MQ334R Computers and Peripheral Equipment

CURRENT INDUSTRIAL REPORTS SERIES
2008

MQ334R — COMPUTERS AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT
DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Scope of survey

b. Columnar structure of report

This survey covers manufacturers of computers and
related equipment. Computers are also referred to as
automatic data processing machines.

W hen entering your figures on the report form, please be
sure to report the information in the correct columns as
follows:

2. Figures to be reported

Column 1 — Quantity
Column 2 — Value (report shipments in thousands of
dollars. Example: $1,000,000, report as $1,000)

Companies with more than one establishment
manufacturing the products covered by this survey are
requested to complete a separate report form for each
location. If you have not received a separate form for
each of your establishments, please call the contact
shown on the report form or write to the U.S. Census
Bureau for additional forms.

c. Special instructions
Parts — Report a component or subassem bly in the parts
category only if:
(1) Your company fabricates or assembles the com plete
item at the reporting location; and

a. Quantity and value of shipments
The figures on quantity and value of shipments should
include the physical shipments of all products sold,
transferred to other establishments within your company,
or shipped on consignment, whether for domestic or
export sale. The value represents the net sales price,
f.o.b. plant, to the customer or branch to which the
products are shipped, net of discounts, allowances, freight
charges and returns. Shipments to your own branches
should be assigned the sam e value as com parable sales to
unaffiliated customers, i.e., the value includes an
appropriate allocation of com pany overhead and profit.
Products bought and resold without further manufacture
should not be included in shipments.

(2) The item is not explicitly specified within the 10–digit
North American Industry Classification System
(NAICS)-based product classifications as defined for
use in the 5–year Economic Census or Current
Industrial Reports (CIR) program.

Include shipments of new and completed machines and
parts which are sold separately. Include machines shipped
on consignment as well as to central warehouses and
sales branches of your company, whether or not they
were sold by the end of the reporting year. Deduct
allow ances for products returned during the reporting year.
Include factory rebuilt machines but not those
reconditioned or repaired. Do not include products
manufactured in other plants of your company or products
made by other manufacturers which were purchased by
you for resale.
Leased machines — For products leased or rented by your
company, report the number and estimated values. The
estimate should approximate the value of the products
sold outright. If no such prices exist, the value may be
based on the valuation placed on these items for tax,
insurance, or similar purposes.

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Exclude:
•

Printed circuit boards without componentry (report
on CIR Form MA334Q)

•

Other electronic componentry (e.g. relays,
capacitors, switches, semiconductors; report on
CIR Form MA334Q)

•

Power supplies (report on CIR Form MA334Q)

•

Fasteners, stampings, and similar hardware

•

Equipment enclosures (also NAICS 332322C101,
332322C206, 332322C311)

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DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS — Continued

c. Special Instructions—Continued
Include:
• Other subassemblies not specified elsewhere that
are specialized for use only in complete
equipment you manufacture.
3. Definitions
ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS
Blade server (item code 1124)–A thin, modular electronic
circuit board, containing one or more microprocessors,
that is dedicated to a single task. The operating system
and its application program are already on board.
Host systems (item codes 1110–1197) — Systems that
are designed to simultaneously execute instructions from
multiple users.
Single-user computers (item codes 1410–1492) —
Designed and sold as a single user system— Limited to
those systems designed to execute instructions from a
single user. User programmable in a high-level language
and can independently initiate and operate end user
applications. Exclude any special purpose processors
such as consumer/financial systems, fixed function
devices such as calculators, word/spelling/language
processors, note takers, etc.

Computer peripheral equipment, n.e.c. (item codes
3737–3890) — Exclude devices that can com municate
within a computer system but that are designed prim arily
for some other application that is not prim arily
computational in nature. For example, exclude equipment
designed primarily for measurement or control (NAICS
334513 and 334515), communication (NAICS 334210
and 334220), machining (NAICS 333511 through
333518), or any other specific application.
Bar code devices (item code 3752) — Equipment for
reading an array of rectangular bars and spaces which are
arranged in a predetermined pattern following
unambiguous rules in a specific way to represent elements
of data which are referred to as characters. Includes
readers, scanners and decoders.

Sm art handheld devices (item code 1447)–These devices
include Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s), pen-based
handhelds, key-based handhelds, and convergence
devices. Mobile phones are excluded.
Other com puters (item code 1500) — Include products
that are dedicated towards a specific task that is
computational in nature. Examples of such products are
array processors, database processors, vector processors,
and image processors. Usually these processors work on
a specific class of tasks in combination with some other
computer. Include analog or hybrid computers.

COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES, TERMINALS, AND
PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT

Com puter terminals (item codes 2840–2860) — General
purpose equipment for human-controlled data entry into or
interaction with a computer system. Local processing,
storage or other intelligence is limited to that required for
formatting data for output, display or communication.
Exclude personal computers or workstations, which should
be reported in items 1410 or 1420. Report point-of-sale
terminals in items 4017. Also see "Computer peripheral
equipm ent, not elsewhere classified (n,e.c).”

