National Archives and Records Administration. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has 149 files of the Censuses of Manufactures, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992. You can find the series description, as well as the file descriptions, in NARA's Archival Research Catalog (ARC), www.archives.gov/research/arc. The ARC ID for the series description is 574852, and it can be used as the keyword to retrieve the description.