I would like to know the number of companies manufacturing electronic
products in the US and all other major countries.

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 22 Feb 2003 07:27 PST

I'm afraid you will need to specifically define "electronic products"
if you expect to get a reasonable answer. Also your request for data
in "all major countries" is a huge expectation. I doubt that the price
you have selected will allow a researcher to be able to gather that
kind of information for the time that your price normally allows. You
might consider adjusting your price or dropping the second question
from your request.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by boardbuyer-ga on 25 Feb 2003 07:57 PST

I would like to know the number of companies manufacturing electronic 
products in the US.

The most-recent government data is from the 1997 Economic Census
(actually released in 2000 and 2001) but it is very detailed.  You can
search for the number and size of manufacturers by industry; by state;
by county; by metropolitan area; and by Zip Code.

The 2002 Economic Census was mailed in December, with a deadline for
return of Feb. 12, 2003, so it will be a while before data is
compiled.

U.S. Census Bureau
“1997 Economic Census Data”
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/econ97.html

This Census Bureau page includes data by state:
“1997 Economic Census: Manufacturing”
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/97EC31.HTM

You may find Census Bureau pages with NAICS (what we used to know as
SIC) codes useful in identifying where electronics manufacturers are
listed.  The NAICS code for “computer and electronic product”
manufacturing is 334 - - but use of electronics has broadened so
widely that you may wish to electrical equipment/appliance/component
manufacturing as well:
“Menus of NAICS Sectors”
http://www.census.gov/epcd/ec97brdg/INDXNAI3.HTM#31-33

The detailed report on NAICS 334, “Computer and Electronic Product
Manufacturing,” is in an Adobe Acrobat file and starts on page 24 of
the Acrobat document:
“General Summary: Manufacturing” (June, 2001)
http://www.census.gov/prod/ec97/97m31s-gs.pdf 

Here you’ll find the following information:
Companies: 15, 492
Total factories: 17,435
Employees: 1.7 million
Payroll: $72.5 billion
Revenues: $439.4 billion
Capital spending: $24.8 billion

You can also see details for these major categories:
computer & peripheral equipment
communications equipment
audio & video equipment
semiconductors
navigational, medical, control & measuring equipment
magnetic & optical media

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I know that you’d originally asked about international data too. 
Industry associations are almost always country-specific, making it
difficult to get collective international information.

And each country reports data in a different fashion.  Even Canada
doesn’t make it easy to break out the number of electronic
manufacturers (at least without a fee):
Statistics Canada
“Manufacturing Shipments”
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/manuf11.htm

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Omnivorous-GA