allied
Products

Clerical workers, 15 percent; managerial and ad­
ministrative workers, 8 percent; sales workers, 4 per­
cent; and service workers, 2 percent. The change in oc­
cupational employment between 1977 and 1983 is shown
in text table 9.
The five most populous occupations in manufactur­
ing chemicals and allied products are listed in the
tabulation below:

Establishments which produce basic chemicals and
manufacture products by predominantly chemical pro­
cesses employed 1.1 million workers, accounting for 6
percent o f manufacturing and 14 percent o f nondurable
goods employment in 1983. O f these workers, 19 per­
cent worked in establishments manufacturing,
fabricating, or processing medicinal chemicals and
pharmaceutical products; 16 percent worked in
establishments producing plastics materials and syn­
thetic resins, synthetic rubber, and synthetic and other
manmade fibers, except glass; and 16 percent worked in
establishments manufacturing industrial organic
chemicals.
As shown in table 12, the 546,840 production and
related workers in the chemical and allied products in­
dustry accounted for over half (52 percent) o f total in­
dustry employment. Professional, paraprofessional,
and technical workers ranked second with 19 percent.
The remaining employment was distributed as follows:

Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders................
Chemical equipment controllers
and operators..............................
First-line supervisors,
production..................................
Secretaries.......................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except health........ .

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

51,480

4.9

44,180

4.2

41,980
39,650

4.0
3.8

37,640

3.6

Text table 9. Chemicals and allied products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
1977

1980

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,081,980

1,116,820

1,053,520

- 2.6

Managerial and administrative workers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

96,960

110,000

86,400

-10.9

179,290
55,360
160,600
564,030
25,740

196,640
35,290
162,670
587,520
24,700

202,040
38,270
153,900
546,840
23,560

12.7
-30.9
- 4.2
- 3.0
- 8.5

Major occupational
group

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Table 12. Chemical and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983
(SIC 28)

Occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

1,053,570

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers ..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators................................... .

86,400
5,490

8.20
.52

n.a.
6

n.a.
18

3,700
1,860

.35
.18

5
3

19
15

6,700
2,810
9,570
32,300
23,970

.64
.27
.91
3.07
2.28

7
12
5
4
7

11
9
21
86
19

202,050
33,710

19.18
3.20

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

14,540
10,940
1,190
2,410

1.38
1.04
.11
.23

n.a.
4
6
11

n.a.
36
6
4

4,050

.38

3

20

3,920
790

.37
.07

5
8

13
3

1,170
9,240
40,910

.11
.88
3.88

13
10
n.a.

4
8
n.a.

560
17,660
1,570
120
3,520
3,360
1,540
8,290
4,290

.05
1.68
.15
.01
.33
.32
.15
.79
.41

12
4
14
35
9
9
6
6
10

1
24
3
O
8
7
9
19
6

12,450

1.18

n.a.

n.a.

320

.03

13

1

2,500

.24

13

4

1,150

.11

18

2

1,370
3,470

.13
.33

14
11

2
10

3,640
31,750
240
30,110
1,400
11,470
480
7,650
2,120
1,220

.35
3.01
.02
2.86
.13
1.09
.05
.73
.20
.12

10
n.a.
16
4
12
n.a.
17
10
19
18

4
n.a.
1
46
3
n.a.
1
7
1
1

44,440

4.22

n.a.

n.a.

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
Compliance officers and enforcement
inspectors, except construction.............................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers.......................................................................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers .........................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Agricultural engineers................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Civil engineering technicians and
technologists............................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physicists and astronomers......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Life scientists.................................................................................
Agricultural and food scientists................................................
Biological scientists...................................................................
Medical scientists......................................................................
All other life scientists ..............................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists.....................................................................

See footnotes at end of table.

5*

Table 12. Chemical and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 28)

Occupation

Biological, agricultural, and food
technicians and technologists,
except health ...........................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except health ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control........................................................................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts, except computer........................................................
Statisticians....................................................................................
All other mathematical scientists................................................
Lawyers..........................................................................................
Physicians and surgeons .............................................................
Veterinarians and veterinary inspectors.....................................
Registered nurses.........................................................................
Pharmacists ...................................................................................
All other health professionals,
paraprofessional and technicians.............................................
Writers and editors........................................................................
Technical writers...........................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity writers...................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks ............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

4,180

0.40

12

3

37,640

3.57

4

40

2,620

.25

10

3

11,650

1.11

n.a.

n.a.

6,160
4,180
1,190

.58
.40
.11

8
6
7

10
11
5

120
1,810

.01
.17

19
n.a.

(3)
n.a.

840
790
180
1,830
360
290
1,360
300

.08
.07
.02
.17
.03
.03
.13
.03

12
14
29
11
10
15
4
27

2
2

930
720
530

.09
.07
.05

14
17
18

3
2
2

520
1,210

.05
.11

17
12

2
3

5,810

.55

n.a.

n.a.

38,270

3.63

n.a.

n.a.

4,440
3,770

.42
.36

9
8

7
9

21,040

2.00

4

35

5,850
3,170

.56
.30

8
9

7
5

153,910

14.61

n.a.

n.a.

5,940
39,650
3,020
1,230
5,190
2,820

.56
3.76
.29
.12
.49
.27

7
4
10
5
6
7

16
70
4
9
16
9

2,310
1,410

.22
.13

5
7

12
5

4,890
1,920
960
14,640
2,240
4,220
18,510

.46
.18
.09
1.39
.21
.40
1.76

7
4
13
3
2
5
4

13
12
3
53
17
13
46

8,520

.81

n.a.

n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

53

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3
3
1
9
(3)

Table 12. Chemical and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 28)

Occupation

Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers.........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households.....................................
All other service workers .............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Animal caretakers, except farm ..................................................
All other agriculture, forestry, fishing, and
related workers...........................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers...................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers.......... .............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ...................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders...............................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

510

0.05

9

2

2,750
660
3,730
870
1,640

.26
.06
.35
.08
.16

5
10
4
9
2

11
2
13
2
16

30,130

2.86

n.a.

n.a.

5,470

.52

4

14

1,350

.13

10

3

8,250

.78

3

30

13,450

1.28

2

51

1,610

.15

10

4

4,670

.44

8

7

23,570

2.24

n.a.

n.a.

1,860
6,380

.18
.61

7
5

6
11

1,000

.09

12

2

13,420

1.27

n.a.

n.a.

12,740

1.21

3

31

680
910

.06
.09

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

2,520
960
1,340

.24
.09
.13

n.a.
9
13

n.a.
3
1

220

.02

40

546,850

51.90

n.a.

n.a.

57,290

5.44

n.a.

n.a.

9,250

.88

3

17

1,430

.14

10

3

41,980

3.98

2

71

2,100

.20

4

10

2,530
3,200

.24
.30

6
10

7
3

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 12. Chemical and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
( S IC 2 8 )

Occupation

Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, water or
power generation plant........................................................
All other machinery maintenance mechanics......................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers...................................... ........
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive m echanics..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers........................................................
Precision instrument repairers................ ..................................
Mechanical control and valve installers and
repairers....................................................................................
Riggers.........................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
Insulation w orkers......................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Extractive and related workers, including
blasters........................................................................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
Boilermakers...............................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Textile machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Textile machine operators and tenders winding, twisting, knitting, weaving,
and cutting................................................................................
Extruding and forming machine operators and
tenders, synthetic or glass fibers ..........................................
Textile draw-out machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders ............................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Cooling and freezing equipment operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Chemical equipment controllers and
operators...................................................................................
Chemical equipment tenders....................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

14,210
69,370
21,070

1.35
6.58
2.00

7
n.a.
n.a.

18
n.a.
n.a.

5,810
15,260
4,650
2,260
27,070
820

.55
1.45
.44
.21
2.57
.08

9
5
8
8
3
8

8
10
3
4
46
3

640

.06

10

2

1,150
7,360

.11
.70

8
5

3
8

820
930
2,600

.08
.09
.25

10
9
16

2
2
2

26,650
2,500
10,800

2.53
.24
1.03

n.a.
5
5

n.a.
6
18

1,830

.17

5

6

8,510
1,450
1,560

.81
.14
.15

5
8
25

7
3
2

160
9,290
6,520
1,220
1,310
240
840

.02
.88
.62
.12
.12
.02
.08

25
n.a.
9
8
13
33
13

(3)
n.a.
9

209,850

19.92

n.a.

n.a.

5,640

.54

17

10,960

1.04

11

1

10,730

1.02

9

1

880

.08

23

3,400

.32

6

3

2,860

.27

4

5

480

.05

21

1

44,180
14,810

4.19
1.41

3
8

24
9

870

.06

17

1

1,070

.10

15

1

530

.05

16

1

2,960

.28

10

3

1,360

.13

10

2

See footnotes at end of table.

55

3

2
(3)
1

0

(3)

Table 12. Chemical and allied products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 28)

Occupation

Employment'

Separating, filtering, clarifying,
precipitating, and still machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
All other hand workers, ne c......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Water and liquid waste treatment plant and
system operators.....................................................................
Gas plant operators...................................................................
Chemical plant and system operators.....................................
Power distributors and dispatchers..........................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and
hostlers........................................................................................
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators............................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators .....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Tank car and truck loaders.......................................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
Pump operators..........................................................................
All other material moving equipment

Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers........................................................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, h a n d ...............................
Hand packers and packagers ....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d .............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

4,100

0.39

9

3

29,910

2.84

2

39

2,760

.26

10

4

5,890

.56

8

5

51,480

4.89

3

38

3,340

.32

12

3

11,840
10,640
2,900
110
7,630
42,830

1.12
1.01
.28
.01
.72
4.07

8
n.a.
6
23
10
n.a.

6
n.a.
5

3,040
410
31,930
1,260
2,130
4,060
13,180

.29
.04
3.03
.12
.20
.39
1.25

25
18
4
15
8
12
n.a.

13
1
3
2
n.a.

8,180

.78

3

23

4,430
570

.42
.05

6
14

19
2

310
320

.03
.03

11
11

1
1

180
23,330
2,680
130
580
15,640
1,200
2,030

.02
2.21
.25
.01
.06
1.48
.11
.19

23
n.a.
5
16
8
3
12
6

1,070
1,880

.10
.18

n.a.
8

n.a.
4

540
3,870
10,620
21,890

.05
.37
1.01
2.08

13
9
5
15

1
2
9
6

26,400

2.51

5

15

O

3
n.a.
4
(3)

O

n.a.
5
0
2

25
2
5

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

' Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

56

Petroleum Refining and
Related Industries

Establishments which refine petroleum, manufacture
paving and roofing materials, and compound
lubricating oils and greases from purchased materials
employed 196,960 workers in 1983, or only 1 percent of
manufacturing and 3 percent o f nondurable goods
employment. Over four-fifths o f these workers were
engaged in producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel
oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, and other products
from crude petroleum and its fractionation products.
The 117,050 production and related workers in this
industry (table 13), accounted for 59 percent o f total in­
dustry employment. Professional, paraprofessional,
and technical workers ranked second with 19 percent.
Clerical workers accounted for 13 percent; managerial
and administrative workers, 5 percent; sales workers, 2

percent; and service workers, 1 percent.
The five most populous occupations in the manufac­
ture o f refined petroleum and related products are listed
in the tabulation below:

Petroleum refinery and control
panel operators........................
First-line supervisors,
production................................
Chemical equipment controllers
and operators............................
Maintenance repairers, general
u tility ......................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists..........................

57

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

15,340

7.8

8,480

4.3

7,540

3.8

5,410

2.7

4,970

2.5

Table 13. Petroleum refining and related industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983
(S IC 2 9 )

Occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas well
drilling m anagers........................................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products ......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Petroleum engineers..................................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Civil engineering technicians and
technologists............................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
Geologists, geophysicists, and
oceanographers ........................................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists.....................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h ealth .................................................
Petroleum technicians and
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists...............................................
Computer scientists and related
workers ....................................................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

196,940

100.00

10,760
800

5.46
.41

n.a.
16

n.a.
13

630
240

.32
.12

11
13

18
11

470
430
1,340

.24
.22
.68

18
13
10

9
9
16

140
3,780
2,930

.07
1.92
1.49

33
5
11

1
78
15

37,420
9,070

19.00
4.61

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

4,350
3,330
240
780

2.21
1.69
.12
.40

n.a.
16
13
21

n.a.
31
5

860

.44

6

26

1,040
220
2,600
10,610
380
4,530
560
840
820
410
2,420
650

.53
.11
1.32
5.39
.19
2.30
.28
.43
.42
.21
1.23
.33

11
20
22
n.a.
21
9
13
13
22
9
9
16

11
4
7
n.a.
3
14
6
8
6
10
15
5

2,830

1.44

n.a.

n.a.

170

.09

26

2

440

.22

16

5

210

.11

28

2

440
950

.22
.48

19
11

11

620
3,370
2,500

.31
1.71
1.27

24
n.a.
10

n.a.
29

780
90

.40
.05

26
17

1
2

6,230

3.16

n.a.

n.a.

4,970

2.52

10

25

760

.39

19

7

500

.25

42

2

3,390

1.72

n.a.

n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

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4
4

Table 13. Petroleum refining and related industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(S IC 2 9)

Occupation

Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity writers ...................................................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists.............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service...........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,760
1,420
210
130

0.89
.72
.11
.07

19
21
26
n.a.

7
10
4
n.a.

380

.19

22

7

100

.05

17

3

1,310

.67

n.a.

n.a.

4,800

2.44

n.a.

n.a.

550

.28

27

5

680

.35

9

13

2,200
1,370

1.12
.70

7
44

30
3

24,770

12.58

n.a.

n.a.

1,490
4,720
930
170
330
230

.76
2.40
.47
.09
.17
.12

16
8
28
10
14
12

15
60
5
8
6
4

430
230

.22
.12

10
18

10
4

970
290
3,700
450
420
3,960

.49
.15
1.88
.23
.21
2.01

11
12
10
9
10
11

25
9
49
15
10
43

1,710

.87

n.a.

n.a.

90

.05

30

2

710
600
310
280

.36
.30
.16
.14

17
18
24
7

7
8
3
13

3,400

1.73

n.a.

n.a.

1,160

.59

10

12

240

.12

23

3

1,300

.66

7

23

620

.31

13

11

80

.04

20 ,

3

1,060

.54

25

6

2,120

1.08

n.a.

n.a.

160

.08

See footnotes at end of table.

59

14

4

Table 13. Petroleum refining and related industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(S IC 2 9)

Occupation

Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers ........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
All other service workers .............................................................

Employment’

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

830

0.42

10

8

110

.06

33

1

860
160

.44
.08

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

40

.02

n.a.

n.a.

117,030

59.42

n.a.

n.a.

13,250

6.73

n.a.

n.a.

3,060

1.55

8

15

810

.41

13

7

8,480

4.31

4

69

460

.23

9

10

440
880

.22
.45

13
14

7
7

1,620
14,050
4,240
210
5,410
470

.82
7.13
2.15
.11
2.75
.24

9
n.a.
7
19
9
9

11
n.a.
29
3
39
12

230
2,400

.12
1.22

14
8

5
10

380
350
360

.19
.18
.18

21
15
22

2
3
3

9,290
1,000
2,410

4.72
.51
1.22

n.a.
10
7

n.a.
10
15

410

.21

14

6

3,880
150
760
680

1.97
.08
.39
.35

10
30
10
n.a.

10
1
7
n.a.

180
4,720
3,060
1,560
100
100

.09
2.40
1.55
.79
.05
.05

29
n.a.
12
12
23
34

1
n.a.
9
5
2
1

20,440

10.38

n.a.

n.a.

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Mechanical control and valve installers and
repairers....................................................................................
Riggers.........................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters.............................................. ................................
Pipelayers....................................................................................
Insulation workers......................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Extractive and related workers, including
blasters.......................................................................................
Precision metal workers..............................................................
Machinists ..................................................................................
Boilermakers..............................................................................
All other precision metal workers ...........................................
Precision workers, n e c ................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic.........................................................

Percent of total
employment

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 13. Petroleum refining and related industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 29)

Occupation

Employment’

Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders ............................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure..............................................................................
Chemical equipment controllers and
operators....................................................................................
Chemical equipment tenders....................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders............................................................
Separating, filtering, clarifying,
precipitating, and still machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders ..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
All other hand workers, n e c ......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Gas plant operators...................................................................
Chemical plant and system operators.....................................
Petroleum pump system operators..........................................
Petroleum refinery and control panel
operators...................................................................................
Gaugers........................................................................................
Power distributors and dispatchers..........................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer..........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators......................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Tank car and truck loaders.......................................................
Oil pumpers, except well h e a d .................................................
Crane and tower operators.......................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
Pump operators..........................................................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers............................. ............................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................
1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of totai employment; relative standard errors

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)1
2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

910

0.46

14

5

650

.33

12

6

7,540
930

3.83
.47

13
21

10
4

60

.03

27

1

170

.09

21

2

510

.26

20

2

940

.48

14

6

1,470

.75

26

3

3,410

1.73

7

41

3,020

1.53

7

21

350

.18

21

1

480
2,200
2,000
200
26,550
1,190
1,810
3,380

.24
1.12
1.02
.10
13.48
.60
.92
1.72

17
n.a.
8
n.a.
n.a.
26
13
11

3
n.a.
18
n.a.
n.a.
2
8
12

15,340
1,580
720
630
1,900
5,210

7.79
.80
.37
.32
.96
2.65

8
11
21
16
16
n.a.

17
8
2
3
7
n.a.

4,160

2.11

7

36

850
200

.43
.10

9
19

15
3
n.a.
n.a.
16
1
5
35
2
10

100

.05

6 ,2 3 0

3 .1 6

1,250
260
310
2,630
280
1,150

.63
.13
.16
1.34
.14
.58

n.a.
n.a.
9
32
15
4
26
12

350
1,820

.18
.92

n.a.
12

n.a.
7

740
840
1,640

.38
.43
.83

16
13
9

4
8
19

7,170

3.64

13

20

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

Rubber and Miscellaneous
Plastics Products

As shown in table 14, the industry’s 553,380 produc­
tion and related workers accounted for over threefourths o f total industry employment. Clerical workers,
mostly office workers, ranked second with 9 percent.
The remaining employment was distributed as follows:
Managerial and administrative workers, 6 percent; pro­
fessional, paraprofessional, and technical workers, 5
percent; sales workers about 2 percent; and service
workers, about 1 percent.
The five most populous occupations in manufactur­
ing rubber and miscellaneous plastics products are listed
in the tabulation below. These jobs, all o f which are in
the production category, made up over one-fourth of
total industry employment.

