LOCATION OF MANUFACTURING: METHODS OF MEASUREMENT

T HE 1954 United States Census of Manufactures offers a new mass of data for research by manufactural geographers. The purposes of this article are: (a) to urge collaborative research efforts by industrial geographers working with these new statistics, (b) to consider classification of methods of measurement, (c) to comment briefly on mapping changes in location of manufacturing, and (d) to suggest two specific problems of measurement for investigation by manufactural geographers.