Table 2
 CAPACITY UTILIZATION: MANUFACTURING, MINING, AND UTILITIES
 Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
                                               |             |           |    1972-             1988-    1990-    1994-    2001-|         |
                                               |             |    2008   |    2008      1982     1989     1991     1995     2002|    2008 |     2008                                              2009 
 Item                                          |    NAICS    | Proportion|    Ave.       Low     High      Low     High      Low|    Jan. |  Aug.[r]  Sept.[r]   Oct.[r]   Nov.[r]   Dec.[r]   Jan.[p] 
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  Total industry                               |             |    100.00 |    80.9     70.9     85.0     78.6     85.1     73.6 |    81.0 |     78.3      75.0      76.1      75.2      73.3      72.0 
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  Stage-of-process groups                      |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Crude                                        |             |     15.43 |    86.7     78.2     88.3     84.4     89.5     81.9 |    89.5 |     89.4      79.7      86.2      86.6      84.7      83.9 
  Primary and semifinished                     |             |     46.72 |    82.1     67.9     86.4     77.8     88.2     74.6 |    81.3 |     77.7      75.2      76.2      74.2      71.6      70.4 
  Finished                                     |             |     37.85 |    77.6     71.0     82.8     77.1     80.4     69.9 |    77.5 |     74.7      73.1      72.2      71.9      70.9      69.3 
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 Industry Groups                               |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Manufacturing                                |             |     79.90 |    79.6     68.5     85.4     77.1     84.6     71.5 |    79.1 |     76.2      73.2      73.6      71.9      69.7      68.0 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                     |       31-33 |     76.28 |    79.4     67.8     85.3     77.0     84.7     71.0 |    79.1 |     76.3      73.2      73.6      71.8      69.6      67.9 
        Durable manufacturing                  |             |     39.56 |    77.9     62.9     84.6     73.5     84.2     68.1 |    77.5 |     74.0      71.4      69.5      67.7      65.5      62.4 
           Wood products                       |         321 |      1.24 |    79.5     59.4     87.3     72.7     87.9     70.7 |    68.2 |     64.7      61.9      58.7      57.1      53.0      51.0 
           Nonmetallic mineral products        |         327 |      2.29 |    79.2     62.9     85.4     71.7     84.0     74.9 |    76.3 |     74.0      72.2      72.4      68.8      66.6      64.8 
           Primary metal                       |         331 |      2.61 |    80.8     46.9     93.8     75.0     95.8     68.5 |    86.6 |     82.5      77.8      71.5      63.1      55.9      54.8 
              Iron and steel products          |      3311,2 |      1.20 |    82.3     38.0     97.9     71.3    100.3     69.5 |    92.0 |     87.7      78.3      65.9      51.0      40.0      39.1 
           Fabricated metal products           |         332 |      5.50 |    77.5     61.8     81.7     72.7     85.5     69.5 |    81.3 |     78.3      77.3      75.9      75.0      72.3      69.4 
           Machinery                           |         333 |      5.01 |    78.5     58.0     85.3     74.0     87.6     63.7 |    76.7 |     74.5      72.0      70.5      68.9      66.3      63.6 
           Computer and electronic products    |         334 |      7.28 |    78.2     77.4     81.9     76.7     83.7     58.2 |    77.2 |     76.2      74.7      72.6      69.0      65.9      64.6 
           Computer and peripheral equip.      |        3341 |      1.02 |    77.8     67.1     79.7     69.8     86.3     66.8 |    79.7 |     73.6      70.3      66.5      62.6      58.3      56.0 
              Communications equipment         |        3342 |      1.37 |    75.8     84.8     85.3     76.9     82.8     40.4 |    80.2 |     78.4      78.0      77.5      76.9      75.4      76.2 
              Semiconductor and related        |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    electronic components      |    334412-9 |      2.14 |    80.7     76.7     82.9     78.0     92.2     57.4 |    78.9 |     78.6      76.5      72.2      63.4      56.1      51.9 
           Electrical equipment, appliances,   |             |           |                                                      |         |
                 and components                |         335 |      1.87 |    83.2     64.6     89.1     77.0     93.1     72.0 |    83.9 |     82.1      79.8      79.4      78.0      75.2      73.8 
           Transportation equipment            |         336 |      9.01 |    75.3     56.1     86.7     67.7     79.8     69.1 |    75.1 |     67.0      62.1      59.9      61.2      61.7      53.8 
              Motor vehicles and parts         |      3361-3 |      5.43 |    77.0     44.9     89.5     56.0     89.0     69.7 |    71.3 |     60.1      60.7      58.1      56.8      52.2      40.2 
                 Autos and light trucks        |       33611 |      2.39 |    77.0     39.7     94.5     53.5     89.5     74.7 |    69.7 |     54.1      56.0      51.9      50.5      43.6      25.3 
              Aerospace and miscellaneous      |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    transportation equipment   |      3364-9 |      3.58 |    72.7     69.0     87.4     81.0     68.8     62.8 |    81.0 |     77.6      64.6      62.8      68.1      76.3      74.5 
           Furniture and related products      |         337 |      1.43 |    78.3     65.7     82.2     67.6     83.2     68.2 |    74.5 |     68.2      66.9      64.8      61.9      61.1      60.0 
           Miscellaneous                       |         339 |      3.31 |    76.5     68.9     82.5     77.3     81.2     70.5 |    75.2 |     74.8      73.5      72.8      71.8      70.2      70.4 
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        Nondurable manufacturing               |             |     36.72 |    81.5     75.4     86.7     81.4     85.4     74.8 |    81.0 |     78.8      75.2      78.1      76.3      74.1      73.8 