This industry includes establishments which manufac­
ture tires, rubber footwear, mechanical rubber goods,
heels and soles, flooring, and rubber sundries;
establishments which engage in molding primary
plastics for the trade; and those manufacturing
miscellaneous finished plastics products. The industry
employed 719,440 workers in 1983, or 4 percent of
manufacturing and 9 percent o f nondurable goods
workers. Of the industry’s employees, 68 percent work­
ed in establishments molding primary plastics or
fabricating miscellaneous finished plastics products.
Establishments manufacturing tires and inner tubes
employed 13 percent; establishments manufacturing in­
dustrial and mechanical rubber goods, together with
rubberized fabric sundries employed 14 percent.
Unlike the majority of industries surveyed in 1983,
aggregate employment in the rubber and miscellaneous
plastics industry increased since 1980, growing by more
than 18,000 (or 1 percent).
Staffing patterns changed markedly between surveys.
The number o f managerial and administrative workers
declined by 11 percent between 1980 and 1983, while
clerical staff declined by 6 percent. In line with other
manufacturing industries, however, the employment of
sales workers increased. Sales worker employment in
the rubber and miscellaneous plastics industry increased
by 3,600, or 33 percent. Employment since 1977 by oc­
cupational group is summarized in text table 10.

Plastic molding and casting
machine operators and
tenders........................................
Assemblers and fabricators,
except machine, electrical,
electronic, and precision............
First-line supervisors,
production................................
Extruding, forming, pressing,
and compacting machine
operators and tenders..............
Plastic molding and casting
machine setters and setup
operators..................................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

78,700

10.9

53,130

7.4

35,140

4.9

23,810

3.3

21,810

3.0

Text table 10. Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

Percent change
1977-83

1977

1980

1983

T o ta l..............................................................

721,530

710,990

719,440

-0 .3

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w o rkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

37,090

45,860

40,800

10.0

33,330
10,870
60,890
568,200
11,150

41,070
11,020
67,470
534,150
11,420

36,000
114,620
63,640
553,380
10,740

8.0
34.5
4.5
-2.6
-3.7

1 Includes 1,540 employees in the occupation “first-line supervisor— sales” and 720 employees in the sales engineer category; in previous

surveys these workers would have been included in the managerial and pro­
fessional categories.

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Table 14. Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, June 1983
(SIC 30)

Occupation

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

719,450

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers ..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

40,800
2,670

5.67
.37

n.a.
14

n.a.
20

1,750
1,230

.24
.17

8
11

18
15

3,010
1,260
4,870
20,820
5,190

.42
.18
.68
2.89
.72

15
21
7
2
11

14
6
23
87
15

36,030
10,110

5.01
1.41

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

5,180
4,590
240
350

.72
.64
.03
.05

n.a.
9
14
12

n.a.
31
2
3

1,560

.22

4

17

980
710
1,680
11,280
2,610
970
2,040
390
4,020
1,250

.14
.10
.23
1.57
.36
.13
.28
.05
.56
.17

5
6
11
n.a.
18
20
7
28
15
15

9
7
6
n.a.
11
5
13
3
15
4

5,100

.71

n.a.

n.a.

570

.08

13

3

550

.08

9

4

1,100
1,480

.15
.21

14
6

4
11

1,400
1,300
1,170
130

.19
.18
.16
.02

9
n.a.
12
36

4
n.a.
6
1

3,540

.49

n.a.

n.a.

3,140

.44

6

10

400

.06

15

1

2,770

.39

n.a.

n.a.

1,000
1,400
370

.14
.19
.05

14
14
7

6
9
4

360
430

.05
.06

5
10

4
3

1,140

.16

n.a.

n.a.

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products ......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers ........................................................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering a n d related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except health ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 14. Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(S IC 3 0 )

Occupation

Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.......................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners..................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households ....................................
All other service workers ............................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

14,610

2.03

n.a.

n.a.

1,540
720

.21
.10

12
9

8
4

3,160

.44

6

12

8,050
1,140

1.12
.16

4
8

31
5

63,610

8.84

n.a.

n.a.

1,920
12,190
1,150
870
840
260

.27
1.69
.16
.12
.12
.04

6
3
44
6
8
13

13
64
2
11
5
2

890
300

.12
.04

4
9

11
3

2,080
670
7,920
1,380
1,560
7,840

.29
.09
1.10
.19
.22
1.09

5
5
2
3
6
3

11
8
52
16
12
42

2,780

.39

n.a.

n.a.

240

.03

9

2

850
1,530
160
900

.12
.21
.02
.13

5
6
19
3

8
10
1
13

19,110

2.66

n.a.

n.a.

3,400

.47

3

18

660

.09

10

3

2,550

.35

4

14

11,930

1.66

2

60

570

.08

10

3

950

.13

22

3

10,740

1.49

n.a.

n.a.

640
1,400

.09
.19

11
6

3
5

190

.03

31

1

8 ,0 9 0

1.12

n.a.

n.a.

7 ,8 1 0

1.09

4

40

280

.04

420

.06

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

64

Table 14. Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 30)

Occupation

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations..................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders ................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers ..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Mechanical control and valve installers and
repairers.....................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving.........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders ....................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision patternmakers, model makers, layout
workers, and cutters..............................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

260
260

0.04
.04

n.a.
16

n.a.
2

553,400

76.92

n.a.

n.a.

40,260

5.60

n.a.

n.a.

2,500

.35

4

14

340

.05

41

1

35,140

4.88

2

79

970

.13

5

7

1,310
8,220

.18
1.14

8
4

6
23

21,030
30,550
11,670
1,460
1,730
13,360
210

2.92
4.25
1.62
.20
.24
1.86
.03

5
n.a.
4
14
7
3
14

32
n.a.
27
2
6
45
1

250
910

.03
.13

12
15

1
2

220
740

.03
.10

31
17

(3)
2

5,880
420
3,580

.82
.06
.50

n.a.
13
7

n.a.
3
10

240

.03

12

2

1,480
160
15,720
4,340
10,020

.21
.02
2.19
.60
1.39

11
30
n.a.
6
5

2
1
n.a.
12
28

380
590
390
210
1,400

.05
.08
.05
.03
.19

12
19
24
32
n.a.

2
1
1
1
n.a.

530
870

.07
.12

29
23

1
1

127,610

17.74

n.a.

n.a.

1,460

.20

12

3

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 14. Rubber and miscellaneoua plastics products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 30)

Occupation

Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Shear and slitter machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Extruding and drawing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Rolling machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic................................................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Heaters, metal and plastic........................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Printing press machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders............................................
Textile machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Textile machine operators and tenders winding, twisting, knitting, weaving,
and cutting................................................................................
Sewing machine operators, garment.......................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment................................
Shoe sewing machine operators
and tenders................................................................................
Tire building machine operators...............................................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders ............................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure............................................................................
Chemical equipment controllers and
operators..................................................................................
Chemical equipment tenders...................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,520

0.21

16

2

1,580

.22

12

3

5,770

.80

9

5

1,490

.21

21

1

8,090

1.12

8

5

440

.06

21

1

890

.12

15

2

1,210

.17

18

1

21,810

3.03

5

32

78,700

10.94

3

37

130

.02

27

(3)

240

.03

25

0

120

.02

25

(3)

340

.05

39

(3)

120

.02

23

(3)

230
650

.03
.09

37
22

0

2,820

.39

13

3

6,570

.91

11

4

136,940

19.03

n.a.

n.a.

780

.11

15

2

420

.06

31

1

2,020

.28

12

2

660

.09

23

1

480

.07

20

1

1,140
1,000
3,820

.16
.14
.53

18
29
14

2
(3)
5

5,160
13,570

.72
1.89

18
9

0

4,420

.61

11

3

710

.10

11

3

930
430

.13
.06

19
19

1
1

See footnotes at end of table.

66

1

2

Table 14. Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 30)

Occupation

Employment’

Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders............................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Welders and cutters......................................................... ..........
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
Cutters and trimmers, hand ......................................................
Molders and casters, h a n d .......................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ..........................................................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, n e c ......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Chemical plant and system operators.....................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer..........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators ......................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
C o nveyo r o p e ra tors and ten d ers ......................................................

All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)1
2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

2,220

0.31

13

3

7,560

1.05

5

14

3,420

.48

10

7

4,910

.68

8

8

1,250

.17

14

2

490

.07

19

1

12,650

1.76

4

24

11,270

1.57

6

15

23,810

3.31

4

17

10,930

1.52

7

11

3,390

.47

13

3

12,930
78,030
850
140
6,670
1,900

1.80
10.85
.12
.02
.93
.26

7
n.a.
11
30
8
12

7
n.a.
4
(3)
6
2

3,600

.50

10

5

53,130
11,740
2,330
1,010
400
920
3,750

7.38
1.63
.32
.14
.06
.13
.52

3
8
n.a.
22
10
23
n.a.

33
7
n.a.
1
1
1
n.a.

2,680

.37

6

10

1,070

.15

9

8

950
15,900
14,430
820

.13
2.21
2.01
.11

n.a.
n.a.
4
19

n.a.
n.a.
25
1

650
570

.09
.08

12
13

2
2

170
14,310
14,890
18,700

.02
1.99
2.07
2.60

23
6
5
5

(3)
13
28
11

15,980

2.22

6

10

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

67

Leather and Leather
Products

Establishments which tan, curry, and finish hides and
skins or manufacture finished leather and artificial
leather products employed 205,540 workers in 1983, or
only 1 percent o f manufacturing and 3 percent o f non­
durable goods employment. Establishments manufac­
turing footwear (except rubber) employed 62 percent o f
industry workers, compared with 12 percent for
establishments manufacturing handbags and other per­
sonal leather goods, and 9 percent for establishments
engaged in tanning, currying, and finishing leather.
Total employment in the leather manufacturing in­
dustry declined by 13 percent between 1980 and 1983.
The 166,650 production and related workers in the in­
dustry (table 15) accounted for over four-fifths o f total
industry employment. Clerical workers accounted for
10 percent. The remaining employment was distributed
as follows: Managerial and administrative workers, 4
percent; sales workers, 2 percent; professional,

paraprofessional, and technical workers, 2 percent; and
service workers, 1 percent.
The five most populous occupations in the industry,
all production jobs, are listed in the tabulation below.
These occupations made up more than one-third o f total
industry employment.

Shoe sewing machine operators
and tenders....................................
Shoe and leather workers and
repairers, precision......................
Sewing machine operators,
nongarment..................................
Cementing and gluing machine
operators and tenders..................
Assemblers and fabricators,
except machine, electrical,
electronic, and precision..............

68

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

30,060

14.6

25,910

12.6

10,410

5.1

8,530

4.1

8,140

4.0

Table 15. Leather and leather products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983
(SIC 31)

Occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

205,550

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

8,130
520

3.96
.25

n.a.
8

n.a.
14

310
280

.15
.14

8
7

11
11

480
300
1,250
4,290
700

.23
.15
.61
2.09
.34

9
16
7
4
15

10
6
18
78
7

3,820
1,710

1.86
.83

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

780

.38

n.a.

n.a.

360

.18

8

12

130
140
300
530
300
80
150

.06
.07
.15
.26
.15
.04
.07

11
10
19
n.a.
9
12
n.a.

4
4
3
n.a.
9
2
n.a.

260

.13

n.a.

n.a.

130

.06

12

4

130

.06

n.a.

n.a.

60

.03

n.a.

n.a.

630

.31

n.a.

n.a.

190
300

.09
.15

18
12

4
6

140
420

.07
.20

n.a.
12

n.a.
7

210

.10

n.a.

n.a.

4,680

2.28

n.a.

n.a.

480

.23

17

7

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
All other computer systems analysts,
programmers, and programmer aides ..................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional.
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support w orkers...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................

540

.26

15

6

2,960
700

1.44
.34

11
n.a.

25
n.a.

19,780

9.62

n.a.

n.a.

1,050
2,080
140
230
310
130

.51
1.01
.07
.11
.15
.06

13
6
37
6
26
25

15
44
2
10
5
1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 15. Leather and leather products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 31)

Occupation

Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Marking clerks.............................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks........................................................ ................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................
Service occupations ........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
Elevator operators......................................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service workers .............................................................

Employment'

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

210
190

0.10
.09

7
14

8
4

840
220
60
1,990
850
550
2,950

.41
.11
.03
.97
.41
.27
1.44

12
11
15
5
4
12
9

10
6
2
49
19
10
39

1,200

.58

n.a.

n.a.

140

.07

17

3

330
570
160
260

.16
.28
.08
.13

12
16
n.a.
5

6
7
n.a.
11

6,240

3.04

n.a.

n.a.

580

.28

8

11

110
100

.05
.05

18
19

2
2

1,320

.64

19

12

3,640

1.77

4

56

490

.24

25

3

280

.14

n.a.

n.a.

2,440

1.19

n.a.

n.a.

220
370

.11
.18

16
8

3
6

1,760

.86

n.a.

n.a.

1,580
70

.77
.03

3
13

38
2

110
90

.05
.04

15
n.a.

2
n.a.

40

.02

n.a.

n.a.

166,660

81.08

n.a.

n.a.

6,380

3.10

n.a.

n.a.

190

.09

8

7

5,600

2.72

3

64

100

.05

16

2

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers ....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers..........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers...................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers.......................................................................

Percent of total
employment

See footnotes at end of table.

70

'

Table 15. Leather and leather products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 31)

Occupation

First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders ................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, textile
machines ...............................................................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics, sewing
All other machinery maintenance mechanics......................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Menders - garments, linens, and related................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Precision textile, apparel, and furnishings
workers.......................................................................................
Fabric and apparel patternmakers, and layout
workers .....................................................................................
Custom tailors and sewers .......................................................
Shoe and leather workers and repairers,
precision.....................................................................................
Precision d y ers...........................................................................
All other precision textile, apparel, and
furnishings workers..................................................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic........................................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine operators
and tenders ..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Textile machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Textile machine operators and tenders winding, twisting, knitting, weaving,
and cutting................................................................................
Extruding and forming machine operators and
tenders, synthetic or glass fib ers..........................................
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Sewing machine operators, garment.......................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

490
260

0.24
.13

13
21

5
2

4,100
3,490
1,220

1.99
1.70
.59

4
n.a.
n.a.

33
n.a.
n.a.

140

.07

20

2

700
380
60
160
1,820
90
140

.34
.18
.03
.08
.89
.04
.07

4
n.a.
31
14
4
23
n.a.

15
n.a.

310
120
120
70
490

.15
.06
.06
.03
.24

n.a.
13
8
n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
3
4
n.a.
n.a.

60
430
100

.03
.21
.05

28
n.a.
26

n.a.

26,950

13.11

n.a.

n.a.

340
90

.17
.04

16
47

5
1

25,910
200

12.61
.10

6
28

36
2

410
500

.20
.24

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.

1,600

.78

n.a.

n.a.

510

.25

20

2

1,090

.53

n.a.

n.a.

320

.16

24

1

73,390

35.70

n.a.

60

.03

19

1

70

.03

25

1

60

.03

20

1

170

.08

30

2

80

04

27

1

710

.35

18

2

70

.03

31

1

110
2,860
10,410

05
1.39
5.06

30
16
4

1
4
32

See footnotes at end of table.

71

1
3
33
1
n.a.

1
1

Table 15. Leather and leather products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(S IC 3 1 )

Occupation

Employment'

Shoe sewing machine operators
and tenders................................................................................
Laundry and drycleaning machine operators and
tenders, except pressing........................................................
Pressing machine operators and tenders,
textile, garment, and
related materials......................................................................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders............................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders............................................................
Cementing and gluing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators .................................. ....................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Pressers, hand............................................................................
Sewers, ha n d ..............................................................................
Cutters and trimmers, h a n d ......................................................
Portable machine cutters..........................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ..........................................................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, n ec......................................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer.........................................................................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators.....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders.............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers............................................
Machine feeders and offbearers................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand...............................
Hand packers and packagers....................................................
Ail other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d .............................................................................
All other production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations................................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

30,060

14.62

3

100

.05

45

1,470

.72

23

5

160

.08

32

1

60

.03

17

1

3,590

1.75

6

24

3,380

1.64

7

20

380

.18

14

3

930

.45

10

6

8,530

4.15

6

34

370

.18

21

2

550

.27

14

3

100

.05

37

1

590

.29

20

2

1,690

.82

8

13

1,450

.71

16

3

5,060
25,980
160
3,960
4,550
500

2.46
12.64
.08
1.93
2.21
.24

n.a.
n.a.
18
11
5
15

n.a.
n.a.
2
12
33
3

350

.17

14

4

8,140
8,320
270

3.96
4.05
.13

7
7
n.a.

15
15
n.a.

270

.13

11

5

290
910
440
250

.14
.44
.21
.12

n.a.
n.a.
10
12

n.a.
n.a.
6
4

220
140
3,110
3,830
3,390

.11
.07
1.51
1.86
1.65

41
15
7
6
8

1
2
15
29
15

11,110

5.41

n.a.

n.a.

60

.03

n.a.

n.a.

' E stim ates o f f e w e r than 5 0 w orkers, or w ith less th a n 0.01
p e rce n t o f industry em p lo ym en t, o r w ith a relative error g re ate r than
5 0 are g enerally not show n sep a ra te ly since such e stim ates are
consid ered unreliable. E stim ates th a t are not show n h ave be e n
c oun ted in th e approp riate “All o th er" categories.

29

0

inform ation on sam pling variability and o th er types o f errors, s ee
append ix A.
3 Less th an 0 .5 p ercen t,
n.a. = not available.

2 R elative stan dard errors apply equally to d a ta on e stim ated
e m p lo ym en t a n d p e rce n t o f total em ploym ent; relative stan dard errors
a re e stim ated at th e level o f 2 c h an ces out o f 3.
For further

N O T E : D etail m ay not a d d to to tals d u e to rounding.
em p lo y m e n t is roun ded to th e n e a re s t 10.

