Table 3
Industry characteristics – durables over non-durables

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Industry characteristics – durables over non-durables
  1990 1999
  ratio
Export intensity – exports over sales 1.731 1.562
Minimum efficient size as percent of total industry size 1.220 1.243
Average plant size – production workers 0.972 1.008
Annual salary per non production worker 1.051 1.098
Manufacturing value added per production worker 0.789 1.111
Length of production run – sales 1.017 1.347
Annual wage rate of production workers 1.098 1.155
Note(s):
Tobacco is excluded from non-durables category.
Source(s):
Authors' calculations from Annual Census of Manufactures.