Magnetic strip (item code 3788) — Records, or encodes,
information onto a material, using low or high energy
electromagnetic charges. These charges or signals can
then be read by a decoder that translates them into
numbers and characters for identification by a computer.
Funds transfer devices (item code 4017) — Devices
facilitating the handling of various financial transactions
involving the consumer and financial institutions.
Typically, these devices provide services such as account
status inquiries, transfers of funds to and from various
accounts, withdrawals, deposits, and payments.
Point-of-sale devices (item code 4017) — Devices
facilitating the handling of various retail transactions
involving the sale, exchange, or return of merchandise or
service.
ABBREVIATIONS AND METRIC CONVERSIONS

Com puter storage devices (item codes 2170–2650) —
Equipment for data storage in addition to the main or
cache storage of a computer (e.g., disk drives, tape
drives). Exclude storage media (e.g. disks, tape), which
should be reported as "magnetic and optical recording
media" (items 5042–5060).

cm = Centimeters (cm)
2 inches = 2.54 centimeters (cm)
cm = 0.3937 inches

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4. Comparability
If you also report in the Annual Survey of
Manufactures (Form MA-10000), the sum of values for
item codes show n in colum n (a) should correspond to
the dollar values reported under product class codes
indicated in column (b) below:
Current Industrial Reports
(Form MQ334R)

Annual Survey of
Manufactures

Item codes
(a)

Product class codes
(b)

1110 through 1197

3341111

1410 through 1492

3341117

1500

334111D

2170 through 2625

3341121

2650

3341124

2840

3341131

2860

3341134

3737 through 3885

3341191

3890

3341194

4017

3341197

4035

334119D

5042 through 5060

3346130

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Product
code

COMPUTERS AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT
Item
code

Item description
ELECTRONIC COMPUTER MANUFACTURING
(Report quantity in number of units)

3341111101
3341111104
3341111108
3341111112
3341111117

1110
1115
1124
1130
1197

Large-scale systems, including mainframes and super computers
Midrange servers (all sizes)
Blade servers
PC servers
Other host computers

3341111

1199

Total host computers (sum of item codes 1110–1197)

3341117107
3341117109

1410
1420

3341117127
3341117129
3341117130

1437
1447
1492

Personal computers
W orkstations (microprocessor-based single-user systems distinguished from PCs by
operating systems and relative-high performance)
Mobile computers (include notebooks, subnotebooks, laptops, and tablet PCs)
Smart handheld devices
All other single-user computers

3341117

1499

Total single user computers (sum of item codes 1410–1492)

334111D

1500

Other computers (including array and other analog, hybrid or special purpose
computers)

334111

1599

Total Computers (sum of item codes 1199, 1499, and 1500)
COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES

3341121109

2170

Disk subsystems and disk arrays for multiuser computer systems

3341121112

2227

Disk drives (all sizes)

3341121123

2390

Storage Area Networks (SANs)

3341121138

2597

Tape drives (all sizes)

3341121150

2625

Other computer storage devices

3341121

2629

Total computer storage devices and equipment (sum of item codes 2170–2625)

3341124

2650

Computer storage parts and subassemblies
COMPUTER TERM INALS

3341131

2840

Computer term inals

3341134

2860

Computer terminal parts and subassemblies (see instructions)

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Product
code

Item
code

Item description
COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT

3341191110
3341191115
3341191117
3341191124
3341191127
3341191132
3341191136
3341191147
3341191152
3341191157
3341191160

3737
3752
3758
3777
3788
3807
3825
3854
3867
3880
3885

Input devices, all types
Optical scanning devices: bar codes
Optical scanning devices: OCR equipment
Optical scanning devices: scanners
Magnetic strip and ink recognition equipment
Impact printers: line type and serial type
Nonimpact printers, including laser and multifunction
Monitors: flat bed panel, excluding term inals
Monitors: other than flat panel
Accessories for computer peripherals
All other peripheral equipment

3341191

3889

Total computer peripheral equipment (sum of item codes 3737–3885)

3341194

3890

Parts and subassemblies for computer peripherals

3341197

4017

Funds transfer and P.O.S. term inals

334119D

4035

Parts and attachments for P.O.S. and funds transfer devices
MAGNETIC AND OPTICAL RECORDING

3346130615
3346130630

5042
5060

Optical disks
Magnetic recording media, including parts

3346130

5099

Total magnetic and optical recording media and parts (sum of item codes 5042–
5060)
SELECTED NONM ANUFACTURING REVENUES

9999998900

9110

Resales— Sales of products bought and sold without further manufacture, processing,
or assembly

9999998041

9140

Research and development, testing and evaluation of systems and com ponents

9999737230

9290

Systems integration revenues

1/28/08

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