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Fish Sticks

Fish sticks—oblong pieces of fish that are breaded and usually frozen before final preparation—are a popular food in the United States and for many children they are the primary form in which seafood is eaten. Today’s market size is the volume and value of fish stick production in the United States in 2010.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2010
Market size: 82.9 million pounds at a value of $113.8 million dollars
Source: “Fisheries of the United States–2010,” August 2011, page 42, available online from the National Marine Fisheries Service web site, here.
Original source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Science and Technology, National Marine Fisheries Service
Posted on October 15, 2012

Launchers for UAVs

Some unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are controlled by a navigator from a remote location and others fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans. These aircraft carry cameras, sensors, and communication equipment. Unmanned combat aerial vehicles, also known as combat drones, are armed and have been used in various wars since the 1980s.

Although unmanned aerial vehicles are used primarily by the military, recently they’ve also been used in fighting large fires, in support of border patrol activities, and in the surveillance of pipelines. Launchers for these vehicles are portable so that they can be placed in remote areas, without a need for an airport. They are also modular so that components can be replaced easily and used in multiple configurations. Data show the market size of the launchers for unmanned aerial vehicles for 2011 and estimated market size for 2018.

Geographic reference: Worldwide
Year: 2011 and 2018
Market Size: $118 million and $1.3 billion respectively
Sources: “Summary: Launchers for Unmanned Aerial Systems and Targets: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018,” ReportLinker, August 2012, available online here; “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” Wikipedia, October 7, 2012, available online here; “Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle,” Wikipedia, October 2, 2012, available online here; and “Unmanned Aerial System,” Institute for Defense and Government Advancement, 2012, available online here.
Posted on October 12, 2012

Musical Instruments

In a recent New York Times article about leading electric guitar maker, Fender, we found the size of the retail sales figure for musical instruments in the United States. But, it made us think, what about musical instrument manufacturing in the United States? It turns out that U.S. musical instrument manufacturers are weathering the 2007–2009 recession and slow recovery since reasonably well.

The graph presents data from the U.S. Census Bureau on musical instrument manufacturer product shipments annually from 1997 through 2010. The value of U.S. made musical instruments grew, if slightly, over this period. When compared with the value of musical instrument imports, we look at a different time period, 2000 to 2010. Over the first decade of the new century, the value of U.S. made musical instruments fell by 5.5% while the value of musical instrument imports fell 7.0%.

Today’s market size is the value of all musical instrument sales in the United States in 2011. Please note that the figures in the graphic are not retail sales, rather values based on wholesale values.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2011
Market size: $6.5 billion
Source: Janet Morrissey, “Aiming To Stay Plugged In,” September 30, 2012, The New York Times, page B1. The graphic was produced with data from the “Annual Survey of Manufactures: General Statistics: Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries: 2010 and 2009,” and earlier “Annual Survey of Manufacturer” reports on the industry, NAICS 339992 Musical Instrument Manufacturing. The Census Burea data are available online through their American FactFinder web site, here.
Original source: Music Trades
Posted on October 9, 2012

Toner Market

Today’s market size is the estimated total size of the world’s output of toner. This post comes from a 2008 industry study in which trends in the toner market are assessed and shipments are forecast through 2012.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2006 and 2012
Market size: 195,599 tons and 256,162 tons respectively
Source: “Toner Market Forecast 2008 Version,” October 2008, a multi client study produced by Data Supply Inc. and available online here.
Original source: Data Supply, Inc.
Posted on October 08, 2012

Pickles

Today’s market size is the size of the market of U.S. produced pickles and pickled products in 2005 and again in 2010. The values listed are for product shipments from the pickles and other pickled products industry (NAICS 311421P) as reported on by the U.S. Census Bureau in its reports on the manufacturing industry.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2005 and 2010
Market size: $1.31 and $1.46 billion respectively
Source: “Annual Survey of Manufactures: Value of Product Shipments: Value of Shipments for Product Classes,” the 2005 and 2010 editions, available online from the American Factfinder, for 2005, here, and for 2010, here.
Original source: U.S.Departemnt of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Posted on October 2, 2012

Self Storage Services

After decades of healthy consumer spending in the United States, it should not be a surprise that the self storage business is doing very well in the country. Of the approximately 58,500 self storage facilities in the world, 92% are located in the United States. We have accumulated more than we can fit in our homes and as of 2010 an estimated 10% of American households rented space in a self storage facilities in order to house their things.

