Production and Disposition of Tobacco Products

Units of tobacco product of establishment, number

Unit of tobacco product refers to item made of tobacco for the consumer to smoke. It includes products such as cigarettes and cigars.

Establishment refers to the level at which accounting data required to measure production is available (principal inputs, revenues, salaries and wages). The establishment, as a statistical unit, is defined as the most homogeneous unit of production for which the business maintains accounting records from which it is possible to assemble all the data elements required to compile the full structure of the gross value of production (total sales or shipments, and inventories), the cost of materials and services, and labour and capital used in production.