Table 2
 CAPACITY UTILIZATION: MANUFACTURING, MINING, AND UTILITIES
 Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
                                               |             |           |    1972-             1988-    1990-    1994-    2001-|         |
                                               |             |    2007   |    2007      1982     1989     1991     1995     2002|    2007 |     2008                                                   
 Item                                          |    NAICS    | Proportion|    Ave.       Low     High      Low     High      Low|    Dec. |  July[r]   Aug.[r]  Sept.[r]   Oct.[r]   Nov.[r]   Dec.[p] 
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  Total industry                               |             |    100.00 |    81.0     70.9     85.0     78.6     85.1     73.6 |    81.0 |     79.4      78.3      75.0      76.3      75.2      73.6 
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  Stage-of-process groups                      |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Crude                                        |             |     13.93 |    86.6     78.2     88.3     84.4     89.5     81.9 |    90.2 |     89.8      89.3      79.3      85.7      85.7      83.9 
  Primary and semifinished                     |             |     47.15 |    82.2     67.9     86.4     77.8     88.2     74.6 |    81.0 |     79.2      77.8      75.3      76.5      74.1      72.1 
  Finished                                     |             |     38.92 |    77.7     71.0     82.8     77.1     80.4     69.9 |    77.7 |     75.7      74.7      73.0      72.4      72.4      71.4 
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 Industry Groups                               |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Manufacturing                                |             |     80.83 |    79.7     68.5     85.4     77.1     84.6     71.5 |    79.2 |     77.1      76.2      73.1      73.7      71.9      70.2 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                     |       31-33 |     77.04 |    79.5     67.8     85.3     77.0     84.7     71.0 |    79.2 |     77.2      76.3      73.1      73.6      71.8      70.1 
        Durable manufacturing                  |             |     41.25 |    78.0     62.9     84.6     73.5     84.2     68.1 |    77.7 |     75.2      74.0      71.4      69.6      67.8      65.9 
           Wood products                       |         321 |      1.36 |    79.9     59.4     87.3     72.7     87.9     70.7 |    69.6 |     65.3      64.8      62.1      58.7      57.4      54.5 
           Nonmetallic mineral products        |         327 |      2.35 |    79.4     62.9     85.4     71.7     84.0     74.9 |    76.3 |     75.1      74.3      72.3      72.5      68.8      68.1 
           Primary metal                       |         331 |      2.64 |    80.9     46.9     93.8     75.0     95.8     68.5 |    84.9 |     83.7      82.5      78.0      71.9      63.4      57.4 
              Iron and steel products          |      3311,2 |      1.24 |    82.4     38.0     97.9     71.3    100.3     69.5 |    92.0 |     90.3      87.6      78.6      66.1      51.3      40.9 
           Fabricated metal products           |         332 |      5.64 |    77.5     61.8     81.7     72.7     85.5     69.5 |    81.1 |     78.3      78.6      77.7      76.1      74.1      71.0 
           Machinery                           |         333 |      5.15 |    78.7     58.0     85.3     74.0     87.6     63.7 |    76.5 |     73.3      74.4      71.9      70.6      68.7      66.6 
           Computer and electronic products    |         334 |      7.82 |    78.3     77.4     81.9     76.7     83.7     58.2 |    77.9 |     77.3      76.2      74.6      72.8      69.6      67.2 
           Computer and peripheral equip.      |        3341 |      1.13 |    77.9     67.1     79.7     69.8     86.3     66.8 |    78.9 |     76.1      73.9      71.1      68.7      66.1      63.1 
              Communications equipment         |        3342 |      1.45 |    75.7     84.8     85.3     76.9     82.8     40.4 |    81.6 |     80.3      78.4      78.0      78.0      75.0      74.0 
              Semiconductor and related        |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    electronic components      |    334412-9 |      2.35 |    80.8     76.7     82.9     78.0     92.2     57.4 |    80.3 |     79.5      78.5      76.3      72.0      64.4      59.0 
           Electrical equipment, appliances,   |             |           |                                                      |         |
                 and components                |         335 |      1.87 |    83.2     64.6     89.1     77.0     93.1     72.0 |    84.0 |     83.2      82.3      79.3      79.4      77.0      74.3 
           Transportation equipment            |         336 |      9.51 |    75.5     56.1     86.7     67.7     79.8     69.1 |    75.5 |     71.4      66.8      62.1      59.9      62.0      62.2 
              Motor vehicles and parts         |      3361-3 |      5.82 |    77.4     44.9     89.5     56.0     89.0     69.7 |    72.4 |     67.4      60.1      60.9      58.6      57.1      53.0 
                 Autos and light trucks        |       33611 |      2.59 |    77.6     39.7     94.5     53.5     89.5     74.7 |    70.7 |     65.8      54.1      56.1      52.6      50.8      44.0 
              Aerospace and miscellaneous      |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    transportation equipment   |      3364-9 |      3.69 |    72.7     69.0     87.4     81.0     68.8     62.8 |    80.4 |     77.8      77.2      64.2      62.1      69.7      76.3 
           Furniture and related products      |         337 |      1.53 |    78.6     65.7     82.2     67.6     83.2     68.2 |    76.0 |     70.7      68.0      66.9      64.7      61.5      59.8 
           Miscellaneous                       |         339 |      3.38 |    76.6     68.9     82.5     77.3     81.2     70.5 |    75.0 |     73.6      75.0      73.5      73.1      71.5      70.4 
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        Nondurable manufacturing               |             |     35.78 |    81.6     75.4     86.7     81.4     85.4     74.8 |    81.0 |     79.4      78.9      75.0      78.1      76.3      74.7 