72

Estim ated

Stone, Clay, Glass, and
Concrete Products

Establishments manufacturing products o f glass, ce­
ment, structural clay, pottery, concrete and gypsum, cut
stone, abrasives, asbestos, and m iscellaneous
nonmetallic minerals employed 570,300 workers, ac­
counting for 3 percent o f manufacturing and 5 percent
of durable goods employment in 19821, Establishments
producing concrete, gypsum, and plaster products
employed 33 percent; establishments manufacturing
abrasive, asbestos, and miscellaneous nonmetallic
m ineral products em ployed 19 percent; and
establishments producing pressed or blown glass and
glassware employed 18 percent.
Total employment in the stone, clay, glass, and con­
crete products industry declined by 14 percent from the
1980 level. As shown in table 16, the 433,220 production
and related workers in this industry accounted for threefourths o f total industry employment. Clerical workers
ranked second with 9 percent. Most o f these were office
clerical workers. The remaining employment was

distributed as follows: Managerial and administrative
workers, 6 percent; professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers, 5 percent; sales workers, 3 percent:'
and service workers, 1 percent.
The five most populous occupations in the manufac­
ture of stone, clay, glass, and concrete products are
listed in the tabulation below:

Truckdrivers, heavy or tractor
trailer..........................................
First-line supervisors,
production..................................
General managers and top
executives....................................
Industrial truck and tractor
operators....................................
Maintenance repairers, general
u tility ..........................................

73

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

56,200

9.8

23,200

4.1

19,280

3.4

18,420

3.2

15,370

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Table 16. Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983
(SIC 32)

Occupation

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

570,270

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas well
drilling m anagers........................................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

33,880
1,880

5.94
.33

n.a.
9

n.a.
9

1,280
670

.22
.12

6
4

8
6

1,770
710
3,480

.31
.12
.61

14
8
6

5
3
10

250
19,280
4,560

.04
3.38
.80

8
1
15

2
77
6

26,750
7,960

4.69
1.40

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

4,110
3,480
280
350

.72
.61
.05
.06

n.a.
5
15
19

n.a.
18
1
1

1,160

.20

4

8

850
440
1,400
6,950

.15
.08
.25
1.22

6
6
16
n.a.

5
2
2
n.a.

570
720
480
740
1,440
1,940
1,060

.10
.13
.08
.13
.25
.34
.19

6
14
9
9
7
8
12

2
2
2
3
6
6
2

4,730

.83

n.a.

n.a.

80

.01

14

1

520

.09

9

2

360

.06

10

2

510
2,350

.09
.41

10
4

1
9

910
1,050
930
120

.16
.18
.16
.02

12
n.a.
7
28

2
n.a.
4
0

2,090

.37

n.a.

n.a.

1,630

.29

5

3

460

.08

28

1

2,230

.39

n.a.

n.a.

1,020
900
230

.18
.16
.04

17
10
8

3
4
1

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts............................................................. ..........
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers.........................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Civil engineering technicians and
technologists............................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except health ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing-............................................... ........................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es...................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 16. Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 32)

Occupation

Employment'

Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control.......................................................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and
ambulance................................................................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

80

0.01

12

360
500

.06
.09

5
8

3
2

880

.15

n.a.

n.a.

15,110

2.65

n.a.

n.a.

1,010
480

.18
.08

7
10

4
1

4,020

.70

8

11

8,500
1,100

1.49
.19

2
8

28
3

53,690

9.41

n.a.

n.a.

1,820
10,960
290
390
650
250

.32
1.92
.05
.07
.11
.04

9
5
17
4
6
13

6
45
1
4
3
1

660
290

.12
.05

7
11

5
1

1,300
460
9,180
1,560
1,340
7,350

.23
.08
1.61
.27
.23
1.29

6
6
2
5
6
2

5
3
48
10
6
34

2,040

.36

n.a.

n.a.

240

.04

12

1

760
920
120
720

.13
.16
.02
.13

8
6
26
3

4
4
(3)
7

13,770

2.41

n.a.

n.a.

4,580

.80

2

24

1,940

.34

4

7

560

.10

7

2

1,940

.34

4

8

4,400

.77

3

18

350

.06

13

1

660

.12

17

1

7,400

1.30

n.a.

n.a.

500
1,360

- . .09
.24

11
4

1
4

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 16. Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(S IC 3 2 )

Occupation

Food and beverage preparation and service
workers........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households.....................................
All other service workers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Refractory materials repairers, except brick
masons .....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................... ;............................................
Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except
engines......................................................................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Riggers.........................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians.................................................................................
Brickmasons...............................................................................
Concrete and terrazzo finishers..............................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters..............................................................................
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment
operators..................................................................................
All other construction trades workers.....................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

90

0.02

19

5,270

.92

n.a.

n.a.

4,930

.86

3

20

340
180

.06
.03

12
18

1
(3)

220
220

.04
.04

n.a.
12

n.a.
1

433,220

75.97

n.a.

n.a.

28,650

5.02

n.a.

n.a.

2,000

.35

3

7

520

.09

17

1

23,200

4.07

1

58

1,470

.26

5

5

1,460
3,630

.26
.64

6
9

4
4

22,580
37,860
10,290
1,580

3.96
6.64
1.80
.28

4
n.a.
3
9

14
n.a.
18
1

400
1,760
15,370
3,390

.07
.31
2.70
.59

9
6
2
3

2
5
33
15

2,430

.43

5

6

770
870
210
790

.14
.15
.04
.14

7
7
15
9

2
2
1
2

12,430
940
3,660
290
4,210

2.18
.16
.64
.05
.74

n.a.
7
3
14
7

n.a.
3
8
1
7

400

.07

14

2

640

.11

9

1

240
2,050

.04
.36

37
13

(3)
2

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 16. Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 32)

Occupation

Extractive and related workers, including
blasters.........................................................................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ....................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers............................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision molders, shapers, casters, and
carvers, except jewelry and foundry.....................................
Precision patternmakers, model makers, layout
workers, and cutters..............................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters .............................................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Sawing machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic.........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Textile machine operators and tenders winding, twisting, knitting, weaving,
and cutting................................................................................
Extruding and forming machine operators and
tenders, synthetic or glass fib ers..........................................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, or kettle
operators and tenders............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,070
6,340
1,460
3,640

0.19
1.11
.26
.64

10
n.a.
8
5

2
n.a.
2
8

470
350
420
12,580

.08
.06
.07
2.21

15
15
23
n.a.

1
1
0
n.a.

8,950

1.57

5

9

1,050

.18

9

2

990
1,590

.17
.28

13
21

1
1

12,230

2.14

n.a.

n.a.

330

.06

13

1

1,040

.18

9

2

970

.17

16

1

240

.04

21

1,400

.25

11

2

2,180

.38

9

3

1,200

.21

16

1

850

.15

26

1

2,130

.37

10

1

930

.16

13

1

540

.09

18

1

420

.07

23

950

.17

n.a.

n.a.

78,520

13.77

n.a.

n.a.

960

.17

10

2

60

.01

25

(3)

310

.05

24

(3)

70

.01

24

(3)

1,760

.31

22

(3)

4,080

.72

20

(3)

12,550

2.20

3

17

3,130

.55

5

5

3,920

.69

6

6

1,920

.34

8

4

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 16. Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments
reporting selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 32)

Occupation

Employment’

Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Separating, filtering, clarifying,
precipitating, and still machine operators
and tenders ..............................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Glaziers, manufacturing.............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers ...............................................................
Cutters and trimmers, h a n d ......................................................
Molders and casters, h a n d .......................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ..........................................................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, n e c ......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer .........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle

Dragline operators......................................................................
Dredge operators and dipper tenders.....................................
Grader, dozer, and scraper operators.....................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
Pump operators..........................................................................
All other material moving equipment
operators..................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ...........................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers................................................
Freight stock and material movers, h a n d ...............................
Hand packers and packagers ....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d .............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)1
2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,800

0.32

8

3

620

.11

11

1

370

.06

11

1

11,560

2.03

3

19

8,760

1.54

4

8

9,440

1.66

4

10

8,130

1.43

5

8

2,330

.41

n.a.

n.a.

5,800
37,820
500
5,220
780
2,890
7,540

1.02
6.63
.09
.92
.14
.51
1.32

7
n.a.
19
5
13
5
5

3
n.a.

2,650
5,130

.46
.90

7
5

4
7

10,600
2,510
3,420
430
2,990
62,130

1.86
.44
.60
.08
.52
10.89

6
8
n.a.
10
13
n.a.

5
3
n.a.

56,200

9.85

2

55

5,270
660

.92
.12

6
19

12
1

280
30,070
240
70
1,360
750
2,130
18,420
3,250
230
2,770

.05
5.27
.04
.01
.24
.13
.37
3.23
.57
.04
.49

16
n.a.
14
19
6
8
4
2
6
11
7

<3)
n.a.

850
1,570

.15
.28

20
11

1
2

760
15,130
12,330
15,360

.13
2.65
2.16
2.69

15
4
3
6

1
15
20
5

38,460

6.74

3

17

1
13
1
5
9

1
5
n.a.

1
o
4
3
8
35
10
1
6

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

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Primary Metal Products

workers, who accounted for 76 percent o f total industry
employment. Clerical workers ranked second with 9
percent. The remaining employment was distributed as
follows: Professional, paraprofessional, and technical
workers, 7 percent; managerial and administrative
workers, 4 percent; service workers, 2 percent; and sales
workers, 1 percent.
The five most populous occupations in manufactur­
ing parmary metal products are listed below:

Establishments which manufacture primary metal
products employed 828,000 workers in 1983, or 4.5 per­
cent o f manufacturing and 8 percent o f durable goods
employment. Of these workers, blast furnaces, steel
works, and rolling and finishing mills employed 41 per­
cent; establishments engaged in rolling, drawing, and
extruding nonferrous metals employed 22 percent; and
iron and steel foundries, 17 percent.
The primary metal products industry suffered the
largest absolute and relative decreases in employment o f
any manufacturing industry between 1980 and 1983.
Total employment fell from 1.2 million in 1980 to
828,000 in 1983, a decline of 31 percent.
The occupational staffing mix also changed
somewhat between 1980 and 1983. The proportion o f
production jobs fell from 79 to 76 percent, and
managerial and professional jobs increased as a percen­
tage o f total employment. Changes since 1977 are sum­
marized in text table 11.
As shown in table 17, the primary metal products in­
dustry employed 633,000 production and related

First-line supervisors,
production..................................
Machinery maintenance
mechanics....................................
Industrial truck and tractor
operators....................................
Crane and tower operators..........
Production inspectors, testers,
graders, sorters, samplers,
and weighers ..............................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

38,160

4.6

20,040

2.4

19,550
19,150

2.4
2.3

18,250

2.2

Text table 11. Primary metal products: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1977

1980

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,180,940

1,205,100

827,560

-29.9

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

43,460

47,550

36,630

-15.7

61,390
8,540
98,660
945,010
23,880

68,670
10,680
98,230
956,430
23,540

54,920
112,370
74,110
632,910
16,360

-10.5
44.9
-24.9
-33.0
-31.5

1 Includes 1,570 employees in the occupation ‘‘first-line super­
visor— sales" and 1,050 employees in the sales engineer category; in

previous surveys these workers would have been included in the managerial
and professional categories.

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Table 17. Primary metal products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983
(SIC 33)

Occupation

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l....................................................................................

827,540

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

36,630
2,960

4.43
.36

n.a.
5

n.a.
24

2,270
1,210

.27
.15

4
3

23
17

2,540
1,040
6,620
13,710
6,280

.31
.13
.80
1.66
.76

5
9
6
2
10

17
7
26
84
18

54,930
14,790

6.64
1.79

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

6,240
4,860
730
650

.75
.59
.09
.08

n.a.
5
18
12

n.a.
29
5
3

2,860

.35

3

32

1,960
1,060
2,670
17,450

.24
.13
.32
2.11

8
7
25
n.a.

12
8
7
n.a.

4,180
490
460
1,810
3,120
650
3,900
2,840

.51
.06
.06
.22
.38
.08
.47
.34

8
12
12
7
6
9
5
n.a.

23
3
3
9
16
6
18
n.a.

9,570

1.16

n.a.

n.a.

150

.02

45

1

1,320

.16

9

6

960

.12

10

5

660
2,770

.08
.33

8
6

4
15

3,710
1,710
1,400
310

.45
.21
.17
.04

7
n.a.
6
15

9
n.a.
9
2

3,220

.39

n.a.

n.a.

2,740

.33

7

8

480

.06

21

2

4,490

.54

n.a.

n.a.

2,090
1,770
430

.25
.21
.05

10
10
8

9
11
4

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers.......................................................................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers.........................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Civil engineering technicians and
technologists............................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists......................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h e alth ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers ....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing ......................................................................
Computer programmers............................................................
Computer programmer aid es...................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 17. Primary metal products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(S IC 3 3)

Occupation

Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control.......................................................................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts, except computer........................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists .............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks ............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ...........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

200
320

0.02
.04

15
n.a.

2
n.a.

320

.04

25

1

1,360

.16

6

10

2,020

.24

n.a.

n.a.

12,360

1.49

n.a.

n.a.

1,570
1,050

.19
.13

7
8

9
5

4,100

.50

10

19

4,630
1,010

.56
.12

4
13

22
5

74,090

8.95

n.a.

n.a.

3,270
11,130
1,170
710
1,980
620

.40
1.34
.14
.09
.24
.07

6
4
10
5
6
10

15
62
4
10
11
4

1,400
640

.17
.08

7
13

13
4

1,960
950
960
6,980
2,460
1,960
7,330

.24
.11
.12
.84
.30
.24
.89

8
5
13
4
4
5
5

10
10
3
50
20
14
38

4,150

.50

n.a.

n.a.

410

.05

11

3

1,340
170
1,830
400
1,000

.16
.02
.22
.05
.12

7
17
6
21
5

10
1
11
2
14

22,840

2.76

n.a.

n.a.

6,890

.83

6

22

2,830

.34

9

9

4,060

.49

4

18

8,100

.98

4

48

960

.12

9

4

2,580

.31

12

5

16,350

1.98

n.a.

n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 17. Primary metal products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(S IC 3 3 )

Occupation

First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers ..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics..............................................
Millwrights...............................................................................................
Refractory materials repairers, except brick
masons ............................................................... ............. .........
Machinery maintenance workers ;.7...............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ....................... .......................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Precision instrument repairers........................................................
Riggers....................................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving...................................................................................................
Carpenters..............................................................................................
Electricians.............................................................................................
Brickmasons..........................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.......................................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters.........................................................................................
All other construction trades workers...........................................
Extractive and related workers, including
blasters...................................................................................................
Precision metal workers.......................................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,240
5,300

0.15
.64

8
6

7
13

240

.03

17

1

9,130

1.10

n.a.

n.a.

8,350

1.01

5

39

780
440

.09
.05

21
22

2
2

250
250

.03
.03

n.a.
9

n.a.
2

632,930

76.48

n.a.

n.a.

55,720

6.73

n.a.

n.a.

9,280

1.12

10

20

1,720

.21

12

4

38,160

4.61

3

74

3,170

.38

• 16

9

3,390
9,690

.41
1.17

13
8

8
25

18,250
72,790
20,040
16,630

2.21
8.80
2.42
2.01

6
n.a.
10
13

31
n.a.
22
7

2,650
3,750
16,630
1,440

.32
.45
2.01
.17

11
10
4
14

6
12
49
4

2,280
3,150
2,490
3,730

.28
.38
.30
.45

13
13
20
18

5
5
1
4

29,390
2,220
15,830
2,320

3.55
.27
1.91
.28

n.a.
8
6
11

n.a.
9
23
4

1,100

.13

8

6

6,680
1,240

.81
.15

9
20

6
2

170
30,560

.02
3.69

24
n.a.

1
n.a.

S

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 17. Primary metal products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 33)

Occupation

Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Pattern and model makers, m etal............................................
Precision layout workers, m etal................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
Boilermakers...............................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Pattern and model makers, w o od ............................................
All other precision woodworkers..............................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision foundry mold and core m akers...............................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Sawing machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Shear and slitter machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Extruding and drawing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Rolling machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Forging machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Welding machine setters and
set-up operators........................................................................
Welding machine operators and tenders................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine setters and set-up operators..................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Foundry mold assembly and
shakeout workers......................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

5,630
12,920

0.68
1.56

8
6

15
23

3,940
2,540
980
1,470
2,220
860
1,500
1,280
220
14,090
13,210
880

.48
.31
.12
.18
.27
.10
.18
.15
.03
1.70
1.60
.11

6
7
16
17
18
34
n.a.
9
26
n.a.
3
15

12
11
3
3
1
1
n.a.
5
1
n.a.
26
2

153,200

18.51

n.a.

n.a.

2,320

.28

8

5

2,820

.34

11

7

1,480

.18

7

6

680

.08

15

2

7,340

.89

5

17

9,470

1.14

9

11

2,400

.29

7

8

2,660

.32

7

7

4,880

.59

8

6

17,590

2.13

5

16

9,450

1.14

8

10

1,200

.15

17

2

16,090

1.94

8

8

1,000

.12

15

2

1,410

.17

12

3

2,010

24

10

— 3

1,730
930

.21
.11

17
18

3
2

200

.02

27

0

170

.02

41

(3)

8,560

1.03

4

18

11,740

1.42

7

13

5,630

.68

6

8

880

.11

14

2

1,190

.14

13

2

See footnotes at end of table.

83

Table 17. Primary metal products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 33)

Occupation

Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic................................................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Furnace operators and tenders................................................
Heaters, metal and plastic........................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Separating, filtering, clarifying,
precipitating, and still machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
Metal pourers and casters,
basic shapes..............................................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, ha n d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, n e c ......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers..........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators ...........................................
Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and
hostlers.......................................................................................
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators...........................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators.......................................
Grader dozer, and scraper operators....................................
Hoist and winch operators.......................................................
Crane and tower operators......................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators.....................................
Conveyor operators and tenders ............................................
Pump operators.........................................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,010

0.12

17

1

380

.05

20

1

2.890

.35

7

10

9,630
17,250
3,060

1.16
2.08
.37

4
5
10

20
42
4

5,150

.62

11

4

11,170

1.35

9

7

41,880

5.06

n.a.

n.a.

1,380

.17

14

3

1,540

.19

12

3

1,750

.21

17

3

1,830

.22

12

5

1,520

.18

11

3

4.890

.59

6

14

4,700

.57

9

7

2,210

.27

11

2

10,890
56,820
13,510
510

1.32
6.87
1.63
.06

11
n.a.
9
19

7
n.a.
21
2

11,610
9,030

1.40
1.09

4
4

29
11

16,120
6,040
3,940
780
1,480
1,680
9,470

1.95
.73
.48
.09
.18
.20
1.14

5
14
n.a.
19
13
14
n.a.

13
5
n.a.
2
3
2
n.a.