Primary self storage facilities—those for whom the self storage services was their primary business—generated reveneus of $22.45 billion in the United States in 2011. It is a big business and one that has in recent decades been far more immune to economic cycles than most other businesses. Today’s market size is the actual size, in number of square feet, of interior storage space available in the United States in 1984 and in 2010.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 1984 and 2010
Market size: 289.7 million and 2.24 billion square feet respectively. In per capita terms, we’ve grown from 1.23 square feet worth of storage capacity per person in 1984 to 72.2 square feet per person in 2010.
Source: “Self Storage Association Preamble,” June 2012, a detailed fact sheet on the industry that is presented by the association on its web site here.
Original source: Self Storage Association
Posted on September 28, 2012

Home Wireless Routers

Many people who own tablet computers, laptops, and e-readers own wireless routers. Wireless routers allow them to connect to the Internet through these devices from anywhere in their homes. Data show sales of home wireless routers in 2005 and 2011.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2005 and 2011
Market Size: $700 million and $1.3 billion respectively
Source: Tamara Chuang, “When the Home’s Most Important Internet Device Fails,” The Street, September 17, 2012, available online here.
Original Source: Dell’Oro Group
Posted on September 26, 2012

Waste & Scrap Exports

With the growth of globalization and the increased demand on raw materials, the prices of basic commodities such as minerals, metals, wood, and paper have been volatile and has risen sharply since 2000. This has stimulated the trade in reusable waste and scrap materials, including international trade. Today’s market size is the value of all waste and scrap material exported from the United States in 2000 and in 2011.

The graph presents these data as well as the figures for the intervening years. It also shows by a differentiation in color on each bar the approximate share of the increased export value that is attributable to rising commodity prices and the share that is the result of actual increased volume. The dark blue portion of each bar is the value of exports in 2000 multiplied by the international commodity price index for minerals, ores and metals. (Please note that the Waste & Scrap category as a whole includes more than just minerals, ores and metals—although they do dominate the trade—therefore this calculation provides only an approximation). The lighter blue portion of each bar is the value of exports in excess of the inflation adjusted value of exports in the year 2000.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2000 and 2011
Market size: $5.12 and $32.74 billion respectively
Source: “U.S. Interational Trade Statistics,” (910 Waste and Scrap), a searchable database presented by the Census Bureau and availalble online here. The commodity price index data used to calculate the inflation adjusted value of 2000 exports is from “Free Market Commodity Price Indices, 1960–2011,” a report from the United National Conference on Trade and Development available online here.
Original source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census and the UNCTAD
Posted on September 24, 2012

Milk

Today’s market size is the size of milk production in the United States in 2007 and 2011. Milk prices in 2011 were at an historic high, in part because the costs of feed were also very high. The draught of 2012 has only served to tighten the feed market further and it is anticipated that both feed and milk costs will continue to rise through 2012 and beyond.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2007 and 2011
Market size: 185,655 and 196,246 million pounds
Source: “Milk Cows and Production by State and Region,” September 20, 2012, part of a series of reports produced by various agencies within the USDA’s Economic Research Service and available online here.
Original source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Posted on September 21, 2012

Child Care Services

The demand for child care services fell during the 2007–2009 recession as rising unemployment destroyed some of the demand for these services by those no longer employed. The graph shows annual revenue for child day care service providers as well as the U.S. population aged 14 years or younger for each of the years shown. The growth in population in this age group was 36% over this period (1997–2011) while the inflation adjusted rate of growth in revenues of child day care service providers was 52%.

The revenue data shown here are from reports on the industry as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau with the NAICS code 6244: Child Day Care Services.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2002 and 2011
Market size: $21.7 and $32.8 billion respectively
Source: Annual and Quarterly Services, part of quarterly reporting on the service industry as a whole done by the Census Bureau and made available online here. For the years prior to 2011, data are from the Economic Census reports for the years 1997, 2002, and 2007.
Original source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Posted on September 19, 2012