Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

Annual Revision (426 KB PDF) (ASCII)

Release Date: April 1, 2016

Table 6 Revised and Earlier Capacity Utilization Rates, by Industry Groups

Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
                   
Item NAICS Revised rate Difference between
revised and earlier rates
(percentage points)
1972-
2015
Ave.

2012
Q4

2013
Q4

2014
Q4
 
2015 
Q4 

2012
Q4

2013
Q4

2014
Q4

2015
Q4
Total industry   80.0 76.6 77.3 78.6 75.8 .1 .3 -.2 -1.2
       
Manufacturing[1]   78.5 74.3 74.6 76.0 75.4 .2 .4 -.2 -.6
Manufacturing (NAICS) 31-33 78.4 74.8 75.0 76.4 75.7 .2 .3 -.6 -1.0
       
Durable manufacturing   76.9 74.3 74.8 77.0 76.1 .1 .4 .1 .3
Wood products 321 76.4 69.5 71.8 71.4 67.8 3.2 1.6 -.5 -3.1
Nonmetallic mineral products 327 74.0 57.2 60.8 63.9 66.4 1.4 1.8 1.4 .8
Primary metals 331 78.8 75.3 75.0 75.4 70.4 -.8 -1.0 -2.5 -1.4
Fabricated metal products 332 77.6 77.5 80.6 81.6 79.4 .2 1.1 .1 -1.0
Machinery 333 77.7 78.5 74.2 75.9 72.1 -.7 .3 -2.1 -1.5
Computer and electronic products 334 77.6 73.4 70.2 73.2 73.2 .2 -2.8 -.9 2.3
Electrical equip., appliances,
and components
335 82.6 81.5 82.6 82.9 84.8 -.2 1.5 -.1 -4.1
Motor vehicles and parts 3361-3 74.9 69.4 73.5 77.9 80.9 .0 .6 1.4 2.4
Aerospace and miscellaneous
transportation equipment
3364-9 74.0 78.4 79.0 83.1 81.9 -.2 2.5 4.8 3.4
Furniture and related products 337 76.5 71.9 72.6 75.9 77.9 2.1 .4 -3.0 -3.0
Miscellaneous 339 76.4 75.8 78.8 79.1 77.1 -.2 1.5 .2 -.3
       
Nondurable manufacturing   80.3 75.3 75.2 75.6 75.3 .3 .1 -1.4 -2.4
Food, beverage, and tobacco products 311,2 80.8 78.5 79.1 77.5 76.0 .3 .2 -1.5 -3.4
Textile and product mills 313,4 79.3 67.2 72.3 72.5 71.7 1.1 1.2 -.7 -2.8
Apparel and leather 315,6 76.8 67.5 66.4 66.1 63.5 4.5 2.5 .4 -.9
Paper 322 86.6 83.5 82.5 84.4 82.2 -.1 -.1 .9 .2
Printing and support 323 79.7 61.4 63.0 63.7 65.6 -.6 -.2 .4 1.9
Petroleum and coal products 324 85.4 83.0 83.9 81.7 80.4 2.0 1.6 -1.7 -4.5
Chemicals 325 77.1 71.1 69.5 72.0 73.2 -.4 -.6 -1.7 -1.6
Plastics and rubber products 326 82.0 77.9 77.9 81.0 80.0 1.9 1.9 .3 -1.9
       
Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) 1133,5111 81.0 61.6 65.1 65.3 66.2 -1.1 2.6 6.8 7.3
       
Mining 21 87.3 88.2 87.6 90.9 79.0 -.6 -.8 .2 -1.1
Utilities 2211,2 85.8 78.3 81.8 80.4 76.6 .0 .0 .4 .2
       
Selected high-technology industries   77.5 69.9 67.5 73.3 73.7 .5 -4.0 1.3 5.7
Computers and peripheral equipment 3341 77.6 64.9 64.0 69.9 66.9 -2.1 -.1 3.5 4.7
Communications equipment 3342 76.6 76.3 80.4 72.9 67.7 .1 -5.5 -1.3 -2.7
Semiconductors and related
electronic components
3344 78.9 69.1 63.9 74.3 77.9 1.0 -5.3 1.4 9.2
       
Measures excluding selected high-technology
industries
Total industry   80.1 76.8 77.6 78.7 75.9 .0 .4 -.3 -1.5
Manufacturing[1]   78.5 74.5 74.9 76.1 75.4 .2 .6 -.3 -.9
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude   86.3 86.1 85.5 87.7 78.7 -.1 -.8 -.5 -1.7
Primary and semifinished   80.6 74.2 75.9 77.1 75.8 .4 .5 .2 .0
Finished   77.0 74.7 74.5 75.8 75.0 -.3 .4 -.4 -1.0

1. See footnote 2 to table 2. Return to table



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