PRELIMINARY DRAFT Prices and Quantities of Electricity in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector: A Plant-Level Database and Public-Release Statistics, 1963-2000 By Steven J. Davis, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Mary Streitwieser* November 9, 2007 Abstract This paper describes the Prices and Quantities of Electricity in Manufacturing (PQEM) database, which contains plant-level observations on electricity purchases, electricity prices and electricity suppliers for the U.S. manufacturing sector. To construct the database, we link plant-level data on electricity prices and quantities in the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) to information on electricity suppliers from the Energy Information Administration and other sources. The resulting database contains about 1.8 million annual observations over the period from 1963 to 2000. *University of Chicago, NBER and American Enterprise Institute; Bureau of the Census; University of Maryland, Bureau of the Census and NBER; and Bureau of Economic Analysis, respectively. The analysis and results presented in this paper are attributable to the authors and do not necessarily reflect concurrence by the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. This work is unofficial and thus has not undergone the review accorded to official Census Bureau publications. The views expressed in the paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results were reviewed to ensure confidentiality. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis or the U.S. Department of Commerce. We thank Monica Garcia-Perez for excellent research assistance and colleagues at the Center for Economic Studies for many helpful comments. We are especially grateful to Rodney Dunn for comments and assistance with the EIA 861 data files. Davis and Haltiwanger gratefully acknowledge research support from the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant number SBR-9730667.