6,450

.78

8

25

1,990
1,030

.24
.12

7
18

15
3

1,740
1,580

.21
.19

15
15

3
3

710
46,680
440
880
19,150
19,550
3,020
1,010

.09
5.64
.05
.11
2.31
2.36
.36
.12

19
n.a.
13
21
9
4
18
16

1
n.a.
2
2
15
33
3
2

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 17. Primary metal products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 33)

Occupation

Employment1

All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

2,630
2,760

0.32
.33

n.a.
10

n.a.
6

2,140
10,590
13,110

.26
1.28
1.58

12
7
8

3
13
24

56,150

6.79

6

24

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

85

Fabricated Metal Products,
Except Machinery and
Transportation Equipment

This industry, which includes establishments which
fabricate ferrous and nonferrous metal products, except
machinery and transportation equipment, employed
nearly 1.4 million workers, or 7 percent o f manufactur­
ing and 13 percent o f durable goods employment in
1983.The three largest employers o f these workers were:
Establishments fabricating structural metal products,
with 31 percent o f industry employment; those
manufacturing metal forgings or metal stampings, 16
percent; and those fabricating miscellaneous metal pro­
ducts, also with 16 percent.
Total employment in the fabricated metal products
industry declined 13 percent between 1980 and 1983.
Employment fell in all major occupational groups with
the exception o f sales workers. Changes since 1977 are
summarized in text table 12.
The fabricated metal products industry employed just
over 1.0 million production and related workers, who
accounted for 74 percent o f total industry employment
(table 18). Clerical workers accounted for 9 percent.

Most o f these were office clerical workers. The remain­
ing emplyment was distributed as follows: Professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers, 7 percent;
managerial and administrative workers, 6 percent; sales
workers, 3 percent; and service workers, about 1 per­
cent.
The tabulation below lists the five most populous occ u p a t io n s in t h e in d u s tr y :

Assemblers and fabricators,
except machine, electrical,
electronic, and precision..........
Machine forming operators
and tenders, metal and plastic ..
First-line supervisors,
production..................................
General managers and top
executives....................................
Sheet-metalworkers....................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

103,970

7.6

65,280

4.8

58,350

4.3

47,180
33,180

3.4
2.4

Text table 12. Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment: Employment by major occupational
group, selected years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1980

1977

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,588,640

1,579,960

1,369,000

-13.8

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

90,880

103,670

82,180

-9 .6

99,200
29,420
150,040
1,191,810
27,290

100,760
30,800
154,800
1,164,180
25,750

92,580
'35,840
127,560
1,010,290
20,130

-6.7
21.8
-15.0
-15.2
-26.2

1 Includes 3,010 employees in the occupation “first-line super­
visor-sales” and 2,230 employees in the sales engineer category; in

previous surveys these workers would have been included in the managerial
and professional categories.

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Table 18. Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and
percent of establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983
(SIC 34)

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

T o ta l.............. ......................................................................

1,368,930

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

82,180
4,480

6.00
.33

n.a.
3

n.a.
14

3,160
2,230

.23
.16

4
2

12
11

4,670
2,220
7,360
47,180
10,680

.34
.16
.54
3.45
.79

3
7
4

11
6
15

2
11

84

92,580
24,640

6.76
1.80

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

11,740
9,380
800
1,560

.86
.69
.06

n.a.

n.a.

2

.11

13
37

26
2
2

4,460

.33

3

15

1,680
4,260
2,500
30,680

.12

4
4
8
n.a.

5
10
4

Occupation

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .................................................. .....................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers.........................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Civil engineering technicians and
technologists............................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................

780
380
1,320
1,980
3,930
580
15,130
6,580

.31
.18
2.24
.06
.03
.10
.14
.29

.04

_

8
15
11
17
4
14

.

11

n.a.
2
1
2
2

8
2
24

.48

5
n.a.

n.a.

24,950

1.82

n.a.

n.a.

340

.02

21

(3)

1,010

.07

11

2

1,080

.08

7

3

1,980
17,850

.14
1.30

10

3

3

26

2,690
910

.2 0
.07

10

n.a.

3
n.a.

910

.0 7

n.a.

n.a.

760

.0 6

12

1

150

.01

20

5 ,7 0 0

.42

n.a.

n.a.

1,890
2,510

.14

7

.18

4

5
7

740

.0 5

6

3

560

.04

340

.0 2

6
n.a.

n.a.

1.11

Industrial eng ineering technicians

and technologists ....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Drafters.........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except health ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control.......................................................................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
See footnotes at end of table.

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2

Table 18. Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and
percent of establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 34)

Occupation

Operations and systems researchers and
analysts, except computer........................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity w riters...................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd ............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers ................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers.......................................................................................
Service occupations.......................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service .................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

340

0.02

19

1

750

.05

4

3

270
720

.02
.05

17
12

1
1

2,710

.20

n.a.

n.a.

35,840

2.62

n.a.

n.a.

3,010
2,230

.22
.16

4
6

6
3

10,320

.75

4

16

17,980
2,300

1.31
.17

3
8

27
3

127,550

9.32

n.a.

n.a.

3,750
27,980
1,200
1,430
2,320
560

.27
2.04
.09
.10
.17
.04

3
2
10
3
4
8

9
58
2
7
4
2

1,480
1,200

.11
.09

3
5

7
4

3,240
1,660
19,580
3,220
3,070
19,960

.24
.12
1.43
.24
.22
1.46

3
3
2
2
3
2

7
7
51
12
9
42

6,230

.46

n.a.

n.a.

580

.04

5

2

2,310
250
2,700
390
1,670

.17
.02
.20
.03
.12

4
11
3
11
2

7
1
7
1
9

25,810

1.89

n.a.

n.a.

7,620

.56

2

13

1,300

.09

8

2

7,050

.52

3

12

8,340

.61

2

16

1,500

.11

7

3

3,190

.23

19

3

20,120

1.47

n.a.

n.a.

1,300

.09

7

2

See footnotes at end of table.

88

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Table 18. Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and
percent of establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 34)

Occupation

Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders ................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers........................................................
Riggers.........................................................................................
Ali other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Pattern and model makers, m etal............................................
Precision layout workers, m etal................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,730

0.27

6

4

370

.03

14

14,120

1.03

n.a.

n.a.

13,520

.99

2

33

600
600

.04
.04

10
15

1
1

400
400

.03
.03

n.a.
10

n.a.
1

1,010,260

73.80

n.a.

n.a.

67,460

4.93

n.a.

n.a.

3,590

.26

4

8

930

.07

13

1

58,350

4.26

1

71

1,820

.13

6

5

2,770
13,260

.20
.97

6
3

4
18

26,800
53,770
18,660
5,350
4,230
17,490
820

1.96
3.93
1.36
.39
.31
1.28
.06

2
n.a.
4
6
8
2
12

25
n.a.
17
4
6
31
2

820

.06

8

2

810
530
5,060

.06
.04
.37

24
24
8

1
(3)
2

14,820
1,680
6,940

1.08
.12
.51

n.a.
10
4

n.a.
3
9

1,600

.12

16

2

2,550
2,050
116,180
30,380
31,970

.19
.15
8.49
2.22
2.34

8
15
n.a.
5
3

2
1
n.a.
24
28

7,540
2,460
6,790

.55
.18
.50

4
8
5

10
4
9

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Table 18. Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and
percent of establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 34)

Occupation

Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
Boilermakers...............................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision foundry mold and core m akers...............................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Sawing machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Shear and slitter machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Extruding and drawing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Rolling machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Forging machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Welding machine setters and
set-up operators........................................................................
Welding machine operators and tenders................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders.................................. ....................................................
Metal fabricators, structural
metal products...........................................................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine setters and set-up operators..................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic...............................................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic .................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

33,180
2,560
1,300
360
1,850
1,080
770

2.42
.19
.09
.03
.14
.08
.06

5
33
18
15
n.a.
18
15

13
(3)
1
1
n.a.
1
1

346,630

25.32

n.a.

n.a.

4,550

.33

5

8

20,460

1.49

3

13

10,140

.74

4

11

2,780

.20

9

3

12,660

.92

4

12

31,310

2.29

5

14

21,720

1.59

4

17

19,510

1.43

3

17

8,260

.60

4

14

2,800

.20

8

2

2,670

.20

7

2

5,170

.38

7

2

65,280

4.77

4

20

3,820

.28

6

3

9,580

.70

5

8

12,910

.94

6

6

22,510
19,910

1.64
1.45

4
5

17
10

1,680

.12

9

2

1,570

.11

12

2

23,060

1.68

5

11

1,440

.11

12

1

1,930

.14

15

1

9,740

.71

5

7

13,390

.98

4

8

2,600

.19

9

3

2,630

.19

10

2

880

.06

9

1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 18. Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and
percent of establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 34)

Occupation

Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Furnace operators and tenders................................................
Heaters, metal and plastic........................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Sawing machine operators and tenders.................................
Woodworking machine setters and set-up
operators, except sawing .......................................................
Woodworking machine operators and tenders,
except sawing..........................................................................
Printing press machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Printing and related machine operators
and tenders ..............................................................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Precision assemblers, m etal........................................................
Fitters, structural metal, precision...............................................
All other precision assemblers, m etal........................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Glaziers, manufacturing.............................................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers ...............................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, ha n d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, ne c ......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer .........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators .....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Crane and tower operators.......................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

2,650
1,460
700

0.19
.11
.05

6
8
12

3
2
1

6,860

.50

8

3

11,220

.82

6

3

55,850
450

4.08
.03

n.a.
14

n.a.
1

160

.01

16

ft

530

.04

18

ft

750

.05

12

460

.03

14

ft

480

.04

25

ft

730

.05

n.a.

n.a.

470

.03

8

1

10,160

.74

4

13

9,800

.72

4

11

1,650

.12

7

3

1,170

.09

12

1

6,170

.45

7

5

2,620

.19

10

1

9,030
17,440
13,790
3,650
152,050
2,600
20,310
840
17,300

.66
1.27
1.01
.27
11.11
.19
1.48
.06
1.26

7
n.a.
5
15
n.a.
12
4
13
4

2
n.a.
7
1
n.a.
1
8
1
13

103,970
7,030
850
340
510
9,520

7.59
.51
.06
.02
.04
.70

2
8
n.a.
11
11
n.a.

27
3
n.a.
1
1
n.a.

5,870

.43

4

9

3,320
330

.24
.02

4
12

9
1

590
30,010
650
3,410
23,790
1,200

.04
2.19
.05
.25
1.74
.09

13
n.a.
11
6
3
12

1
n.a.
1
4
27
1

960

.07

11

1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 18. Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and
percent of establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 34)

Occupation

Employment1

Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
Hand packers and packagers .....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,520

0.11

10

2

1,300
18,000
25,080
24,440

.09
1.31
1.83
1.79

19
4
2
3

1
8
28
21

32,480

2.37

3

11

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

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Machinery, Except Electrical and
Transportation Equipment

Manufacturers o f machinery and equipment, other
than electrical or transportation equipment, employed
just over 2 million workers in 1983, or 11 percent o f
manufacturing and 19 percent o f durable goods employ­
ment. The three largest employers o f these workers
were: Establishments manufacturing office, computing,
and accounting machines, with 24 percent o f industry
employment; establishments manufacturing metal
working machinery and equipment, 14 percent; and
establishments manufacturing construction, mining,
and materials handling equipment, 13 percent.
As shown in table 19, the 1.2 million production and
related workers accounted for 57 percent o f total in­
dustry employment. Professional, paraprofessional,
and technical workers ranked second with 17 percent.
The remaining employment was distributed as follows:
Clerical and administrative support workers, 14 per­

cent; managerial and administrative workers, 7 percent;
and sales and service workers, 3 percent and 2 percent,
respectively. Text table 13 provides data since 1977 by
occupational group.
The five most populous occupations in the industry
are listed in the tabulation below:

Machinists..................................
Assemblers and fabricators,
except machine, electrical,
electronic, and precision..........
First-line supervisors,
production................................
General managers and top
executives..................................
Secretaries..................................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

118,020

5.8

102,750

5.1

70,710

3.5

62,720
57,790

3.1
2.8

Text table 13. Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment: Employment by major occupational group, selected
years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1980

1977

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

2,174,070

2,497,290

2,026,830

-6.8

Managerial and administrative w orkers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w orkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

156,480

195,830

149,820

-4.3

292,680
39,800
279,890
. 1,368,450
36,770

369,290
44,140
332,490
1,515,640
39,900

340,620
163,060
287,560
1,153,170
31,830

16.4
58.4
2.7
-15.7
-13.4

previous surveys these workers would have been included in the managerial
and professional categories.

1 Includes 5,980 employees in the occupation “first-line super­
visor— sales” and 7,570 employees in the sales engineer category; in

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Table 19. Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983
(SIC 35)

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

7.39
.45

n.a.
3

n.a.
14

5,410
3,910

.27
.19

3
3

12
12

11,240
4,400
14,150
62,720
38,950

.55
.22
.70
3.09
1.92

4
5
4
1
7

11
6
14
79
12

340,620
61,640

16.81
3.04

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

22,550
16,320
2,230
4,000

1.11
.81
.11
.20

n.a.
3
7
11

n.a.
25
3
3

11,330

.56

3

17

5,990
4,330
17,440
122,700

.30
.21
.86
6.05

5
4
13
n.a.

7
8
n.a.

1,490
1,730
830
1,430
43,420
20,910
600
38,220
14,070

.07
.09
.04
.07
2.14
1.03
.03
1.89
.69

7
19
17
33
8
7
6
3
10

2
1
1
(3)
13
15
2
28
4

83,830

4.14

n.a.

n.a.

29,350

1.45

5

10

4,520

.22

7

4

7,640
31,010

.38
1.53

6
2

31

11,310
1,590
260
1,000
330

.56
.08
.01
.05
.02

n.a.
n.a.
46
20
19

n.a.
n.a.
(3)
1
(3)

1,980

.10

n.a.

n.a.

1,620

.08

13

1

360

.02

17

(3)

41,500

2.05

n.a.

n.a.

12,120
23,740
2,340

.60
1.17
.12

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

T o ta l....................................................................................

2,026,770

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.................................................................. .
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

149,810
9,030

Occupation

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers............................... ........................................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers.........................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Agricultural engineers................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety ..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................

5

E n g in e e r in g a n d r e la te d t e c h n ic ia n s

and technologists......................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters................. .......................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physicists and astronomers......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists......................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except health ................................ ;................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists...............................................
Computer scientists and related
workers ....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing ......................................................................
Computer programmers............................................................
Computer programmer aid es...................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

94

7
13
9

5

7
9
3

Table 19. Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 35)

Occupation

Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control........................................................................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts, except computer........................................................
All other mathematical scientists................................................
Lawyers ..........................................................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Writers and editors........................................................................
Technical writers...........................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity writers...................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations..................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists .............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks........................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks .........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators....................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.................................................. .......................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,300
3,560

0.16
.18

8
n.a.

6
n.a.

2,560
1,000
740

.13
.05
.04

18
n.a.
9

1
n.a.
1

1,330
1,240
3,670

.07
.06
.18

5
11
6

3
1
4

640
4,680

.03
.23

11
8

1
3

11,520

.57

n.a.

n.a.

63,060

3.11

n.a.

n.a.

5,980
7,570

.30
.37

5
5

6
5

23,710

1.17

5

17

19,980
5,820

.99
.29

4
11

20
4

287,540

14.19

n.a.

n.a.

11,690
57,790
3,020
2,270
4,860
2,400

.58
2.85
.15
.11
.24
.12

7
11
4
4
7

9
58
3
6
6
3

2,760
2,400

.14
.12

4
5

7
4

7,210
3,460
1,230
28,210

.36
.17
.06
1.39

5
4
9

8
8

4 ,3 1 0

5,460
38,200

2

2

47

.21

2
3

.27
1.88

4
6

8
38

16,810

.83

n.a.

n.a.

770

.04

15

1

7,030
1,210
5,850
1,950
2,790

.35
.06
.29
.10
.14

6
11
3
13
3

8
1
9

80,780

3.99

n.a.

n.a.

25,640

1.27

5

13

1,200

.06

11

1

27,190

1.34

3

26

23,740

1.17

2

35

See footnotes at end of table.

95

10

2

9

Table 19. Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 35)

Occupation

All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
w orkers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
All other agriculture, forestry, fishing, and
related workers...........................................................................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics..............................................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists................................................................................
Farm equipment mechanics.....................................................
Data processing equipment repairers.....................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers.......................................................
Precision instrument repairers.................................................
Riggers........................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers.......................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving.......................................................................................
Carpenters..................................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,010

0.15

7

3

11,890

.59

17

3

31,810

1.57

n.a.

n.a.

2,100
5,300

.10
.26

6
5

3
4

1,080

.05

14

1

22,470

1.11

n.a.

n.a.

21,610

1.07

3

33

860
860

.04
.04

14
15

1
1

780
570

.04
.03

n.a.
8

n.a.
1

210

.01

30

1,153,150

56.90

n.a.

n.a.

80,730

3.98

n.a.

n.a.

4,550

.22

5

7

1,000

.05

12

1

70,710

3.49

2

60

2,030

.10

6

4

2,440
36,720

.12
1.81

6
4

4
22

24,880
60,100
11,510
4,230
2,780
21,520
860

1.23
2.97
.57
.21
.14
1.06
.04

4
n.a.
4
8
11
3
12

12
n.a.
7
3
3
27
1

920
390
7,750

.05
.02
.38

18
28
32

1
(3)
1

1,720
1,600
320
6,500

.08
.08
.02
.32

g
15
18
n.a.

2
1
(3)
n.a.

18,420
1,930

.91
.10

n.a.
11

n.a.
3

See footnotes at end of table.

%

(3)

Table 19. Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 35)

Occupation

Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Precision layout workers, m etal................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Pattern and model makers, w ood............................................
All other precision woodworkers..............................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision foundry mold and core m akers...............................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Sawing machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Shear and slitter machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Forging machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic .....................................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Welding machine setters and
set-up operators........................................................................
Welding machine operators and tenders................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine setters and set-up operators..................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

9,240

0.46

5

7

2,050

.10

5

3

3,960
1,240
208,870
52,080
118,020

.20
.06
10.31
2.57
5.82

9
33
n.a.
3
2

2
1
n.a.
29
57

9,330
2,710
22,800
3,930
4,380
3,700
680
4,870
2,190
2,680

.46
.13
1.12
.19
.22
.18
.03
.24
.11
.13

6
7
4
n.a.
n.a.
10
25
n.a.
11
19

6
3
13
n.a.
n.a.
2
(3)
n.a.
1
1

318,230

15.70

n.a.

n.a.

