Table 7
 Capacity Utilization
 Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
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                                                  |             |             |     1972-     1994-     2001-|                              |
                                                  |             |      2008   |     2008         95        02|     2008      2009           |     2009                                                   
 Item                                             |    NAICS    |   proportion|     ave.       high       low|       Q4     Q1[r]     Q2[r] |  Feb.[r]   Mar.[r]   Apr.[r]    May[r]   June[r]   July[p] 
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  Total industry                                  |             |      100.00 |     80.9      84.9      73.5 |     74.2      70.4      68.5 |     70.6      69.5      69.0      68.3      68.1      68.5 
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  Manufacturing<1>                                |             |       79.68 |     79.6      84.5      71.4 |     70.9      66.7      65.1 |     67.1      65.9      65.6      65.0      64.7      65.4 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                        |       31-33 |       76.08 |     79.4      84.6      70.9 |     70.9      66.7      65.2 |     67.0      66.0      65.7      65.1      64.8      65.5 
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        Durable manufacturing                     |             |       39.36 |     77.8      83.7      67.8 |     67.1      61.0      58.4 |     61.2      59.8      59.3      58.1      57.7      59.1 
           Wood products                          |         321 |        1.27 |     79.2      87.5      70.4 |     54.8      49.4      48.6 |     49.9      48.7      48.3      48.3      49.2      49.7 
           Nonmetallic mineral products           |         327 |        2.42 |     77.7      82.5      70.4 |     63.0      56.1      54.2 |     56.4      54.4      54.7      54.1      53.9      55.2 
           Primary metal                          |         331 |        2.69 |     80.5      94.7      68.0 |     61.4      48.1      45.6 |     48.2      45.8      45.8      45.0      45.9      47.4 
           Fabricated metal products              |         332 |        5.61 |     77.5      85.5      69.4 |     74.1      67.1      62.5 |     67.5      64.4      63.3      62.3      61.9      61.9 
           Machinery                              |         333 |        4.80 |     78.6      87.9      62.8 |     70.3      63.2      57.6 |     64.0      60.2      58.9      57.4      56.6      56.4 
           Computer and electronic products       |         334 |        7.11 |     78.3      84.4      58.8 |     69.4      65.1      63.1 |     64.8      64.1      64.1      62.9      62.2      62.3 
          Electrical equip., appliances,          |             |             |                              |                              |
              and components                      |         335 |        1.83 |     83.2      93.1      72.1 |     78.4      73.5      70.2 |     73.7      71.3      70.9      70.2      69.4      68.9 
           Motor vehicles and parts               |      3361-3 |        5.52 |     76.7      88.7      69.2 |     53.6      40.0      39.1 |     40.9      41.7      41.4      38.3      37.6      45.3 
          Aerospace and miscellaneous             |             |             |                              |                              |
              transportation equipment            |      3364-9 |        3.32 |     73.2      68.6      64.4 |     72.0      76.7      74.3 |     76.5      75.9      74.9      73.9      73.9      74.6 
           Furniture and related products         |         337 |        1.39 |     78.4      83.1      68.3 |     65.1      61.6      58.3 |     61.3      60.4      58.5      58.5      57.7      58.2 
           Miscellaneous                          |         339 |        3.40 |     76.5      81.3      71.0 |     69.4      67.2      66.9 |     66.9      66.4      67.2      66.8      66.7      67.2 
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        Nondurable manufacturing                  |             |       36.72 |     81.5      85.7      75.0 |     74.8      72.8      72.5 |     73.2      72.7      72.5      72.6      72.4      72.5 
           Food, beverage, and tobacco products   |       311,2 |       10.86 |     81.5      85.0      75.6 |     77.1      76.2      76.3 |     76.5      76.5      75.9      76.9      76.1      75.9 
           Textile and product mills              |       313,4 |         .96 |     81.6      91.7      68.7 |     64.7      60.1      59.0 |     60.1      58.5      59.4      58.6      59.1      58.5 
           Apparel and leather                    |       315,6 |         .56 |     79.5      88.1      63.6 |     72.2      67.9      65.5 |     67.4      67.7      66.5      66.8      63.2      63.6 
           Paper                                  |         322 |        2.41 |     87.6      92.7      78.8 |     74.4      70.3      70.6 |     72.2      68.9      68.4      70.9      72.4      72.9 
           Printing and support                   |         323 |        1.79 |     83.4      87.0      72.7 |     72.7      68.2      66.7 |     67.8      67.3      66.4      66.4      67.4      66.9 
           Petroleum and coal products            |         324 |        5.00 |     86.1      91.1      86.0 |     85.7      83.9      83.8 |     84.6      84.8      84.9      83.3      83.2      82.8 
           Chemical                               |         325 |       12.17 |     78.2      81.1      69.5 |     70.0      68.8      68.6 |     69.3      68.9      69.2      68.5      68.2      68.5 
           Plastics and rubber products           |         326 |        2.97 |     83.6      92.2      74.6 |     72.7      67.3      65.2 |     67.4      65.6      65.3      64.9      65.3      66.1 
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     Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)              |   1133,5111 |        3.61 |     84.2      83.0      79.8 |     72.5      67.2      63.4 |     67.8      65.1      63.6      63.4      63.3      63.0 
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  Mining                                          |          21 |       11.14 |     87.6      89.1      84.9 |     89.6      86.8      81.8 |     87.1      84.9      82.7      81.7      81.0      81.7 
  Utilities                                       |      2211,2 |        9.17 |     86.8      93.3      84.2 |     83.6      82.4      79.9 |     81.1      80.8      80.9      79.2      79.7      77.6 
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  Selected high-technology industries             |             |        4.24 |     78.2      86.5      56.5 |     69.8      64.0      61.7 |     63.6      63.0      63.3      61.2      60.7      60.5 
     Computers and peripheral equipment           |        3341 |         .98 |     78.1      87.3      66.8 |     74.1      68.8      63.4 |     68.8      66.9      64.8      63.3      62.1      61.4 
     Communications equipment                     |        3342 |        1.33 |     76.2      82.9      41.6 |     74.3      71.5      66.9 |     71.3      68.7      68.3      65.7      66.8      65.8 
     Semiconductors and related                   |             |             |                              |                              |
        electronic components                     |    334412-9 |        1.92 |     80.6      91.7      58.0 |     64.5      56.5      57.7 |     55.6      57.4      59.4      57.5      56.2      56.8 
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  Measures excluding selected high-technology     |             |             |                              |                              |
        industries                                |             |             |                              |                              |
  Total industry                                  |             |       95.76 |     81.0      84.9      74.7 |     74.4      70.7      68.7 |     70.9      69.8      69.3      68.6      68.4      68.8 
     Manufacturing<1>                             |             |       75.44 |     79.7      84.4      72.7 |     71.0      66.8      65.3 |     67.2      66.1      65.7      65.2      64.9      65.7 
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  Stage-of-process groups                         |             |             |                              |                              |
  Crude                                           |             |       15.83 |     86.6      89.9      81.7 |     83.8      80.8      78.2 |     81.7      79.4      78.5      78.2      77.8      78.8 
  Primary and semifinished                        |             |       46.62 |     82.0      87.9      74.3 |     73.4      68.5      66.3 |     68.5      67.1      66.9      65.9      66.0      65.9 
  Finished                                        |             |       37.55 |     77.7      80.3      70.0 |     71.0      68.4      66.9 |     68.6      68.1      67.4      66.9      66.4      67.2 
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 [r]  Revised.  [p]  Preliminary.
      <1>  See note on cover page
      Note.  See notes to table 2.