I recently put together an inventory of all my tools for insurance purposes. There are in excess of 200 tools and I had to come up with a replacement value for each, so this was not a trivial task.
Since all the data was already in a table, I decided to add a column for "Country of Manufacture". Next I added up total value by country then worked out percentage totals of where my tools originated. I then organized a summary of the form:
Country Percentage of Total Value
Country 1 j%
Country 2 k%
Etc.
I thought that some people might be interested in the results.
I was able to identify the country of origin for about 99 percent of my tools. It turns out that the tools were manufactured in 13 known countries and that there are 5 countries with a percentage of 10 or more.
Anyone care to hazard a guess at those 5 countries and of the "winning" country? I will let you guess for a while, then post the results this evening.