1996 Electronics Industry Environmental Roadmap - Civil and ...

Appendix D
Appendix D. Statistical Data Associated with Commerce for Major Selected
Sectors of the U.S. Electronics Industry
This section contains a series of tables developed from data derived from various program
activities of the U.S. Department of Commerce. These tables have been included with this
roadmap document as an appendix to demonstrate the availability of the various types of data
concerning the electronics industry that may be pertinent to the roadmap activity. The data
contained in these tables are important for the following reasons:
The data in the tables have been collected, compiled, and published by the federal government.
The data have been statistically sampled from the major divisions of the U.S. electronics
industry, so it is reflective of the industry as a whole and its stratified components.
The various coding systems (e.g., SIC codes, ASM product codes, CIR item codes, etc.)
used throughout the tables permit analytical comparisons with other data sources using
the same or similar codes.
The ongoing nature of the federal government programs from which these data have been
derived ensures that a continuing source of knowledge will be available for purposes of
periodic (e.g., annualized) comparisons, benchmarking, and analysis.
A brief explanation of each table is presented below, and the tables follow.
Table 1 contains summary demographic data for the major sectors of the U.S. electronics
industry of primary interest in this roadmap document. These sectors are represented by two
three-digit SIC codes:
SIC 357: Computer and office equipment manufacturing
SIC 367: Electronic components and accessories manufacturing
Table 1 presents the number of establishments, employment, and employee wage statistics for
these two sectors of the electronics industry, stratified at the 4-digit SIC code level.
Table 2 cross-references the SIC codes for the primary sectors of interest with the product codes
used in the Annual Survey/Census of Manufacturers (ASM) and the item codes used in the
Current Industrial Reports (CIR). Both programs are sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Commence. The codes demonstrate the possible cross-correlations that are possible among the
various sources that use one or more of these coding systems.
Table 3 presents data associated with the costs of fuels and electricity used for heat and power by
the listed sectors of the electronics industry. Such costs are directly associated with the costs of
manufacturing and, indirectly, with both quantities of pollution and costs of pollution abatement
and control.
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