Table 1
Descriptive statistics, panel of plants present in 1989 and 1999

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Descriptive statistics, panel of plants present in 1989 and 1999
Table summary
This table displays descriptive statistics for the panel of plants present in 1989 and 1999. The row headers describe plant and place characteristics. The column headers provide describe the plant and place characteristics in terms of means, medians and standard deviations.
  1989  1999
  mean median standard deviation mean median standard deviation
Plant characteristics  
Labour productivity (dollars) 82,775 57,910 113,862 87,298 55,644 112,083
Ratio of profit to value added 0.58 0.58 0.16 0.58 0.58 0.18
Production workers (number) 53 15 230 59 21 198
Ratio of non-production workers to production workers 0.46 0.37 0.52 0.42 0.33 0.53
Place characteristics  
Labour mix (index) 5.1 4.3 2.4 5.5 4.8 2.5
Local density upstream suppliers (index) 6.0 1.2 24.5 6.9 1.2 29.0
Plants within 5 kilometres (number) 41 17 74 31 13 54
Population (number) 159,220 37,932 463,249 178,011 39,992 535,224
Descriptive statistics, panel of plants present in 1989 and 1999 (continued)
  1989 1999
  number of observations
Plant characteristics 11,323 11,323
Place characteristics  
Labour mix 3,204 3,204
Local density upstream suppliers 3,204 3,204
Plants within 5 kilometres 11,323 11,323
Population 138 138
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Annual Survey of Manufacturers, 1989 and 1999.
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