5,420

.27

4

10

36,640

1.81

2

24

25,640

1.27

3

18

15,850

.78

4

12

33,530

1.65

4

18

47,170

2.33

4

14

9,340

.46

5

8

6,240

.31

5

4

2,720

.13

5

3

1,550

.08

15

1

19,570

.97

5

9

29,180

1.44

3

17

13,870

.68

5

8

11,150

.55

6

6

25,800
14,170

1.27
.70

3
5

19
10

2,730

.13

8

3

2,120

.10

9

2

1,960

.10

15

1

1,640

.08

12

1

820

.04

12

1

980

.05

11

1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 19. Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 35)

Occupation

Employment1

Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic................................ ................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Furnace operators and tenders................................................
Heaters, metal and plastic........................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Sawing machine operators and tenders.................................
Electronic semiconductor processors......................................
Boiler operators and tenders,
low pressure.............................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Precision assemblers, m etal........................................................
Machine builders and other precision machine
assemblers..................................................................................
Electromechanical equipment assemblers,
precision ......................................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers,
precision ......................................................................................
All other precision assemblers, m etal........................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Machine assemblers......... .........................................................
Electrical and electronic assemblers.......................................
Coil winders, tapers, and finishers...........................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, ha n d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, ne c......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
traile r.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators .....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators.......................................................
Crane and tower operators......................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

220

0.01

19

0

260

.01

27

0

1,370

.07

8

1

2,720
1,130
340

.13
.06
.02

6
8
13

3
1

4,100

.20

9

1

5,220

.26

9

2

33,720
470
1,080

1.66
.02
.05

n.a.
11
34

n.a.
1
0

540

.03

18

1

5,810

.29

4

9

4,920

.24

5

7

1,520

.07

8

2

1,180

.06

12

1

4,800

.24

21

1

2,420

.12

n.a.

5,760
93,180

.28
4.60

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

35,520

1.75

4

13

20,100

.99

14

3

32,570
4,990
194,310
21,000
26,870
1,500
26,230
3,040
6,960

1.61
.25
9.59
1.04
1.33
.07
1.29
.15
.34

7
9
n.a.
5
8
16
4
11
7

6
1
' n.a.
7
5
1
9
1
4

102,750
5,960
2,050
800
1,250
6,170

5.07
.29
.10
.04
.06
.30

3
8
n.a.
11
36
n.a.

21
2
n.a.
1
1
n.a.

3,260

.16

9

5

2,540
370

.13
.02

4
11

7
1

620
22,600
420
2,600

.03
1.12
.02
.13

21
n.a.
19
8

0
n.a.
(3)
2

See footnotes at end of table.

)

98

0

-

n.a.

Table 19. Machinery, except electrical and transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 35)

Occupation

Employment1

Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders.............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, h a n d ................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

17,560
800

0.87
.04

3
21

14
(3)

1,220
2,560

.06
.13

10
8

1
2

710
4,090
18,220

.04
.20
.90

14
7
4

(3)
3
13

17,720

.87

6

6

' Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate "All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

99

Electrical and Electronic Machinery,
Equipment, and Supplies

Manufacturers o f electrical and electronic machinery,
equipment, and supplies employed just under 2.0
million workers, or 11 percent o f manufacturing and 19
percent o f durable goods employment in 1983.
Establishments manufacturing electronic components
and accessories employed 29 percent of the industry’s
workers; establishments manufacturing communica­
tions equipment, 28 percent; and those manufacturing
electrical industrial apparatus, 10 percent.
The industry employed nearly 1.2 million production
and related workers, accounting for almost three-fifths
o f total industry employment (table 20). Professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers accounted for
20 percent. Clerical and administrative support
workers, primarily office clerical workers, accounted
for 12 percent. The remaining employment was
distributed as follows: Managerial and administrative
workers, 6 percent; and sales and service workers, 2 and

1 percent, respectively. Text table 14 shows employment
by major occupational group since 1977.
The five most populous occupations in manufactur­
ing electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and
supplies are listed in the tabulation below:

Assemblers and fabricators,
except machine, electrical,
electronic, and precision..........
Electrical and electronic
assemblers................................
Electrical and electronic
engineers....................................
Electrical and electronic
engineering technicians and
technologists.............................
First-line supervisors,
production................................

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

184,210

9.1

174,440

8.6

106,110

5.3

60,500

3.0

59,310

2.9

Text table 14. Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies: Employment by major occupational group, selected
years, 1977-83
Major occupational
group

1977

1980

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,882,730

2,079,640

2,017,110

7.1

Managerial and administrative workers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers........................................................
Clerical w o rkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rke rs...................................................

105,240

133,520

123,420

17.3

305,090
20,140
222,600
1,201,160
28,500

385,600
20,390
255,900
1,254,920
29,310

401,800
’34,460
243,560
1,183,940
29,500

31.7
71.1
9.4
-1.4
3.5

1 Includes 4,480 employees in the occupation "first-line supervisor— sales" and 6,080 employees in the sales engineer category; in

previous surveys these workers would have been included in the managerial
and professional categories.

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Table 20. Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983
(SIC 36)

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

6.12
.49

n.a.
7

n.a.
31

5,640
4,060

.28
.20

5
5

29
26

9,390
5,760
16,970
33,540
38,180

.47
.29
.84
1.66
1.89

6
8
8
3
9

24
14
32
86
27

401,810
70,600

19.92
3.50

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

20,410
14,440
2,320
3,650

1.01
.72
.12
.18

n.a.
5
8
11

n.a.
41
8
6

13,930

.69

3

52

5,910
3,500
26,850
167,520

.29
.17
1.33
8.30

6
7
8
n.a.

18
11
11
n.a.

1,610
3,320
1,240
106,110
18,690
830
19,380
16,340

.08
.16
.06
5.26
.93
.04
.96
.81

11
10
38
2
8
11
8
13

4
5
1
49
30
5
29
9

108,420

5.37

n.a.

n.a.

60,500

3.00

7

39

4,380

.22

25

9

8,050
23,270

.40
1.15

24
6

8
43

12,220
3,120
1,820
1,060
240

.61
.15
.09
.05
.01

n.a.
n.a.
44
11
18

n.a.
n.a.
1
4
1

2,540

.13

n.a.

n.a.

2,080

.10

12

4

460

.02

20

1

28,580

1.42

n.a.

n.a.

10,460
13,830
2,720

.52
.69
.13

19
13
14

15
19
8

1,570

.08

13

4

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

T o ta l....................................................................................

2,017,120

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

123,420
9,880

Occupation

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers.........................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physicists and astronomers......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h e alth ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control.......................................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 20. Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 36)

Occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts, except computer........................................................
All other mathematical scientists................................................
Mathematical technicians.............................................................
Lawyers..........................................................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Writers and editors........................................................................
Technical writers...........................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity writers ...................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................

1,730

0.09

n.a.

n.a.

1,140
380
210
940

.06
.02
.01
.05

18
n.a.
37
12

3
n.a.
0
3

1,640
1,130
3,530

.08
.06
.18

6
12
11

9
4
7

810
3,570

.04
.18

10
12

4
6

7,680

.38

n.a.

n.a.

Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................

34,460

1.71

n.a.

n.a.

4,480
6,080

.22
.30

6
7

13
10

12,210

.61

7

25

8,700
2,990

.43
.15

7
8

16
7

243,570

12.08

n.a.

n.a.

9,590
44,270
3,200
1,920
8,800
3,000

.48
2.19
.16
.10
.44
.15

8
5
14
4
5
11

20
70
5
15
21
7

3,580
2,220

.18
.11

4
6

20
9

9,060
4,280
1,470
17,730
5,150
4,980
23,220

.45
.21
.07
.88
.26
.25
1.15

4
9
13
6
3
4
9

28
18
4
51
31
18
39

16,140

n.a.

Clerical and administrative support
occupations.............................................. ...................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping .........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard ............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks................................. .......................................................

.80

n.a.

680

.03

11

2

6,170
860
6,560
1,870
2,730

.31
.04
.33
.09
.14

11
9
4
10
4

17
3
19
3
21

71,510

3.55

n.a.

n.a.

26,010

1.29

10

31

2,640

.13

25

4

21,790

1.08

4

43

17,870

.89

3

54

See footnotes at end of table.

102

Table 20. Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 36)

Occupation

All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers.........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers........................ ................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households.....................................
All other service workers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations..................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations..................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers ......................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers.........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists..................................................................................
Data processing equipment repairers........ ..............................
Electronic home entertainment equipment
repairers.....................................................................................
Electric motor, transformer, and related
repairers....................................................................................
Electronics repairers, commercial and
industrial equipment................................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers........................................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Electromedical and biomedical equipment
repairers....................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,200

0.16

8

6

10,720

.53

43

7

29,510

1.46

n.a.

n.a.

2,260
6,530

.11
.32

13
8

8
9

860

.04

15

1

18,320

.91

n.a.

n.a.

17,710

.88

5

41

610
1,540

.03
.08

11
33

3
1

430
430

.02
.02

n.a.
11

n.a.
2

1,183,920

58.69

n.a.

n.a.

68,290

3.39

n.a.

n.a.

4,320

.21

8

15

590

.03

12

2

59,310

2.94

4

70

1,490

.07

5

8

2,580
48,220

.13
2.39

8
6

8
35

56,600
54,220
14,570
3,010
1,940
17,450

2.81
2.69
.72
.15
.10
.87

4
n.a.
5
9
10
4

37
n.a.
14
4
5
36

470
1,710

.02
.08

8
35

2
1

1,390

.07

36

1

1,040

.05

13

2

5,230

.26

18

4

1,000
2,920

.05
.14

12
12

3
4

240
3,250

.01
.16

24
n.a.

0
n.a.

See footnotes at end of table.

103

Table 20. Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 36)

Occupation

Construction trades workers, except material
moving.........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters............................. * ................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Precision layout workers, m etal................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision foundry mold and core m akers...............................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Shear and slitter machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Forging machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Welding machine setters and
set-up operators........................................................................
Welding machine operators and tenders................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine operators
and tenders.............................................................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine setters and set-up operators.................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine operators and tenders ...........................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic.......................................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

14,860
1,490
8,780

0.74
.07
.44

n.a.
7
6

n.a.
5
15

1,200

.06

7

4

2,510
880
52,270
17,230
21,550

.12
.04
2.59
.85
1.07

11
17
n.a.
5
8

4
1
n.a.
24
30

2,140
1,020
8,510
1,820
590
2,390
480
1,910

.11
.05
.42
.09
.03
.12
.02
.09

15
9
6
16
17
n.a.
17
22

6
3
13
2
1
n.a.
1
2

130,990

6.49

n.a.

n.a.

7,950

.39

6

11

5,680

.28

7

9

2,510

.12

14

4

3,350

.17

8

5

15,760

.78

8

10

8,690

.43

11

13

3,930

.19

7

6

1,470

.07

7

5

1,220

.06

17

1

11,840

.59

7

8

5,670

.28

10

8

5,260

.26

10

6

4,540

.23

12

5

3,360
4,610

.17
.23

6
13

8
5

1,870

.09

14

5

3,090

.15

16

5

4,960

.25

13

5

9,860

.49

8

5

1,750

.09

10

2

1,670

.08

11

2

5,070

.25

16

6

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 20. Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 36)

Occupation

Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic.................................................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Furnace operators and tenders................................................
Heaters, metal and plastic........................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Printing press machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Electronic semiconductor processors......................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Precision assemblers, m etal........................................................
Machine builders and other precision machine
assemblers..................................................................................
Electromechanical equipment assemblers,
precision ......................................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers,
precision ......................................................................................
Watch, clock, and chronometer assemblers,
adjusters, and calibrators, precision ........................................
All other precision assemblers, m etal........................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Machine assemblers..................................................................
Electrical and electronic assemblers.......................................
Coil winders, tapers, and finishers...........................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, h a n d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, ne c......................................................

Employment’

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

5,320

0.26

13

6

940

.05

20

1

1,010

.05

15

1

400

.02

17

1

1,270
1,110
480

.06
.06
.02

14
14
15

2
2
1

6,350

.31

n.a.

n.a.

5,190

.26

15

3

90,630

4.49

n.a.

n.a.

1,060

.05

24

3

490

.02

28

1

2,460

.12

14

4

770

.04

27

1

730

.04

15

2

820
24,390

.04
1.21

25
15

2
4

4,900

.24

9

12

6,460

.32

6

11

1,050

.05

8

3

2,760

.14

11

4

7,730

.38

10

7

11,100

.55

21

3

20,720
132,190

1.03
6.55

10
n.a.

5
n.a.

4,060

.20

11

4

23,790

1.18

9

8

98,810

4.90

5

28

880
4,650
437,000
13,840
174,440
31,300
6,130
8,980
2,950

.04
.23
21.66
.69
8.65
1.55
.30
.45
.15

25
23
n.a.
9
3
6
8
9
10

1
1
n.a.
4
31
16
7
6
4

184,210
15,150

9.13
.75

4
12

33
6

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 20. Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies: Employment, relative error, and percent of
establishments reporting selected occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 36)

Occupation

Employment'

Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
traile r.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators.....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Crane and tower operators.......................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders.............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers..........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................
1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other" categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)1
2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,660
1,040
620
6,050

0.08
.05
.03
.30

n.a.
12
17
n.a.

n.a.
2
2
n.a.

3,240

.16

10

9

2,810

.14

7

15

510
18,690
350
970
13,000
2,830

.03
.93
.02
.05
.64
.14

n.a.
n.a.
21
12
5
19

n.a.
n.a.
1
2
15
2

1,540
1,670

.08
.08

15
8

2
4

920
10,150
22,290

.05
.50
1.11

35
17
7

1
5
22

33,730

1.67

8

11

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

Transportation Equipment

Establishments which manufacture transportation
equipment employed 1.7 million workers, or 10 percent
o f manufacturing and 16 percent o f durable goods
employment in 1983. Employers of these workers in­
cluded establishments manufacturing motor vehicles
and motor vehicle equipment, with 43 percent o f in­
dustry employment; those manufacturing aircraft and
parts, 33 percent; and those engaged in ship and boat
building and repairing, 11 percent.
Overall, total employment in the transportation
equipment industry declined by 87,400, or 5 percent,
between 1980 and 1983. Subsectors within the industry,
however, had widely different employment trends, as
the following tabulation shows.
1972
SIC
Code
Motor vehicles and
equipm ent............
Aircraft and parts ..
Ship and boat
building ................
Railroad equipment
Motorcycles,
bicycles, and parts.
Guided missile and
space vehicles........
Miscellaneous
transportation
equipm ent............

Employment
1980
1983

establishments that produced railroad equipment
declined by 59 percent and aircraft parts, by 12 percent.
The increase in military spending strongly affected the
guided missile and space vehicle industry. Employment
in this industry expanded by almost 29,000, an increase
o f 26 percent over 1980.
As shown in table 21, the transportation equipment
industry employed nearly 1.1 million production and
related workers, who accounted for 61 percent o f total
industry employment. Professional, paraprofessional,
and technical workers ranked second with 20 percent.
The remaining employment was distributed as follows:
Clerical workers, 10 percent; managerial and ad­
ministrative workers, 5 percent; service workers, 2 per­
cent; and sales workers, less than 1 percent o f total in­
dustry employment. Employment since 1977 by occupa­
tional group is given in text table 15.
The five most populous occupations in manufactur­
ing transportation equipment are listed below:

Percent
change

371
372

731,680
653,090

753,650
575,700

3.0
-11.8

373
374

213,880
72,290

186,900
29,800

-12.6
-58.7

375

19,900

15,300

-23.1

376

109,860

138,800

26.0

379

34,330

47,600

38.7

Assemblers and fabricators, except
machine, electrical, electronic,
and precision................................
Welders and cutters........................
First-line supervisors,
production....................................
Production inspectors, testers,
graders, sorters, samplers, and
weighers........................................
Machine tool cutting operators
and tenders, metal and plastic . . .

Employment among motor vehicle and equipment
producers increased by 3 percent, while employment in

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

173,050
45,760

9.9
2.6

45,500

2.6

44,450

2.5

38,500

2.2

Text table 15. Transportation equipment: Employment by major occupational group, selected years, 1977-83
1977

1980

1983

Percent change
1977-83

T o ta l..............................................................

1,889,390

1,835,070

1,747,670

- 7.5

Managerial and administrative workers.............
Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical workers.............................................
Sales workers.......................................................
Clerical w orkers...................................................
Production and related w orkers..........................
Service w o rkers...................................................

86,900

106,320

94,310

8.5

250,920
11,040
165,870
1,330,380
44,280

312,510
9,470
178,180
1,188,110
40,480

352,670
11,190
179,220
1,072,720
36,860

40.6
1.4
8.0
-19.4
-16.8

Major occupational
group

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Table 21. Transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983
(SIC 37)
Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

5.40
.37

n.a.
9

n.a.
24

3,820
2,810

.22
.16

10
10

22
18

5,270
4,360
13,920
18,520
39,230

.30
.25
.80
1.06
2.24

11
9
7
5
8

15
11
24
81
19

352,660
75,810

20.18
4.34

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

19,010
12,460
2,150
4,400

1.09
.71
.12
.25

n.a.
11
13
19

n.a.
20
6
5

14,270

.82

8

45

6,360
7,040
29,130
156,960

.36
.40
1.67
8.98

8
9
10
n.a.

13
13
9
n.a.

29,120

1.67

2

4

3,210
1,250
2,830
21,060
19,300
1,900
24,440
2,030
51,820
320

.18
.07
.16
1.21
1.10
.11
1.40
.12
2.97
.02

19
19
23
14
10
15
11
44
8
15

5
2
3
7
17
7
27
2
8
1

62,820

3.59

n.a.

n.a.

1,990

.11

37

1

10,680

.61

16

6

3,700

.21

22

6

8,440
17,750

.48
1.02

13
9

7
26

20,260
2,060
680
1,380

1.16
.12
.04
.08

13
n.a.
14
18

9
n.a.
2
1

2,040

.12

n.a.

n.a.

1,300

.07

24

2

740

.04

24

1

20,880

1.19

n.a.

n.a.

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

T o ta l....................................................................................

