Table 7
 Capacity Utilization
 Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
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                                                  |             |             |     1972-     1994-     2001-|                              |
                                                  |             |      2007   |     2007         95        02|     2008                     |     2008                                                   
 Item                                             |    NAICS    |   proportion|     ave.       high       low|       Q2     Q3[r]     Q4[p] |  July[r]   Aug.[r]  Sept.[r]   Oct.[r]   Nov.[r]   Dec.[p] 
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  Total industry                                  |             |      100.00 |     81.0      85.1      73.6 |     79.7      77.6      75.0 |     79.4      78.3      75.0      76.3      75.2      73.6 
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  Manufacturing<1>                                |             |       80.83 |     79.7      84.6      71.5 |     77.5      75.5      71.9 |     77.1      76.2      73.1      73.7      71.9      70.2 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                        |       31-33 |       77.04 |     79.5      84.7      71.0 |     77.6      75.5      71.9 |     77.2      76.3      73.1      73.6      71.8      70.1 
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        Durable manufacturing                     |             |       41.25 |     78.0      84.2      68.1 |     75.4      73.6      67.7 |     75.2      74.0      71.4      69.6      67.8      65.9 
           Wood products                          |         321 |        1.36 |     79.9      87.9      70.7 |     66.3      64.1      56.9 |     65.3      64.8      62.1      58.7      57.4      54.5 
           Nonmetallic mineral products           |         327 |        2.35 |     79.4      84.0      74.9 |     74.9      73.9      69.8 |     75.1      74.3      72.3      72.5      68.8      68.1 
           Primary metal                          |         331 |        2.64 |     80.9      95.8      68.5 |     82.6      81.4      64.2 |     83.7      82.5      78.0      71.9      63.4      57.4 
           Fabricated metal products              |         332 |        5.64 |     77.5      85.5      69.5 |     79.6      78.2      73.8 |     78.3      78.6      77.7      76.1      74.1      71.0 
           Machinery                              |         333 |        5.15 |     78.7      87.6      63.7 |     74.4      73.2      68.6 |     73.3      74.4      71.9      70.6      68.7      66.6 
           Computer and electronic products       |         334 |        7.82 |     78.3      83.7      58.2 |     78.4      76.0      69.9 |     77.3      76.2      74.6      72.8      69.6      67.2 
          Electrical equip., appliances,          |             |             |                              |                              |
              and components                      |         335 |        1.87 |     83.2      93.1      72.0 |     83.4      81.6      76.9 |     83.2      82.3      79.3      79.4      77.0      74.3 
           Motor vehicles and parts               |      3361-3 |        5.82 |     77.4      89.0      69.7 |     64.1      62.8      56.2 |     67.4      60.1      60.9      58.6      57.1      53.0 
          Aerospace and miscellaneous             |             |             |                              |                              |
              transportation equipment            |      3364-9 |        3.69 |     72.7      68.8      62.8 |     78.8      73.1      69.3 |     77.8      77.2      64.2      62.1      69.7      76.3 
           Furniture and related products         |         337 |        1.53 |     78.6      83.2      68.2 |     71.7      68.6      62.0 |     70.7      68.0      66.9      64.7      61.5      59.8 
           Miscellaneous                          |         339 |        3.38 |     76.6      81.2      70.5 |     73.7      74.1      71.7 |     73.6      75.0      73.5      73.1      71.5      70.4 
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        Nondurable manufacturing                  |             |       35.78 |     81.6      85.4      74.8 |     80.1      77.8      76.4 |     79.4      78.9      75.0      78.1      76.3      74.7 
           Food, beverage, and tobacco products   |       311,2 |       10.68 |     81.5      84.0      75.7 |     80.8      79.6      79.7 |     79.9      79.6      79.5      80.2      80.3      78.7 
           Textile and product mills              |       313,4 |        1.08 |     82.0      91.8      68.9 |     66.0      65.9      62.2 |     65.8      66.7      65.0      64.7      61.9      60.0 
           Apparel and leather                    |       315,6 |         .66 |     78.4      87.5      60.2 |     72.1      74.0      72.2 |     73.7      74.5      73.7      71.9      72.4      72.2 
           Paper                                  |         322 |        2.50 |     87.6      92.4      78.5 |     82.2      80.8      76.2 |     81.3      82.0      79.2      77.7      76.2      74.6 
           Printing and support                   |         323 |        2.00 |     83.5      86.5      72.6 |     73.7      71.2      69.5 |     70.8      71.8      71.1      70.8      69.9      67.9 
           Petroleum and coal products            |         324 |        4.21 |     85.9      90.5      83.8 |     90.6      86.3      89.4 |     90.4      89.0      79.4      91.4      88.6      88.0 
           Chemical                               |         325 |       11.69 |     78.3      81.2      69.4 |     77.3      74.0      71.1 |     76.6      75.8      69.5      73.8      70.7      68.8 
           Plastics and rubber products           |         326 |        2.98 |     83.6      91.8      74.6 |     81.3      80.2      74.2 |     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      83.0      80.3 |     76.2      74.5      73.5 |     74.9      74.4      74.1      74.3      73.9      72.3 
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  Mining                                          |          21 |        9.90 |     87.5      88.7      84.8 |     90.8      88.9      89.7 |     92.1      91.6      82.9      88.9      90.8      89.3 
  Utilities                                       |      2211,2 |        9.27 |     86.8      93.9      84.6 |     85.6      82.6      84.0 |     84.9      80.9      82.0      83.6      84.3      84.0 
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  Selected high-technology industries             |             |        4.93 |     78.1      85.6      55.9 |     80.4      77.1      68.2 |     78.7      77.2      75.4      72.8      67.7      64.2 
     Computers and peripheral equipment           |        3341 |        1.13 |     77.9      86.3      66.8 |     80.1      73.7      66.0 |     76.1      73.9      71.1      68.7      66.1      63.1 
     Communications equipment                     |        3342 |        1.45 |     75.7      82.8      40.4 |     82.8      78.9      75.7 |     80.3      78.4      78.0      78.0      75.0      74.0 
     Semiconductors and related                   |             |             |                              |                              |
        electronic components                     |    334412-9 |        2.35 |     80.8      92.2      57.4 |     79.5      78.1      65.1 |     79.5      78.5      76.3      72.0      64.4      59.0 
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  Measures excluding selected high-technology     |             |             |                              |                              |
        industries                                |             |             |                              |                              |
  Total industry                                  |             |       95.07 |     81.2      85.0      74.8 |     79.7      77.6      75.3 |     79.5      78.4      75.0      76.4      75.5      74.0 
     Manufacturing<1>                             |             |       75.90 |     79.8      84.5      72.8 |     77.4      75.4      72.1 |     77.0      76.2      73.0      73.7      72.2      70.5 
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  Stage-of-process groups                         |             |             |                              |                              |
  Crude                                           |             |       13.93 |     86.6      89.5      81.9 |     89.2      86.2      85.1 |     89.8      89.3      79.3      85.7      85.7      83.9 
  Primary and semifinished                        |             |       47.15 |     82.2      88.2      74.6 |     79.8      77.4      74.2 |     79.2      77.8      75.3      76.5      74.1      72.1 
  Finished                                        |             |       38.92 |     77.7      80.4      69.9 |     76.0      74.5      72.0 |     75.7      74.7      73.0      72.4      72.4      71.4 
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 [r]  Revised.  [p]  Preliminary.
      <1>  See note on cover page
      Note.  See notes to table 2.