           Food                                |         311 |      7.92 |    82.4     80.3     85.8     83.4     84.1     77.3 |    84.7 |     84.1      84.0      83.7      85.0      85.0      82.8 
           Beverage and tobacco products       |         312 |      2.76 |    79.0     78.0     86.9     73.9     86.0     64.9 |    69.8 |     67.4      66.2      67.0      65.5      66.5      66.3 
           Textile mills                       |         313 |       .55 |    81.9     72.3     91.4     77.8     93.6     66.0 |    68.8 |     65.6      68.2      65.6      64.9      61.0      58.7 
           Textile product mills               |         314 |       .52 |    82.0     70.4     90.7     75.4     88.7     73.2 |    69.0 |     66.0      65.2      64.2      64.4      62.8      61.1 
           Apparel                             |         315 |       .55 |    78.9     76.5     84.6     77.2     88.8     60.8 |    74.5 |     73.3      73.9      72.8      71.5      72.7      72.6 
           Leather and allied products         |         316 |       .11 |    75.3     75.9     78.8     70.2     81.6     53.9 |    72.8 |     75.5      77.5      78.2      73.8      70.8      70.4 
           Paper                               |         322 |      2.50 |    87.6     81.4     92.6     86.1     92.4     78.5 |    84.1 |     81.3      82.0      79.2      77.7      76.2      74.6 
           Printing and support                |         323 |      2.00 |    83.5     80.4     91.7     82.6     86.5     72.6 |    76.3 |     70.8      71.8      71.1      70.8      69.9      67.9 
           Petroleum and coal products         |         324 |      4.21 |    85.9     68.8     88.2     82.4     90.5     83.8 |    88.8 |     90.4      89.0      79.4      91.4      88.6      88.0 
           Chemical                            |         325 |     11.69 |    78.3     67.9     85.0     79.9     81.2     69.4 |    78.9 |     76.6      75.8      69.5      73.8      70.7      68.8 
              Plastics material and resin      |      325211 |       .86 |    87.0     65.5     91.8     79.5    101.6     80.6 |    89.5 |     84.0      82.2      58.0      79.3                     
              Synthetic rubber                 |      325212 |       .09 |    76.3     54.6     94.0     71.9     86.4     54.6 |    71.4 |     76.4      75.3      68.7      66.1      69.5      67.7 
              Artificial and synthetic fibers  |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    and filaments              |       32522 |       .11 |    81.5     63.1     94.1     75.7     90.9     57.3 |    78.2 |     72.1      67.1      70.0      66.8      57.4           
           Plastics and rubber products        |         326 |      2.98 |    83.6     71.8     89.8     76.4     91.8     74.6 |    84.2 |     81.8      80.2      78.6      76.6      74.1      72.0 
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     Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)           |   1133,5111 |      3.79 |    84.5     86.7     91.1     80.4     83.0     80.3 |    79.0 |     74.9      74.4      74.1      74.3      73.9      72.3 
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  Mining                                       |          21 |      9.90 |    87.5     79.6     86.3     83.6     88.7     84.8 |    90.9 |     92.1      91.6      82.9      88.9      90.8      89.3 
     Oil and gas extraction                    |         211 |      6.16 |    92.1     89.5     91.9     89.6     94.8     89.8 |    95.8 |     97.0      95.8      82.4      91.3      95.0      95.3 
     Mining (except oil and gas)               |         212 |      1.91 |    83.8     67.6     90.3     80.0     86.9     78.7 |    78.7 |     78.6      79.1      78.6      80.6      78.5      74.5 
        Coal mining                            |        2121 |       .66 |    86.0     76.3     92.5     79.5     87.0     78.8 |    86.4 |     85.9      88.2      86.8      88.4      87.2           
        Metal mining                           |        2122 |       .58 |    78.6     32.5     91.2     80.9     90.0     66.3 |    78.4 |     84.2      86.3      84.8      83.7      83.1      80.9 
        Stone and earth minerals               |        2123 |       .67 |    82.8     63.6     89.2     75.9     90.8     78.9 |    71.7 |     66.6      63.9      65.3      70.5      66.0      58.1 
     Support activities for mining             |         213 |      1.84 |    75.2     53.3     63.0     53.1     76.6     64.9 |    86.6 |     88.4      89.7      91.6      90.1      88.5      82.2 
  Utilities                                    |      2211,2 |      9.27 |    86.8     77.7     92.7     84.1     93.9     84.6 |    85.5 |     84.9      80.9      82.0      83.6      84.3      84.0 
     Electric                                  |        2211 |      7.55 |    88.3     78.5     94.1     87.1     96.6     87.3 |    85.9 |     86.0      81.5      83.0      83.8      85.0      84.6 
     Natural gas                               |        2212 |      1.72 |    79.9     72.9     86.5     67.4     87.6     70.4 |    82.2 |     79.6      77.4      76.7      82.2      80.5      80.6 
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 Special Aggregates                            |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Selected high-technology industries          |             |      4.93 |    78.1     75.1     81.7     75.3     85.6     55.9 |    80.4 |     78.7      77.2      75.4      72.8      67.7      64.2 
  Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech         |             |           |                                                      |         |
        industries                             |             |     75.90 |    79.8     68.0     85.8     77.2     84.5     72.8 |    79.2 |     77.0      76.2      73.0      73.7      72.2      70.5 
  Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech         |             |           |                                                      |         |
        and motor vehicles and pts.            |             |     70.08 |    80.0     69.4     85.5     79.1     84.2     72.6 |    79.7 |     77.8      77.4      74.0      74.9      73.4      71.9 
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 r  Revised.  p  Preliminary.