1,747,590

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers.......... .........................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers................................................... ..................
Administrative services m anagers..............................................
Industrial production managers........................................ ...........
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

94,320
6,390

Occupation

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists............................................................. .
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers.......................................................................................
Aeronautical and astronautical
engineers ................................................ ...................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers....................................... ..................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Civil engineers, including traffic................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Safety engineers, except mining..............................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
Marine engineers........................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Marine architects...........................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Civil engineering technicians and
technologists............................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists......................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h e alth ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists...............................................
Computer scientists and related
workers ....................................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 21. Transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 37)

Occupation

Systems analysts, electronic
data processing ........................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control........................................................................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts, except computer........................................................
Statisticians....................................................................................
All other mathematical scientists................................................
Mathematical technicians.............................................................
Lawyers ...........................................................................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Writers and editors........................................................................
Technical writers...........................................................................
Public relations specialists
and publicity writers ...................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations..................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries......................................................................................
Stenographers................................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists.............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Statistical clerks ............................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators....................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment..................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators.................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and
ambulance................................................................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................

Employment'

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

9,870
7,680
1,780

0.56
.44
.10

16
12
18

10
14
6

1,550
5,580

.09
.32

12
n.a.

5
n.a.

1,540
2,540
660
840
480

.09
.15
.04
.05
.03

22
15
29
37
11

3
3
(3)
1
3

1,930
960
5,020

.11
.05
.29

7
14
14

10
2
5

480
5,040

.03
.29

16
26

2
4

12,280

.70

n.a.

n.a.

11,180
1,740

.64
.10

n.a.
11

n.a.
3

2,860

.16

6

14

4,750
1,830

.27
.10

5
13

22
5

179,220

10.26

n.a.

n.a.

6,280
26,630
3,110
820
4,340
2,540

.36
1.52
.18
.05
.25
.15

5
7
13
7
10
15

15
60
4
10
10
5

2,230
1,230

.13
.07

11
13

12
4

2,130
2,060
4,490
9,660
3,220
2,360
19,700

.12
.12
.26
.55
.18
.14
1.13

9
8
14
4
6
8
9

8
11
4
53
19
12
41

11,540

.66

n.a.

n.a.

400

.02

11

2

3,540
1,300
4,620
1,680
1,340

.20
.07
.26
.10
.08

9
27
7
14
5

12
3
13
3
15

64,250

3.68

n.a.

n.a.

1,740

.10

21

4

25,990

1.49

8

31

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 21. Transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 37)

Occupation

Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
w orkers........................................................................................
Service occupations........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households.....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ....................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Transportation inspectors............................................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Millwrights....................................................................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Automotive mechanics ..............................................................
Automotive body and related repairers...................................
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine
specialists.................................................................................
Rail car repairers........................................................................
Aircraft mechanics......................................................................
Aircraft engine specialists.........................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,560

0.20

16

3

18,830

1.08

6

22

11,150

.64

5

41

2,980

.17

12

4

11,290

.65

17

6

36,880

2.11

n.a.

n.a.

2,500
11,880

.14
.68

8
7

7
12

760

.04

22

1

20,280

1.16

n.a.

n.a.

19,840

1.14

5

39

440
1,460

.03
.08

15
16

2
3

600
600

.03
.03

n.a.
14

n.a.
3

1,072,730

61.38

n.a.

n.a.

65,380

3.74

n.a.

n.a.

7,340

.42

7

14

4,260

.24

19

3

45,500

2.60

4

63

3,570

.20

7

10

4,710
29,500

.27
1.69

11
6

9
23

44,450
960
106,090
16,150
11,780
4,730
9,040
4,200
1,720

2.54
.05
6.07
.92
.67
.27
.52
.24
.10

3
26
n.a.
7
8
8
5
12
18

24
1
n.a.
12
7
12
31
10
2

3,140
1,050
11,280
1,280

.18
.06
.65
.07

13
19
15
24

4
1
3
2

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 21. Transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 37)

Occupation

Electronics repairers, commercial and
industrial equipment................................................................
Electrical installers and repairers,
transportation equipment........................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics and installers........................................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Riggers.........................................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving.........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
Insulation w orkers......................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Precision layout workers, m etal................................................
Shipfitters.....................................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
Boilermakers...............................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Pattern and model makers, w o od............................................
All other precision woodworkers..............................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Sawing machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Forging machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic .....................................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Welding machine setters and
set-up operators........................................................................
Welding machine operators and tenders................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,610

0.21

12

4

5,300

.30

14

6

1,610
2,060
3,820
25,320

.09
.12
.22
1.45

8
12
10
10

4
3
5
8

57,560
9,250
22,740

3.29
.53
1.30

n.a.
5
6

n.a.
19
21

5,790

.33

7

9

16,210
1,650
1,920
103,460
24,880
31,210

.93
.09
.11
5.92
1.42
1.79

6
30
17
n.a.
7
6

12
1
3
n.a.
16
32

4,980
2,360
9,890
21,840
2,180
6,120
4,380
3,570
810
4,010

.28
.14
.57
1.25
.12
.35
.25
.20
.05
.23

7
11
10
7
17
15
n.a.
20
18
20

9
5
6
17
1
3
n.a.
4
1
2

188,730

10.80

n.a.

n.a.

2,480

.14

15

8

15,850

.91

9

14

10,980

.63

10

12

9,250

.53

9

9

13,040

.75

11

15

38,500

2.20

3

13

3,840

.22

8

8

5,090

.29

9

7

6,820

.39

16

3

17,540

1.00

8

11

9,370

.54

9

6

8,990

.51

11

8

3,990

.23

11

5

7,050
16,080

.40
.92

7
9

14
10

870

.05

13

3

590

.03

16

1

See footnotes at end of table.

Ill

Table 21. Transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 37)

Occupation

Plastic molding and casting machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine setters and set-up operators..................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic................................................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Sawing machine operators and tenders.................................
Woodworking machine setters and set-up
operators, except sawing .......................................................
Woodworking machine operators and tenders,
except sawing..........................................................................
Painters, transportation equipment..........................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders............................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
Precision assemblers, m etal........................................................
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and
systems assemblers, precision.................................................
Machine builders and other precision machine
assemblers..................................................................................
Electromechanical equipment assemblers,
precision......................................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers,
precision......................................................................................
All other precision assemblers, m etal........................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Machine assemblers.................................................................
Flectrical and electronic assemblers......................................
Welders and cutters..................................................................
Solderers and brazers..............................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, h a n d ....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
All other hand workers, ne c.....................................................
Plant and system workers ..........................................................
Stationary engineers.................................................................
All other plant and system operators.....................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,420

0.08

15

2

2,650

.15

16

1

990

.06

23

1

520

.03

15

1

730

.04

16

2

1,440

.08

11

2

430

.02

21

1

230

.01

20

1

1,110

.06

13

3

2,680

.15

9

5

6,200

.35

14

3

6,780

.39

11

4

60,700
750

3.47
.04

n.a.
13

n.a.
2

500

.03

20

2

970
9,370

.06
.54

13
10

3
8

3,210

.18

7

14

3,960

.23

8

13

990

.06

9

4

3,010

.17

12

3

31,160
47,710

1.78
2.73

2
n.a.

n.a.

20,210

1.16

13

3

7,570

.43

15

4

3,150

.18

13

2

9,600
7,180
266,280
8,730
9,470
45,760
1,900
13,210

.55

13
19
n.a.
6
13
15
9

3
2
n.a.
4
4
33
3
8

1

41

173,050
14,160
3,070
1,130
1,940

See footnotes at end of table.

112

.41
15.24
.50
.54
2.62
.11

.76

5

7

9.90
.81
.18
.06

7

7

n.a.
10

.11

15

n.a.
3
4

Table 21. Transportation equipment: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting selected
occupations, June 1983—Continued
(SIC 37)

Occupation

Employment1

Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer..........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators.....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Crane and tower operators.......................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

10,440

0.60

n.a.

n.a.

5,020

.29

6

20

2,040
3,380

.12
.19

6
11

11
3

2,180
29,260
500
3,560
20,930
3,230

.12
1.67
.03
.20
1.20
.18

33
n.a.
18
8
6
15

3
n.a.
2
8
22
1

1,040
2,090

.06
.12

11
13

2
5

1,270
7,670
10,400

.07
.44
.60

11
19
5

2
4
21

27,140

1.55

7

14

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

113

Instruments and Related
Products

In 1983, establishments manufacturing instruments,
ophthalmic goods, photographic equipment and sup­
plies, and watches and clocks employed 688,150
workers, accounting for 4 percent o f manufacturing and
6 percent o f durable goods employment. Workers in
establishments producing measuring and controlling in­
struments constituted 34 percent o f industry employ­
ment; establishments manufacturing surgical, medical,
and dental instruments and supplies accounted for 24
percent; and those manufacturing photographic equip­
ment and supplies, 19 percent.
The industry’s 351,250 production and related
workers accounted for 51 percent o f total industry
employment (table 22). Professional, paraprofessional,
and technical workers ranked second with 19 percent.

Clerical workers accounted for 16 percent; managerial
and administative workers, 8 percent; sales and service
workers, 4 and 2 percent, respectively.
The tabulation below lists the five most populous oc­
cupations in the industry:

Assemblers and fabricators, except
machine, electrical, electronic,
and precision................................
Electrical and electronic
assemblers....................................
Electrical and electronic engineers.
Secretaries......................................
First-line supervisors, production .

114

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

59,620

8.7

24,820
24,800
23,840
22,510

3.6
3.6
3.5
3.3

Table 22. Instruments and related products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983
(SIC 38)

Occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

T o ta l.....................................................................................

688,120

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

56,990
4,050

8.28
.59

n.a.
11

n.a.
23

2,320
1,690

.34
.25

6
6

21
19

5,690
2,000
6,050
19,900
15,290

.83
.29
.88
2.89
2.22

8
8
7
3
11

21
11
22
84
20

132,560
21,600

19.26
3.14

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

6,270
4,040
1,140
1,090

.91
.59
.17
.16

n.a.
5
20
10

n.a.
20
6
6

6,110

.89

3

45

2,210
1,060
5,950
46,700

.32
.15
.86
6.79

11
8
19
n.a.

12
7
9
n.a.

320
1,320
24,800
5,480
7,420
7,360

.05
.19
3.60
.80
1.08
1.07

12
15
8
16
6
n.a.

2
4
35
15
19
n.a.

38,650

5.62

n.a.

n.a.

18,930

2.75

4

32

1,170

.17

11

5

5,420
8,530

.79
1.24

26
5

8
37

4,600
3,000
280
1,790
930
770

.67
.44
.04
.26
.14
.11

11
n.a.
17
14
41
20

7
n.a.
2
5
1
2

3,510

.51

n.a.

n.a.

2,730

.40

14

5

780

.11

19

2

8,160

1.19

n.a.

n.a.

3,010
3,910
910

.44
.57
.13

10
16
8

12
15
7

330
390

.05
.06

9
n.a.

3
n.a.

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts.......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Metallurgists, and metallurgical, ceramic,
and materials engineers.........................................................
Chemical engineers....................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers..........................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineering
technicians and technologists................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physicists and astronomers......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists..................................................
All other physical scientists ......................................................
Life scientists.................................................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except health ..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
Computer programmer aid es....................................................
Programmers - numerical, tool, and process
control.......................................................................................
Mathematical scientists and related workers............................
See footnotes at end of table.

115

Table 22. Instruments and related products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 38)

Occupation

Operations and systems researchers and
analysts, except computer........................................................
Opticians, dispensing and measuring.........................................
All other health professionals,
paraprofessional and technicians.............................................
Writers and editors........................................................................
Technical writers...........................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers ..................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................
Sales engineers.............................................................................
Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers............................................................... ................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Peripheral EDP equipment operators......................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage y a rd .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers ................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
w orkers.......................................................................................
Service occupations.......................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service .................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

390
1,490

0.06
.22

19
13

2
3

1,200
640
1,390
1,850

.17
.09
.20
.27

15
20
10
13

6
4
8
6

3,210

.47

n.a.

n.a.

25,680

3.73

n.a.

n.a.

3,300
3,040

.48
.44

8
9

10
7

12,730

1.85

6

28

4,970
1,640

.72
.24

8
10

16
5

109,590

15.93

n.a.

n.a.

3,930
23,840
720
960
3,500
1,600

.57
3.46
.10
.14
.51
.23

6
5
16
6
9
6

15
70
2
11
16
12

1,220
1,690

.18
.25

5
14

13
8

5,160
1,520
9,920
1,370
2,100
10,040

.75
.22
1.44
.20
.31
1.46

6
7
3
3
4
6

16
13
57
16
14
40

5,940

.86

n.a.

n.a.

350

.05

21

2

2,210
330
2,680
370
2,080

.32
.05
.39
.05
.30

7
10
5
16
3

13
2
13
2
26

29,030

4.22

n.a.

n.a.

8,310

1.21

6

21

520

.08

15

2

10,550

1.53

7

37

8,860

1.29

3

48

790

.11

11

4

4,970

.72

44

5

11,840

1.72

n.a.

n.a.

1,200

.17

10

6

See footnotes at end of table.

116

Table 22. Instruments and related products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 38)

Occupation

Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
workers.........................................................................................
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households.....................................
All other service w orkers.............................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations.................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ...........................
Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers......................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - construction trades
and extractive workers............................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
All other first-line supervisors and manager/
supervisors - production, construction,
maintenance and related........................................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Precision instrument repairers..................................................
Camera and photographic equipment repairers.....................
Watchmakers..............................................................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters....................................................................................
Electricians...................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Precision instrument makers.....................................................
Machinists ....................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders....................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters .............................................................................
Precision optical goods workers ..............................................
Medical appliance makers ........................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,690

0.25

13

4

420

.06

29

1

7,590

1.10

n.a.

n.a.

6,710

.98

4

33

880
940

.13
.14

25
29

2
2

240
240

.03
.03

n.a.
15

n.a.
2

351,220

51.04

n.a.

n.a.

25,550

3.71

n.a.

n.a.

1,180

.17

7

7

200

.03

15

1

22,510

3.27

4

64

1,660
12,450

.24
1.81

10
5

6
30

15,820
16,320
4,030
790
5,640
4,340
300
160
1,060

2.30
2.37
.59
.11
.82
.63
.04
.02
.15

9
n.a.
12
23
14
15
42
30
n.a.

23
n.a.
11
2
23
10

3,820
530
1,710

.56
.08
.25

n.a.
11
18

n.a.
4
7

430

.06

15

3

680
470
24,940
3,920
4,160
12,130

.10
.07
3.62
.57
.60
1.76

19
25
n.a.
7
10
4

2
1
n.a.
12
7
34

1,550
2,650
530
390
14,820

.23
.39
.08
.06
2.15

11
11
17
46
n.a.

7
8
1
1
n.a.

120
10,600
2,190
1,910

.02
1.54
.32
.28

23

1

6

13

23
24

4
3

See footnotes at end of table.

117

ft
ft
n.a.

Table 22. Instruments and related products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 38)

Occupation

Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Sawing machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Press and press brake machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Shear and slitter machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine setters and set-up operators..................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic................................................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic..........................................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment................................
Electronic semiconductor processors......................................
Chemical equipment controllers and
operators..................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators.................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ...........................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

30,840

4.48

n.a.

n.a.

190

.03

14

2

3,740

.54

7

11

2,200

.32

8

8

1,150

.17

12

5

1,450

.21

17

3

3,930

.57

12

7

1,930

.28

11

7

540

.08

13

2

760

.11

27

2

4,870

.71

11

7

2,130

.31

8

7

1,670

.24

9

6

1,980

.29

11

4

210

.03

19

1

330

.05

19

1

570

.08

18

1

350

.05

19

1

400

.06

17

2

390

.06

13

2

130

.02

36

290

.04

26

1

160

.02

46

1

140

.02

21

1

1,330

.19

21

2

3,330

.48

17

2

40,530
3,400
1,050

5.89
.49
.15

n.a.
12
41

n.a.
5
1

2,550

.37

36

1

1,150

.17

19

3

2,130

.31

19

3

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 22. Instruments and related products: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, April 1983—Continued
(SIC 38)

Occupation

Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic........................................................
Precision assemblers, m etal........................................................
Machine builders and other precision machine
assemblers..................................................................................
Electromechanical equipment assemblers,
precision.......................................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers,
precision......................................................................................
Watch, clock, and chronometer assemblers,
adjusters, and calibrators, precision........................................
All other precision assemblers, m etal........................................
Other hand workers, nec .............................................................
Machine assemblers..................................................................
Electrical and electronic assemblers.......................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ..........................................................................
Grinding and polishing workers, han d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, ne c......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Stationary engineers..................................................................
All other plant and system operators......................................
Motor vehicle operators...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer.........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators .....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................
All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand................................
Hand packers and packagers .....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

380

0.06

12

2

2,440

.35

13

5

5,450

.79

12

6

2,140

.31

22

2

18,510
35,030

2.40
5.09

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

1,460

.21

29

2

9,530

1.38

21

4

18,850

2.74

8

18

3,170
2,020
104,110
3,990
24,820
2,640
2,530

.46
.29
15.13
.58
3.61
.38
.37

30
22
n.a.
17
7
9
9

2
1
n.a.
3
18
11
7

1,280
3,390

.19
.49

11
9

8
8

59,620
5,840
790
470
320
970

8.66
.85
.11
.07
.05
.14

5
18
n.a.
31
n.a.
n.a.

31
3
n.a.
1
n.a.
n.a.

200

.03

17

2

770

.11

7

8

140
2,480
1,820
140

.02
.36
.26
.02

n.a.
n.a.
11
31

n.a.
n.a.
4
0

520
430

.08
.06

30
18

1
2

180
2,080
6,060
7,440

.02
.30
.88
1.08

29
17
6
17

<*)
3
15
8

6,050

.88

11

5

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimated
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

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Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Industries

Establishments which manufacture products other
than those previously discussed employed 369,830
workers in 1983, or 2 percent o f manufacturing and 3
percent o f durable goods employment. O f these
workers, 33 percent worked in establishments manufac­
turing brooms and brushes, signs and advertising
displays, burial caskets, and other miscellaneous pro­
ducts; 29 percent worked in establishments manufactur­
ing toys and amusement, sporting, and athletic goods;
and 14 percent worked in establishments producing
jewelry, silverware, and plated ware.
As shown in table 23, the largest occupational group
in miscellaneous manufacturing industries, consisting of
255,110 production and related workers, accounted for
69 percent o f total industry employment. Clerical
workers ranked second with 14 percent. The remaining
employment was distributed as follows: Managerial and

administrative workers, 7 percent; professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers, 5 percent;
sales workers, 4 percent; and service workers, 1 percent.
The five most populous occupations in miscellaneous
manufacturing industries are listed in the tabulation
below:

Assemblers and fabricators, except
machine, electrical, electronic,
and precision................................
Hand packers and packagers........
General managers and top
executives......................................
First-line supervisors, production .
Secretaries......................................