           Food                                |         311 |      8.04 |    82.4     80.3     85.8     83.4     84.1     77.3 |    84.8 |     84.0      83.9      84.7      84.4      82.2      82.9 
           Beverage and tobacco products       |         312 |      2.64 |    78.7     78.0     86.9     73.9     86.0     64.9 |    69.0 |     66.3      67.4      66.1      67.1      66.3      66.0 
           Textile mills                       |         313 |       .50 |    81.5     72.3     91.4     77.8     93.6     66.0 |    67.8 |     67.4      65.3      64.6      61.4      57.2      57.3 
           Textile product mills               |         314 |       .50 |    81.5     70.4     90.7     75.4     88.7     73.2 |    66.8 |     65.2      64.3      64.1      62.9      61.3      60.3 
           Apparel                             |         315 |       .49 |    78.7     76.5     84.6     77.2     88.8     60.8 |    73.9 |     73.8      72.6      71.4      69.8      68.7      66.7 
           Leather and allied products         |         316 |       .10 |    75.2     75.9     78.8     70.2     81.6     53.9 |    72.5 |     75.9      77.5      73.1      64.5      66.0      64.8 
           Paper                               |         322 |      2.43 |    87.4     81.4     92.6     86.1     92.4     78.5 |    83.0 |     82.0      79.2      77.7      74.0      70.0      69.4 
           Printing and support                |         323 |      1.91 |    83.2     80.4     91.7     82.6     86.5     72.6 |    75.7 |     71.7      70.9      70.7      69.5      66.9      64.8 
           Petroleum and coal products         |         324 |      5.24 |    86.0     68.8     88.2     82.4     90.5     83.8 |    91.4 |     89.0      79.3      91.4      88.7      87.9      87.7 
           Chemical                            |         325 |     11.97 |    78.2     67.9     85.0     79.9     81.2     69.4 |    78.7 |     75.8      70.1      74.1      71.6      68.9      68.7 
              Plastics material and resin      |      325211 |       .90 |    86.8     65.5     91.8     79.5    101.6     80.6 |    87.8 |     82.2      58.0      79.3      69.9      63.5           
              Synthetic rubber                 |      325212 |       .10 |    76.2     54.6     94.0     71.9     86.4     54.6 |    74.0 |     74.7      69.6      66.2      69.3      66.2      64.7 
              Artificial and synthetic fibers  |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    and filaments              |       32522 |       .10 |    81.2     63.1     94.1     75.7     90.9     57.3 |    83.2 |     67.1      70.0      66.8      57.2      54.6           
           Plastics and rubber products        |         326 |      2.91 |    83.5     71.8     89.8     76.4     91.8     74.6 |    82.9 |     80.2      78.2      76.4      74.3      71.2      68.8 
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     Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)           |   1133,5111 |      3.62 |    84.3     86.7     91.1     80.4     83.0     80.3 |    78.5 |     74.3      73.6      72.7      72.3      71.2      70.2 
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  Mining                                       |          21 |     11.11 |    87.6     79.6     86.3     83.6     88.7     84.8 |    90.2 |     91.6      82.6      89.0      91.2      90.2      88.9 
     Oil and gas extraction                    |         211 |      7.38 |    92.1     89.5     91.9     89.6     94.8     89.8 |    95.7 |     95.8      82.0      91.6      95.8      96.4      97.0 
     Mining (except oil and gas)               |         212 |      1.95 |    83.6     67.6     90.3     80.0     86.9     78.7 |    76.3 |     79.2      78.5      80.0      77.5      74.4      73.2 
        Coal mining                            |        2121 |       .67 |    86.0     76.3     92.5     79.5     87.0     78.8 |    85.1 |     88.2      86.8      88.4      87.2      89.3           
        Metal mining                           |        2122 |       .60 |    78.7     32.5     91.2     80.9     90.0     66.3 |    77.9 |     86.8      84.9      83.2      82.3      80.7      77.9 
        Stone and earth minerals               |        2123 |       .68 |    82.3     63.6     89.2     75.9     90.8     78.9 |    66.6 |     64.0      64.8      69.0      64.1      54.2      56.4 
     Support activities for mining             |         213 |      1.78 |    75.5     53.3     63.0     53.1     76.6     64.9 |    85.5 |     89.8      91.7      90.1      88.5      83.1      74.0 
  Utilities                                    |      2211,2 |      8.99 |    86.8     77.7     92.7     84.1     93.9     84.6 |    87.4 |     80.9      82.0      83.3      84.8      84.5      86.7 
     Electric                                  |        2211 |      7.32 |    88.2     78.5     94.1     87.1     96.6     87.3 |    87.9 |     81.5      83.0      83.4      84.9      84.6      86.4 
     Natural gas                               |        2212 |      1.67 |    80.0     72.9     86.5     67.4     87.6     70.4 |    83.8 |     77.4      76.7      82.3      83.6      83.3      87.5 
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 Special Aggregates                            |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Selected high-technology industries          |             |      4.53 |    78.0     75.1     81.7     75.3     85.6     55.9 |    79.4 |     77.2      75.3      72.2      67.0      62.2      59.9 
  Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech         |             |           |                                                      |         |
        industries                             |             |     75.37 |    79.7     68.0     85.8     77.2     84.5     72.8 |    79.1 |     76.1      73.1      73.6      72.1      70.1      68.4 
  Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech         |             |           |                                                      |         |
        and motor vehicles and pts.            |             |     69.94 |    79.9     69.4     85.5     79.1     84.2     72.6 |    79.7 |     77.4      74.1      74.8      73.3      71.5      70.6 
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 r  Revised.  p  Preliminary.