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  "dataset": "Manufacturing employment by state, July 2026: scale, concentration and change",
  "publisher": "Rockford Dock Door Repair Research",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "verified_date": "2026-09-15",
  "universe": "50 states ranked; District of Columbia separately reported, with null ranks",
  "employment_units": "thousands of payroll jobs; original source precision 0.1 thousand",
  "monthly_state_status": "July 2026 preliminary, seasonally adjusted, estimated from 2025 benchmark levels",
  "source": {
    "agency": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
    "program": "Current Employment Statistics, State and Area",
    "release": "State Employment and Unemployment - July 2026, USDL-26-1412",
    "table": "Table 3",
    "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/laus_08212026.htm",
    "released": "2026-08-21",
    "verified": "2026-09-15"
  },
  "method": {
    "ranking": "Exact rational manufacturing/nonfarm shares, with descending competition ranks for exact ties; not rounded display values.",
    "share": "manufacturing employment / total nonfarm employment * 100",
    "year_over_year_change": "July 2026 minus July 2025, from published levels",
    "year_over_year_percent": "100 * (July 2026 - July 2025) / July 2025; display rounded to one decimal; negative zero normalized to zero",
    "rank_gap": "job-count rank minus share rank",
    "national_annual_average": "Arithmetic mean of 12 monthly seasonally adjusted values, not a separately retrieved BLS M13 annual observation."
  },
  "notes": [
    "The state sum is an arithmetic result, not the independently estimated BLS national series.",
    "District of Columbia is excluded from every state ranking, top-ten set, and 50-state summary.",
    "A 0.0% displayed change can hide a nonzero change in published job levels.",
    "Neither rounding nor ranks quantify statistical uncertainty.",
    "Puerto Rico is preserved below outside the state/DC dataset and all rankings.",
    "U.S. Virgin Islands manufacturing is not published seasonally adjusted in the source table; absence is not zero.",
    "Annual local data and national observations are separate supplements, not inputs to monthly state rankings.",
    "Raw observations were checked against primary sources on the verification date; reproduction of arithmetic does not independently certify transcription."
  ],
  "checks": {
    "row_count_matches_51_and_50_ranked": true,
    "net_changes_tie_to_difference_of_sums": true,
    "state_change_counts_sum_to_50": true,
    "state_ranks_unchanged_if_dc_temporarily_included": true,
    "rounded_change_counts_reconcile": true
  },
  "summary": {
    "state_count": 50,
    "dc_rows": 1,
    "ranked_geographies": 50,
    "sum_50_states_mfg_jul2026_jobs": 12546700,
    "sum_50_states_mfg_jul2025_jobs": 12567400,
    "sum_50_states_plus_dc_mfg_jul2026_jobs": 12547700,
    "net_change_50_states_jobs": -20700,
    "net_change_50_states_plus_dc_jobs": -20800,
    "state_level_changes": {
      "positive": 20,
      "negative": 27,
      "unchanged_at_published_precision": 3
    },
    "state_rounded_percent_changes": {
      "positive": 20,
      "negative": 26,
      "zero_rounded": 4
    },
    "top_ten_overlap": [
      "Indiana",
      "Michigan",
      "Ohio",
      "Wisconsin"
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    "states_moving_at_least_10_places": 29,
    "states_moving_at_least_20_places": 9,
    "median_absolute_rank_gap": 11.0,
    "maximum_absolute_rank_gap": 32,
    "states_with_equal_ranks": [
      "Louisiana",
      "Michigan",
      "Missouri"
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    "states_share_at_least_10_pct": 13,
    "states_share_below_5_pct": 10,
    "top5_jobs_percent_of_50_state_arithmetic_sum": 32.1,
    "top10_jobs_percent_of_50_state_arithmetic_sum": 51.3,
    "positive_state_net_changes_sum_jobs": 56900,
    "top5_positive_state_net_changes_jobs": 35800,
    "top5_positive_state_net_changes_share_pct": 62.9
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