120

Employment

Percent o f
industry
employment

40,750
18,020

11.0
4.9

17,260
14,470
9,380

4.7
3.9
2.5

Table 23. Miscellaneous manufacturing industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, May 1983
(SIC 39)

Occupation

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

_

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

_

T o ta l....................................................................................

369,770

100.00

Managerial and administrative occupations.................................
Financial managers.......................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations managers.....................................................................
Purchasing managers...................................................................
Marketing, advertising, and public
relations managers.....................................................................
Administrative services managers ..............................................
Industrial production managers...................................................
General managers and top executives......................................
All other managers and administrators......................................

24,970
1,210

6.75
.33

n.a.
4

n.a.
8

580
520

.16
.14

4
3

6
6

1,550
390
1,730
17,260
1,730

.42
.11
.47
4.67
.47

6
7
6
2
5

7
3
9
81
6

18,820
6,960

5.09
1.88

n.a.
n.a.

n.a.
n.a.

3,260
2,670
210
380

.88
.72
.06
.10

n.a.
5
10
13

n.a.
17
2
2

2,210

.60

3

20

340
430
720
2,220
750
950
520

.09
.12
.19
.60
.20
.26
.14

10
6
11
n.a.
5
8
12

3
3
2
n.a.
5
5
2

2,620

.71

n.a.

n.a.

240

.06

7

2

240
1,560

.06
.42

12
4

1
10

.16
.05

12
n.a.

2
n.a.

370

.10

n.a.

n.a.

250

.07

10

1

120

.03

27

1,610

.44

n.a.

n.a.

620
710

.17
.19

10
5

3
5

280

.08

n.a.

n.a.

130
4,070

.04
1.10

9
4

1
20

640

.17

n.a.

n.a.

13,660

3.69

n.a.

n.a.

990

.27

7

4

Professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations................................................................
Management support workers.....................................................
Accountants, auditors, and other
financial specialists..................................................................
Accountants and auditors.......................................................
Budget analysts .......................................................................
All other financial specialists..................................................
Purchasing agents, except wholesale
and retail trade, and farm products......................................
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists.................................................................
Cost estimators...........................................................................
All other management support workers..................................
Engineers .......................................................................................
Industrial engineers, except sa fety ..........................................
Mechanical engineers................................................................
All other engineers.....................................................................
Engineering and related technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Industrial engineering technicians
and technologists....................................................................
Mechanical engineering technicians
and technologists ....................................................................
Drafters........................................................................................
All other engineering and related
technicians and technologists................................................
Physical scientists.........................................................................
Physical and life science technicians
and technologists......................................................................
Chemical technicians and
technologists, except h ealth..................................................
All other physical and life science
technicians and technologists................................................
Computer scientists and related
workers .....................................................................................
Systems analysts, electronic
data processing .......................................................................
Computer programmers.............................................................
All other computer systems analysts,
programmers, and programmer aides ..................................
Health practitioners, technologists,
technicians, and related
health workers............................................................................
Designers, except interior designers..........................................
All other professional,
paraprofessional, and technical workers.................................
Sales and related occupations ......................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, sales
and related workers...................................................................

580
200

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 23. Miscellaneous manufacturing industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 39)

Occupation

Sales representatives, scientific and related
products and services, except retail........................................
Sales representatives, except scientific and
related products or services and retail....................................
All other sales and related workers ...........................................
Clerical and administrative support
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors and manager/supervisors,
clerical and administrative support workers ...........................
Secretaries.....................................................................................
Stenographers ...............................................................................
Receptionists and information clerks.........................................
Typists ............................................................................................
Typists, word processing equipment..........................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping.................................................................................
File clerks.......................................................................................
Order clerks, materials, merchandise, and
service..........................................................................................
Procurement clerks.......................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks..........................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks...................................................
Billing, cost and rate clerks.........................................................
General office clerks ....................................................................
Electronic data processing and other
office machine operators.........................................................
Billing, posting, and calculating machine
operators...................................................................................
Computer operators, except peripheral
equipment.................................................................................
Data entry keyers, except composing.....................................
All other office machine operators ..........................................
Switchboard operators .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling,
dispatching, and distributing workers.....................................
Production, planning, and expediting
clerks.........................................................................................
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers,
recordkeeping ..........................................................................
Stock clerks, stockroom, warehouse or
storage yard .............................................................................
Traffic, shipping, and receiving
clerks.........................................................................................
All other material recording, scheduling, and
distributing workers .................................................................
All other clerical and administrative support
workers ........................................................................................
Service occupations ........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors, service ..................................................
Guards and watch guards............................................................
Food and beverage preparation and service
Cleaning and building service workers, except
private households.....................................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids
and housekeeping cleaners...................................................
All other cleaning and building service
workers, except private households .....................................
All other service workers ............................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

3,110

0.84

5

13

7,880
1,680

2.13
.45

3
10

26
4

51,800

14.01

n.a.

n.a.

1,440
9,380
170
520
1,780
570

.39
2.54
.05
.14
.48
.15

5
2
11
7
4
7

7
53
1
5
11
4

450
540

.12
.15

4
6

4
4

4,110
480
7,100
920
1,020
6,570

1.11
.13
1.92
.25
.28
1.78

3
5
2
5
4
3

18
5
46
7
6
34

2,310

.62

n.a.

n.a.

330

.09

11

1

670
1,180
130
520

.18
.32
.04
.14

5
5
17
3

5
6
1
6

13,290

3.59

n.a.

n.a.

1,760

.48

4

7

340

.09

9

2

1,880

.51

7

7

8,930

2.42

2

41

380

.10

14

1

630

.17

10

2

5,370

1.45

n.a.

n.a.

340
610

.09
.16

16
7

2
3

70

.02

16

3,630

.98

n.a.

n.a.

3,460

.94

2

25

170
720

.05
.19

10
37

80
80

.02
.02

n.a.
14

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related
occupations................................................................................
Gardeners and groundskeepers, except farm ..........................
See footnotes at end of table.

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1
0

n.a.

1

Table 23. Miscellaneous manufacturing industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 39)

Occupation

Production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................
First-line supervisors,
manager/supervisors - production,
construction, maintenance, and related
workers .....................................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - mechanics,
installers and repairers ...........................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - production and
operating workers....................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/superv-transp and
material moving machine and
vehicle workers........................................................................
First-line supervisors and
manager/supervisors - helpers, laborers,
and material movers, hand ............. .......................................
Precision inspectors, testers, and graders................................
Production inspectors, testers, graders,
sorters, samplers, and weighers ..............................................
Mechanics, installers, and repairers...........................................
Machinery maintenance mechanics.........................................
Machinery maintenance workers..............................................
Maintenance repairers, general utility......................................
Musical instrument repairers and tuners.................................
All other mechanics, installers, and repairers........................
Construction trades workers, except material
moving........................................................................................
Carpenters...................................................................................
Electricians..................................................................................
Painters and paperhangers, construction and
maintenance.............................................................................
Plumbers, pipefitters, and
steamfitters...............................................................................
All other construction trades workers......................................
Precision metal workers...............................................................
Tool-and-die m akers..................................................................
Machinists ...................................................................................
Tool grinders, filers, sharpeners, and other
precision grinders ....................................................................
Jewelers and silversmiths.........................................................
Precision hand workers, jewelry and related
products....................................................................................
Precision etchers and engravers, hand or
machine ....................................................................................
Sheet- metal workers.................................................................
All other precision metal workers ............................................
Precision woodworkers.................................................................
Pattern and model makers, w ood............................................
Wood machinists........................................................................
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters ....................................
All other precision woodworkers..............................................
Precision printing workers............................................................
Precision compositors, typesetters, and
arrangers...................................................................................
All other precision printing workers .........................................
Precision workers, n e c .................................................................
Precision molders, shapers, casters, and
carvers, except jewelry and foundry.....................................
Precision patternmakers, model makers, layout
workers, and cutters..............................................................
Precision detail design decorators,
and painters .............................................................................
Gem and diamond workers.......................................................
All other precision workers, n e c ...............................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

255,070

68.98

n.a.

n.a.

15,500

4.19

n.a.

n.a.

400

.11

8

3

14,470

3.91

2

55

240

.06

9

2

390
2,150

.11
.58

9
5

2
8

5,150
8,300
1,600
410
4,760
260
1,270

1.39
2.24
.43
.11
1.29
.07
.34

4
n.a.
8
16
3
15
9

11
n.a.
4
2
24
1
4

4,860
1,750
2,440

1.31
.47
.66

n.a.
9
6

n.a.
5
10

260

.07

15

1

160
250
25,750
2,490
1,800

.04
.07
6.96
.67
.49

13
24
n.a.
5
7

1
1
n.a.
7
5

1,430
5,440

.39
1.47

8
5

4
11

7,370

1.99

5

12

1,890
4,940
390
4,960
240
460
3,820
440
440

.51
1.34
.11
1.34
.06
.12
1.03
.12
.12

6
5
15
n.a.
17
20
6
n.a.
n.a.

7
13
1
n.a.
1
1
7
n.a.
n.a.

320
120
4,660

.09
.03
1.26

14
22
n.a.

2
0
n.a.

430

.12

16

1

310

.08

14

1

2,300
610
1,010

.62
.16
.27

7
13
13

9
2
2

Employment’

See footnotes at end of table.

123

Table 23. Miscellaneous manufacturing industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 39)

Occupation

Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic.......................................................................
Sawing machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic ......................................
Milling and planing machine setters and
set-up operators, metal and plastic......................................
Grinding, lapping, and buffing machine tool
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Machine tool cutting operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Punching machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Rolling machine setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Machine forming operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Numerical control machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Combination machine tool setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Combination machine tool operators and
tenders, metal and plastic......................................................
Soldering and brazing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Soldering and brazing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Plastic molding and casting machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine setters and set-up operators..................................
Metal molding, coremaking, and casting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators, metal and
plastic........................................................................................
Electrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
setters and set-up operators,
metal and plastic .....................................................................
Nonelectrolytic plating and coating machine
operators and tenders, metal
and plastic................................................................................
Heating equipment setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
Heat treating, annealing, and tempering
machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic.....................................................................
Heaters, metal and plastic........................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, metal and plastic ..................................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
metal and plastic....................................................................
Machine setters, set-up operators, and tenders,
except metal and plastic.........................................................
Sawing machine setters and set-up
operators..................................................................................
Sawing machine operators and tenders................................
Woodworking machine setters and set-up
operators, except sawing ......................................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

33,130

8.96

n.a.

n.a.

260

.07

16

1

480

.13

17

1

580

.16

14

1

150

.04

16

1

3,810

1.03

5

10

5,160

1.40

6

12

4,480

1.21

5

11

250

.07

20

1

2,850

.77

10

2

100

.03

20

1

490

.13

20

1

460

.12

17

1

150

.04

18

1

330

.09

19

1

2,310

.62

8

7

6,490

1.76

9

7

400

.11

22

1

640

.17

9

2

550

.15

9

2

530

.14

10

2

100

.03

25

500

.14

15

120

.03

24

(3)

110
90

.03
.02

14
22

1
(3)

1,740

.47

12

1

1,670

.45

15

2

39,620

10.71

n.a.

n.a.

140
430

.04
.12

21
15

(3)
1

560

.15

15

1

See footnotes at end of table.

124

0

1

Table 23. Miscellaneous manufacturing industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 39)

Occupation

Woodworking machine operators and tenders,
except sawing..........................................................................
Printing press machine setters and set-up
operators...................................................................................
Specialty materials printing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Screen printing machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
All other printing related setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Printing press machine operators and
tenders.......................................................................................
All other printing, binding, and related
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Sewing machine operators, garment.......................................
Sewing machine operators, nongarment ................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters
and set-up operators...............................................................
Cutting and slicing machine operators and
tenders......................................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
setters and set-up operators..................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine
operators and tenders ............................................................
Cleaning, washing, and pickling equipment
operators and tenders ............................................................
Crushing, grinding, mixing, and blending
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and
compacting machine setters and
set-up operators ......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine operators and tenders ............................................
Packaging and filling machine operators
and tenders..............................................................................
All other machine setters and set-up
operators, except metal and plastic......................................
All other machine operators and tenders,
except metal and plastic ........................................................
Precision assemblers, m etal........................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers,
precision ......................................................................................
Other hand workers, n e c .............................................................
Electrical and electronic assemblers.......................................
Welders and cutters...................................................................
Solderers and brazers...............................................................
Sewers, h a n d ..............................................................................
Cutters and trimmers, hand ......................................................
Molders and casters, hand .......................................................
Painting, coating, and decorating,
workers, hand ..........................................................................
Engraving and printing workers, hand.....................................
Grinding and polishing workers, han d .....................................
Assemblers and fabricators, except machine,
electrical, electronic, and precision.......................................
All other hand workers, n e c ......................................................
Plant and system workers ...........................................................
Motor vehicle operators ...............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy or tractor
trailer .........................................................................................
Truck drivers, light, include delivery and
route workers...........................................................................
All other motor vehicle operators ............................................
All other transportation and motor vehicle
operators .....................................................................................
Material moving equipment operators........................................
Hoist and winch operators........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators......................................
Conveyor operators and tenders .............................................

Employment1

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

1,070

0.29

14

1

340

.09

13

1

550

.15

17

1

3,120

.84

6

9

230

.06

19

1

680

.18

15

1

440
1,370
9,200

.12
.37
2.49

14
23
7

1
1
10

350

.09

18

1

1,000

.27

14

1

880

.24

11

2

1,360

.37

8

3

360

.10

12

1

540

.15

18

2

450

.12

20

1

1,290

.35

28

1

7,230

1.96

6

9

1,360

.37

17

2

5,000
1,110

1.35
.30

8
n.a.

4
n.a.

1,110
65,640
1,290
2,720
2,390
400
870
720

.30
17.75
.35
.74
.65
.11
.24
.19

19
n.a.
14
7
7
20
11
14

1
n.a.
1
9
5
1
2
1

6,030
580
5,580

1.63
.16
1.51

5
11
5

19
2
10

40,750
4,310
110
1,490

11.02
1.17
.03
.40

4
8
39
n.a.

21
6
(3)
n.a.

700

.19

9

3

720
70

.19
.02

7
16

6
1

70
2,350
160
1,660
220

.02
.64
.04
.45
.06

25
n.a.
27
7
18

See footnotes at end of table.

125

ft
n.a.

ft
4
1

Table 23. Miscellaneous manufacturing industries: Employment, relative error, and percent of establishments reporting
selected occupations, May 1983—Continued
(SIC 39)

Occupation

Employment’

All other material moving equipment
operators...................................................................................
Helpers - mechanics and repairers ............................................
Construction trades and extractive worker
helpers.........................................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers.................................................
Freight, stock, and material movers, ha n d ................................
Hand packers and packagers.....................................................
All other helpers, laborers, and material
movers, h a n d ..............................................................................
All other production, construction, operating,
maintenance, and material handling
occupations.................................................................................

Percent of total
employment

Relative error (in
percentage)2

Percent of
establishments
reporting
the occupation

310
340

0.08
.09

20
13

1
2

220
6,500
5,720
18,020

.06
1.76
1.55
4.87

26
6
4
4

(3)
9
17
24

8,930

2.42

8

7

50

.01

n.a.

n.a.

1 Estimates of fewer than 50 workers, or with less than 0.01
percent of industry employment, or with a relative error greater than
50 are generally not shown separately since such estimates are
considered unreliable. Estimates that are not shown have been
counted in the appropriate “All other” categories.
2 Relative standard errors apply equally to data on estimaced
employment and percent of total employment; relative standard errors

are estimated at the level of 2 chances out of 3.
For further
information on sampling variability and other types of errors, see
appendix A.
3 Less than 0.5 percent.
n.a. = not available.
NOTE: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. Estimated
employment is rounded to the nearest 10.

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Appendix A. Survey Methods
and Reliability of Estimates

Scope of survey

data with data from sources using the Census classifica­
tion. (See appendix B.)
The industrial classification system is that described
in the 1972 edition o f the Standard Industrial Classifica­
tion Manual, 1 whereby reporting establishments are
classified into industries on the basis o f major product
or activity.

The survey covered private m anufacturing
establishments in Standard Industrial Classification
(Sic) codes 20-39. The reference date o f the survey was
the week that included April 12, May 12, or June 12,
1983, depending on the sic o f the sampled unit as shown
below:

SIC
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38

Concepts
An establishment is an economic unit which produces

Reference date

goods or services. Generally, it is at a single physical
location and is engaged predominantly in one type o f
economic activity. Where a single physical location en­
compasses two or more distinct activities, these are
treated as separate establishments if separate payroll
records are available and certain other criteria are met.
Employment includes full- and part-time workers;
workers on paid vacations or other types o f leave;
workers on unpaid short-term absences (i.e., illness, bad
weather, temporary layoff, jury duty); salaried officers,
executives, and staff o f incorporated firms; employees
temporarily assigned to other units; and employees for
whom that unit is their permanent (home) duty station,
regardless o f whether the unit prepares their paycheck.
Excluded from coverage are proprietors (owners and
partners o f unincorporated firms), self-employed, un­
paid family workers, and workers on extended leave
(i.e., pensioners and members o f the Armed Forces).
Occupation refers to the occupation in which
employees are working rather than the occupation for
which they may have been trained. For example, an
employee trained as an engineer but working as a
drafter is reported as a drafter.
Working supervisors (those spending 20 percent or
more of their time at work similar to that done by
workers under their supervision) are reported in the oc­
cupation most closely related to their work.
Part-time workers, learners, and apprentices are
reported in the occupation in which they ordinarily
work.
Multiple jobholders (employees who perform the
duties o f two or more occupations in an establishment)

....................................................... June12
....................................................... June12
.......................................................April12
...................................................... April12
........................................................May12
........................................................May12
.......................................................April12
........................................................May12
....................................................... June12
........................................................May12
....................................................... June12
..................................................April 12
........................................................May12
..................................................April 12
....................................................... June12
....................................................... June12
....................................................... June12
....................................................... June12
..................................................April 12

3 9 ..................................................................May 12

The survey covered all 50 States, the District o f Co­
lumbia, and Puerto Rico. (Puerto Rico data are not in­
cluded in the national estimates in this publication.)

