us department of commerce economics and statistics administration bureau the census current industrial reports survey plant capacity 1997 mq c1 97 acknowledgments this report was prepared under direction william k mittendorf assistant division chief manufacturing construction within preparation performed supervi sion elinor champion environment technology innovation branch ron taylor review analysis data were by mai weismantle david gromos assisted ronald scarlett sampling methodology developed brian greenburg for research sample design estimation quality measures gary kusch daniel tulp jr supervision stacey cole programs computer used to collect tabulate impute sarah baumgardner economic surveys statistical methods programming steven potemkin alan bolin francis bush