Statistics Chart Industry's Growth.BIFMA's statistical programs provide a benchmark for office furniture manufacturers. * The value of U.S. office furniture shipments grew from $3.332 billion in 1980 to $12.240 billion in 1999, a fact that might not be known if not for the statistics-gathering arm of BIFMA BIFMA Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Association International. The collecting, reporting and analyzing of statistical data about the office furniture industry is one of the primary missions of BIFMA and one of the cornerstones of the association's establishment. The data captured in BIFMA's monthly surveys of its members provides a benchmark for office furniture companies to measure their individual company's performance against that of the whole industry. The shipments survey also provides BIFMA with the base information needed to plug into an econometric model Econometric models are used by economists to find standard relationships among aspects of the macroeconomy and use those relationships to predict the effects of certain events (like government policies) on inflation, unemployment, growth, etc. to project future shipments. The historical data amassed over the years combined with current and predicted economic trends has led BIFMA to project the value of U.S. office furniture shipments to reach a record of $13.340 billion and $14.000 billion, respectively, in 2000 and 2001. Some of the other statistics captured by BIFMA include furniture shipments by product category (seating, desks, systems, etc.); U.S. office furniture imports and exports; and channels of office furniture distribution. BIFMA's ongoing statistical analysis indicates that the overall wood and non-wood product mix remains relatively constant at approximately 25 percent wood product and 75 percent non-wood product. Visit bifma.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. for More Information Industry statistics are one of the hooks that lure lure the skin-covered object which runs on a monorail on a Greyhound racing track and which the dogs are schooled to chase. The lure must be kept 30 to 40 ft ahead of the leading dog so that the field is stretched out. visitors to BIFMA International's Web site: www.bifma.org. Once there, however, browsers find a host of other unique and valuable information. This includes: * Summaries of ANSI/BIFMA standards along with an online ordering form. * Links to BIFMA member Web sites. * News about the office furniture industry. * PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. tiles of "Download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. " BIFMA's quarterly newsletter, * Calendar of association and industry events. * Member's only section, featuring a historical statistic statistic, n a value or number that describes a series of quantitative observations or measures; a value calculated from a sample. statistic a numerical value calculated from a number of observations in order to summarize them. reference library, archives of BIFMA meeting minutes, position papers on government issues and more. |
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