Return to NTA HomeAbout the U.S. Textile IndustryU.S. Textile and Apparel EmploymentData on number of employees by industry in the U.S. is published by the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. From time to time the National Textile Association downloads the most recent data and makes them available as an Excel spreadsheet of Textile Mill, Textile Product Mills, and Apparel Employment. The spreadsheet contains three tables corresponding to the three North American Industry Classification System ("NAICS") classifications that include:
For updated employment stats for those three NAICS classifications go to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics and enter the series ID of interest from this list:
U.S. Textile and Apparel ProductionThe Current Industrial Report ("CIR") program of the Bureau of the Census has been providing monthly, quarterly, and annual measures of industrial activity for many years. The primary objective of the CIR program is to produce timely, accurate data on production and shipments of selected products. The data are used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making in the private sector. However, the value of the CIR program has been severely limited by the discontinuance of many industry sector surveys. The CIRs are available on the internet at http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/cir/index.html. In the textile and apparel industries there remain three quarterly surveys:
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