TRANSPORTATION ENERGY DATA BOOK: EDITION 20 - Center for ...

Employees of motor vehicle and related industries comprise 7.6% of the laborforce. For employment in the
entire transportation industry, see the next table.
Industry
Motor vehicle and equipment
manufacturing
Motor vehicles and equipment
Travel trailers and campers
Transportation equipment not
elsewhere classified
Automotive stampings
Carburetors, pistons, piston
rings, and valves
Vehicular lighting equipment
Storage batteries
Electrical equipmentfor
internal combustion engines
Tires and inner tubes
Cold-rolled steel sheet, strip,
and bars
Road construction and
maintenance
Motor freight transportation and
related services
Trucking and courier services,
except by air or by the U.S.
Postal Service
Petroleum refining and wholesale
distribution
Passenger transportation
Automotive sales and servicing
Table 5.17
Employees of Motor Vehicle and Related Industries, 1990 and 1997
1990 1997
Percent of Percent of Percent of Percent of Percent
total motor total U.S. total motor total U.S. change
Employees vehicle employment” Employees vehicle employment” 1990-95
1,055,595 15.0%
707,160 10.0%
14,301 0.2%
17,263 0.2%
111,548 1.6%
19,674 0.3%
15,586 0.2%
23,518 0.3%
61,675 0. Yr%
68,505 1.0%
16,365 0.2%
261,461 3.7%
l&X2,836 23.6%
1.1% 1,192,105 14.8% 1.1% 12.9%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
815,513
b
60,739
10.1%
0.1% 126,712 I. 6%
0.0% 18,290 0.2%
0.0% 16,689 0.2%
0.0(X 23,131 0.3%
0.1’S 52,885 0.7%
O.lC% 63,699 0.8%
0.0% 14,447 0.2%
0.3%
1,458,847 20.71%; 1.6% 1,811,597
264,820 3.8%
672,27 1 9.5%
3,135,783 44.5%
b
0.8%
b
15.3%
0.8% 0.1% 251.8%
0.1%
0.0%
O.OC%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
b
13.6%
-7.0%
7.1%
-1.6’X
-14.3%
-7.0%
-11.7%
b b b b
1.8% 2,056,223 25.5% 2.0% 23.7%
0.3% 238,298
0.7% 907,395
3.4% 3,656,899
22.5%
3.0%
11.3%
45.4%
1.7%
0.2%
0.9%
3.5%
24.2%
-10.0%
35.0%
Total of motor vehicle and related 7,052,766 100.0% 7.5% 8,050,920 100.0% 7.6% 14.2%
industries
U.S. Total” 93,476,087 100.0% 105,299,123 100.0% 12.6%
Source:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, County Business Patterns web site: tier2censusgov/cbp/, February 2000.
(Additional resources: wwwcensusgov)
:‘Data for employees of establishments totally exempt from FICA are excluded, as are self-employed persons, domestic
service workers, railroad employees, agricultural production workers and most government employees.
“Data are not available.
TELANSPORTATIONENERGYDATABOOK: EDITION~O-2000
16.6%
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