Occupational and industrial classification
The OES classification system is based primarily on
the Dictionary o f Occupational Titles ( d o t ) , Fourth edi­
tion, and is compatible with the 1980 Standard Occupa­
tional Classification (soc) system. The d o t was used to
develop the definitions o f o e s occupations because it is
the most comprehensive system for classifying occupa­
tions. In addition, each o e s occupation is directly
related to a 1980 census occupation, except in those
cases where a census occupation is not within the scope
o f the o e s survey. “ Crosswalks” have been developed
between the two systems so that users may integrate o e s

1Standard Industrial Classification Manual (Office of Manage­
ment and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 1972), as amend­
ed in Supplement, 1977.
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are reported in the occupation that requires the highest
level o f skill or in the occupation where the most time
is spent if there is no measurable difference in skill
requirements.

target relative errors o f 10, 15, and 20 percent at one
standard deviation were developed for the noncertainty
size classes. This was done for groups o f SIC’s based on
averages o f occupational rates and coefficients o f varia­
tion (c v ’s) from the previous survey o f those s ic ’s for a
set o f typical occupations. This sic sample size was
allocated to the size classes proportionally to size class
employment. The sample was selected systematically
with equal probability within each State/sic/area/size
class cell.
The States were given the option of three target
relative errors in designing their samples. Some States
varied the target relative error by sic. This was done to
decrease the cost by reducing the sample size. The above
allocations resulted in a total initial sample size of
158,023 UI reporting units.

Survey procedures
The survey is conducted over a 3-year cycle; manufac­
turing industries are surveyed in one year and non­
manufacturing industries in the other two years. Data
are collected from a sample o f establishments primarily
by mail; telephone followups and personal visits are
made when an establishment response is critical to the
survey. The survey is based on a probability sample,
stratified by industry and size o f employment, designed
to represent the total or “ universe” o f establishments
covered by the survey. Data are requested for the pay
period including the 12th o f the reference month, which
is standard for all Federal agencies collecting employ­
ment data.

Response
O f those selected, 149,213 were final eligible units
(i.e., excluding establishments that were out o f business
or out o f scope, etc.). Usable responses were obtained
from 110,305 units, producing a response rate of 73.9
percent based on units and 68.0 percent based on
weighted employment. Subsequent to the closeout date
for national estimates, additional data were received by
States and used in preparing State estimates. Response
rates in most States were much higher than the response
rate used to develop national estimates.

Method of collection
Survey schedules were mailed to most sample
establishments; personal visits were made to some larger
companies. Two additional mailings were sent to
nonrespondents at approximately 6-week intervals.
Nonrespondents considered critical to the survey (due to
size) were followed up by telephone or personal visit.

Sampling procedure
The sampling frame for this survey was the list of
units in the specified SIC ’s as reported to State
Unemployment Insurance (ui) agencies. The reference
date o f the sampling frame was the second quarter of
1983.

Estimation
A weight was determined for each sample unit from
which a usable response was received. Each weight was
composed o f two factors. The first factor was the in­
verse o f the probability of selection. The second was the
nonresponse adjustment factor, used to correct for
questionnaires that were not returned or not usable. For
each o f the three-digit sic/State/size class sampling
cells, a nonresponse factor was calculated that was
equal to:

The universe was stratified into Sic and size classes.
The size classes were determined by employment as
follows:

Size class
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Employees

Weighted sample employment of all eligible units in sample

1-3
4-9
10-19
20-49
50-99
100-249
250-249
500-999
......................... 1,000 and over

Weighted sample employment of all responding eligible units

Sample employment was taken from the sampling
frame. If the factor in a cell was greater than a predeter­
mined maximum factor, which increased as the number
o f respondents in a cell increased, the cell was collapsed
with other homogeneous cells within the SIC until the
factor for the combined cells was not greater than the
appropriate maximum factor. If the collapsing pro­
cedure terminated (i.e., no more cells were available for
collapse) before satisfying the above constraint, then the
appropriate maximum factor was used. For size classes
1-6, homogeneous cells were determined to be other size
cells within the sic and State. For size classes 7-9,

ui reporting units with 1-3 employees were not sampled
in all States, but units with 4-9 employees were given
larger weights to represent the employment in the
smaller size class, ui reporting units with 250 or more
employees were included in the sample with certainty.
Sample sizes intended to produce State estimates with
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The variances for the occupational estimates were esti­
mated from the following formula:

homogeneous cells were determined to be other State
cells within the sic and size class. The weight for each
establishment was the product o f the two factors.
A combined ratio estimate o f occupational employ­
ment was used to develop the national estimates. The
auxiliary variable used was total employment. The
estimating formula is:

Var(f>)
T«
By
Dy

2 2 wijk Pjjk
J_ k _________

f>

2 2

L jk

Mi

j
k
w ijk

P *

®ijk

Ms

The population value o f total employment (Mj) was
obtained from the b l s Current Employment Statistics
program, a monthly employment survey o f nonagricultural establishments.
The standard form for the sampling variance for a
combined ratio estimate is:

V(f>)
A jj

Where: V(f>)
i
j
N*
fy

ny

Spij
S cij

Ky

_

?? nr v 2
i j *y vy
[Bjj] . [ D y ] . [ F y ] 2
(My-ey)/(My)
(Gy)/(Hy)

Gy

r=s

Hy

==s Ik

Fy

-

V .2

viJ

=

Lijk

=

Mjj

rss

Ri

=

Wijk ®ijk

2- digit industry occupational
employment estimate
3- digit industry within a 2-digit
industry
size class
establishment
weight after nonresponse
adjustment in i-th industry, j-th
size class and k-th establishment
occupational employment in i-th
industry, j-th size class and k-th
establishment
total employment in i-th industry,
j-th size class and k-th estab­
lishment
population total employment in
i-th industry

Where: f>

=
=
=
=

( H

o

n

f 2 wijkV ( 2 wjk']
' J - Ik ' )
(M.) / (jk W|ik e'Jl)
2 wijk • L2jk
k
(Pijk RiCijk)

(Pij Ri®ij)

Where:

«y

benchmark total employment in
the i-th industry and j-th size
class
^?2 Wyk PykJ y ^?2 WijkeijkJ
Scjjk
k ■

All other terms are as defined above. This formula is
almost a computational form o f the standard formula
given above. One simplifying assumption has been
made:

Wijk = Cjj for all k in a given ij cell
That is, the weights are equal to a constant C within a
given three-digit industry/size class cell. At this time,
the total effect o f this assumption on the variance
estimates has not been measured.

s s N t P q - f i i ) . A,,

Reliability of estimates

1J

ny
+ R2Seij - 2R, Kij Spij Seij
= variance of £>
= 3-digit industry within a 2-digit
industry
— size class
= total number of units in the i-th
industry and j-th size class
= sampling fraction in the i-th
industry and j-th size class
= number of sample units in the i-th
industry and j-th size class
= standard deviation of p within the
i-th industry and j-th size class
= standard deviation of e within the
i-th industry and j-th size class
= correlation coefficient between p
and e within the i-th industry and
j-th size class.

Estimates developed from the sample may differ from
the results o f a complete survey o f all the establishments
in the sampled lists. Two types o f errors, sampling and
nonsampling, are possible in an estimate based on a
sample survey. Sampling error occurs because observa­
tions are made only on a sample, not on the entire
population. Nonsampling error can be attributed to
many sources, e.g., inability to obtain information
about all cases in the sample; differences in the
respondents’ interpretation o f questions; inability of
respondents to provide correct information; errors in
recording, coding, or processing the data; errors in
estimating values for missing data; and failure to repre­
sent all units in the population.
The particular sample used in this survey is one o f a
large number o f all possible samples o f the same size
that could have been selected using the same sample
design. Estimates derived from the different samples
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rors above the derived estimate would include
the average o f all possible samples. This inter­
val is called a 95-percent confidence interval.

would differ from each other; the difference between a
sample estimate and the average o f all possible sample
estimates is called the sampling deviation. The standard
or sampling error o f a survey estimate is a measure of
the variation among the estimates from all possible
samples. The relative standard error is defined as the
standard error o f the estimate divided by the value being
estimated; the variance is defined as the standard error
squared.
The sample estimate and an estimate of its standard
error enable one to construct interval estimates with
prescribed confidence that the interval includes the
average result o f all possible samples that could be ob­
tained from the sample design for the survey.
To illustrate, if all possible samples were selected, and
if each o f these were surveyed under essentially the same
conditions and an estimate and its estimated sample er­
ror were calculated from each sample, then:
1. Approximately 68 percent o f the intervals from
one standard error below to one standard error
above the derived estimate would include the
average value o f all possible samples. This in­
terval is called a 68-percent confidence
interval.
2.

Approximately 90 percent o f the intervals
from 1.6 standard errors below to 1.6 stand­
ard errors above the derived estimate would
include the average o f all p ossib le
samples. This interval is called a 90-percent
confidence interval.

3.

Approximately 95 percent of the intervals from
two standard errors below to two standard er­

4.

Almost all intervals from three standard errors
below to three standard errors above the deriv­
ed estimate would include the average o f all
possible samples.

An inference that the complete coverage value would
be within the indicated ranges would be correct in ap­
proximately the relative frequencies shown.
For example, suppose an estimated total is shown as
5,000 with an associated relative error o f 2 percent.
Then the standard error is 100 (2 percent o f 5,000) and
there is a 68-percent chance that the average o f all possi­
ble sample totals would be between 4,900 and 5,100,
and it is almost certain that the average o f all possible
sample totals would be between 4,700 and 5,300.
The relative errors provided primarily indicate the
magnitude o f the sampling error, but do not measure
biases in the data due to nonsampling error. Efforts
were made to reduce the biases due to errors in recor­
ding, coding, and processing the data. The adjustment
made for nonrespondents assum ed that the
characteristics of the nonrespondents were the same as
those o f the respondents at a given level. To the extent
this is not true, bias is introduced in the data. The
magnitude o f these biases is not known.
Particular care should be exercised in the interpreta­
tion of small estimates, estimates based on a small
number o f cases, or small differences between estimates
because the sampling errors are relatively large and the
magnitude o f the biases is unknown.

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Appendix B. The OES
Classification System

major and minor group structure o f each division are
given below:

The new o e s system (with an entirely new 5-digit
coding system) organizes all occupations into four
levels: Division, major group, minor group, and detail.
The following sections discuss the first three levels, and
also explain the new coding structure.

Managerial and administrative occupations. This divi­
sion is organized into three major groups. The first con­
tains specialized occupations by function, and the se­
cond contains specialized occupations by industry. Both
o f these categories are generally at the middle manage­
ment level. When function and industry overlap, func­
tion takes precedence and is listed first. The third and
final group includes the division residual as well as
workers, usually in upper management, whose duties
are more general in nature.

Division level
There are seven divisions in the new o e s system:
1. Managerial and administrative occupations
2. Professional, paraprofessional, and technical
occupations
3. Sales and related occupations
4. Clerical and administrative support occupations
5. Service occupations
6. Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related ococcupations
7. Production, construction, operating, main­
tenance, and material handling occupations

Professional, paraprofessional, and technical occupa­
tions. This division is organized into 9 major groups and
a residual category. These major groups were created by
combining those professional, paraprofessional, and
technical occupations requiring common bodies of
knowledge and expertise. Unlike the Standard Occupa­
tional Classification (soc) system, distinctions between
technical and professional workers, if made, are found
at the minor group level rather than at the major group
or division level.
The first major group is management support. This
group was placed in the professional division rather
than the managerial division, as in the soc, for it was
felt that respondents consider individual management
support occupations functionally closer to the profes­
sional specialties o f the division than to the upper and
middle management occupations o f the first division.
The management support group also includes a residual
allowing the combination o f this major group with the
management division, if soc compatibility is required.
The remaining major groups primarily follow soc
order: “ Hard” sciences, including engineering; the
social sciences and related disciplines, such as law and
teaching; health fields; and, writing, art, and related
fields. The two exceptions to the soc order, the techni­
cian and computer groups, were moved so that these oc­
cupations would appear in closer proximity to the oc­
cupations they most commonly support.

Some o f the more significant changes made at the
division level are:
• The exclusion o f first-line managers/supervisors
from the managerial and administrative division. These
workers are classified in separate and specific categories
in the other divisions. For example, in the second divi­
sion, first-line managers/supervisors are classified with
the workers they supervise.
• The combination o f professional and technical
workers into a single integrated division in order to
lessen the growing ambiguity between the two
categories.
•

T h e c r e a t io n o f a n e w a g r ic u ltu r e d iv is io n w h ic h

a llo w s s u p p le m e n ta tio n o f d a ta f r o m

n o n -O E S s u r v e y

sou rces.

• The significant organizational and occupational
revision o f the production division.

Major and minor group levels
A significant amount of change has taken place at the
major and minor group levels, particularly in restructur­
ing. Since it would be impossible to describe every
change in this appendix, some o f the highlights o f the
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manufacturing survey, for example, only the lumber
and wood products industry (sic 24) and, to a lesser
degree, food and kindred products (sic 20) had signifi­
cant employment in this category.

Sales and related occupations. The so c arranges the
sales division into four segments:
Supervisory; sale o f most services; sale of retail pro­
ducts; and sales-related occupations. In both the new
oes system and the so c , retail sales is not an industry
designation but rather an occupational designation for
sales activities which are directed towards individuals
rather than organizations or businesses.
Unlike the so c , the new oes system includes all ser­
vice sales occupations in the major groups as “ sales oc­
cupations, service.’’
In addition, a new major group was created by com­
bining the last three s o c categories because they involve
the sale o f products rather than services. A few salesrelated occupations such as demonstrators have also
been included in this new group.
The new oes sales division is somewhat larger in
scope than the previous oes category because o f the ad­
dition o f occupations such as sales engineers and
cashiers. These additions to the sales group in the new
oes structure do not, however, diminish the magnitude
o f the increase in sales personnel in manufacturing in­
dustries between 1980 and 1983.

Production, construction, operating, maintenance,
and material handling occupations. As in the previous
oes system, this is the largest and most diverse o f all the
oes divisions. The major groups are listed below:

Supervisory
Inspecting
Repair
Construction and extraction
Precision production
Machine setting and operating
Assembling and handworking
Plant and system operation
Transportation and material handling
Helpers and laborers
To understand the organization of this division, it is
important to be familiar with so c principles. The first
basic principle o f organization is that occupations are
grouped by function (e.g. inspecting, repairing, produc­
ing). An equally important principle is organization by
skill requirements (e.g. precision, setup, operating,
helping).
A third organizing principle in many of these groups
is the distinction made between machine and hand
operations. In this case, hand operations include the use
o f hand-held power tools. The hand and machine
categories are not exhaustive, however, since both preci­
sion hand work and precision machine work are placed
in the same category. For oes purposes, an exception to
the so c placement was made, and precision assembling
occupations were placed in the handworking category,
allowing for proximity to the other assembling occupa­
tions.
The soc and the new OES systems also distinguish be­
tween “ manual” occupations, such as material hand­
ling, and “ hand” occupations, such as grinding. Here,
the distinction is made according to whether or not the
worker is directly working on the manufacture o f a pro­
duct.
Within the large production and precision and
machine groups, distinctions are made on the basis of
materials worked (e.g. metal/plastic, wood, textile,
assorted/other). The assorted/other category includes
working with combined materials as well as working
with single materials, such as stone, which have not
previously been specified.

Clerical and administrative support occupations. This
division is organized into six major groups and a
residual category. As with the other divisions, the super­
visory category is first. The next major group includes
industry-specific clerical occupations. This group is
placed near the top o f the clerical division so that
respondents can more easily locate these occupations.
These two major groups are followed by the general
secretarial and related group, an office machine group,
a communications group, and a material recording
group.
Service occupations. The previous OES system included
protective services, food service, and cleaning service
occupations as summary occupational groups. The new
system includes these as major groups and adds health
and personal service occupations, while expanding the
cleaning group to encompass building service organiza­
tions.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and related occupations.
Because many o f the occupations related to this divi­
sion are found in industries outside the scope o f the oes
survey, the previous oes system coding structure had no
comparable category. At present, the division covers
only those occupations needed for the oes survey as
defined by its current nonagricultural scope. In the 1983

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Appendix C. OES Survey Data
Available from State Agencies

State data on occupational employment in manufac­
turing are available as indicated below. These reports

may be obtained from the State employment security
agencies listed on the inside back cover of this publication.

Table C-1. OES survey data available by State and year
1971

State

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut

.................
X

1974

1977

1980

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

...................
X

x

X

X
X

X

X

X

X

X

X

x

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

.......................

K entu cky

X

X

Massachusetts
Michigan

x

M inn esota

X

Mississippi
Missouri

X

X

X

X

X

Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

*U .8. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 19 6 6

4 9 1

51*3

State

1983

M o n ta n a...............................................
Nevada .................................................
New Hampshire ..................................
New Jersey...........................................
New Mexico .........................................
New York...............................................
North Carolina.......................................
North Dakota.........................................
Nebraska...............................................
Ohio........................................................
O klahom a.............................................
Oregon .................................................
Pennsylvania.........................................
Puerto R ic o ...........................................
Rhode Island.........................................
South Carolina.......................................
South Dakota.........................................
Tennessee.............................................
Texas......................................................
Utah .....................................................
Vermont.................................................
Virginia .................................................
Washington...........................................
West Virginia.........................................
Wisconsin.............................................
Wyoming...............................................

4 6 2 3 4

1971

1974

1977

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X
X

X

X

X
X

1980

1983

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X
X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X
X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

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INDIANA

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IOWA

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KANSAS

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KENTUCKY

VI

LOUISIANA

I
III

I

MAINE
MARYLAND

MASSACHUSETTS

V

MICHIGAN

V

MINNESOTA

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of Labor, 20 Union Street, Augusta 04330
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Eutaw Street, Baltimore 21201
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Hurley Building, Government Center,
Boston 02114
- Employment Security Commission, 7310
Woodward Avenue, Detroit 48202
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North Robert Street, St. Paul 55101

IV

MISSISSIPPI

VII

MISSOURI

VIII

MONTANA

VII

NEBRASKA

IX
I

NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE

II

NEW JERSEY

VI

NEW MEXICO

II
IV
VIII
V
VI

X
III
II
I
IV
VIII

NEW YORK

NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOMA

OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
PUERTO RICO
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SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA

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TENNESSEE

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TEXAS

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X
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WEST VIRGINIA
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WYOMING

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- Division of Employment, Department of
Labor, P.O. Box 94600, Lincoln 68509
- Employment Security Department, 500 East
Third Street, Carson City 89713
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South Main Street, Concord 03301
- Department of Labor, P.O. Box 2765, Tren­
ton 08625
- Employment Security Department, P.O. Box
1928, Albuquerque 87103
- Division of Research and Statistics, Depart­
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Albany 12240
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