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 |     2009                                                   
 Item                                          |    NAICS    | Proportion|    Ave.       Low     High      Low     High      Low|   Sept. |  Apr.[r]    May[r]   June[r]   July[r]   Aug.[r]  Sept.[p] 
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  Total industry                               |             |    100.00 |    80.9     70.9     85.1     78.7     84.9     73.5 |    74.5 |     69.2      68.5      68.3      69.0      69.9      70.5 
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  Stage-of-process groups                      |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Crude                                        |             |     15.83 |    86.6     78.1     88.3     84.7     89.9     81.7 |    78.7 |     79.5      79.7      79.4      80.3      81.4      82.5 
  Primary and semifinished                     |             |     46.62 |    82.0     68.1     86.5     77.9     87.9     74.3 |    74.9 |     67.0      65.9      65.8      66.3      67.0      67.3 
  Finished                                     |             |     37.55 |    77.7     71.0     83.0     77.2     80.3     70.0 |    72.2 |     67.6      67.0      66.7      67.5      68.6      69.3 
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 Industry Groups                               |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Manufacturing                                |             |     79.68 |    79.6     68.6     85.4     77.2     84.5     71.4 |    72.5 |     65.8      65.2      65.1      66.0      66.8      67.5 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                     |       31-33 |     76.08 |    79.4     67.9     85.4     77.1     84.6     70.9 |    72.4 |     65.9      65.4      65.2      66.1      67.0      67.8 
        Durable manufacturing                  |             |     39.36 |    77.8     63.0     84.6     73.6     83.7     67.8 |    70.7 |     59.4      58.2      57.9      59.6      60.4      61.2 
           Wood products                       |         321 |      1.27 |    79.2     59.4     87.1     72.6     87.5     70.4 |    60.2 |     48.3      48.3      49.2      48.9      49.3      49.6 
           Nonmetallic mineral products        |         327 |      2.42 |    77.7     63.9     83.8     71.7     82.5     70.4 |    65.7 |     55.1      54.7      54.7      57.0      56.4      56.1 
           Primary metal                       |         331 |      2.69 |    80.5     47.0     94.4     74.8     94.7     68.0 |    76.2 |     45.1      44.3      45.7      50.2      53.2      55.1 
              Iron and steel products          |      3311,2 |      1.35 |    81.9     38.0     97.6     70.9     97.6     68.9 |    78.3 |     32.3      34.0      39.3      46.8      51.9      55.9 
           Fabricated metal products           |         332 |      5.61 |    77.5     61.8     81.7     72.7     85.5     69.4 |    76.9 |     63.4      62.2      62.1      62.0      62.5      62.8 
           Machinery                           |         333 |      4.80 |    78.6     57.9     85.5     74.1     87.9     62.8 |    73.0 |     59.1      57.2      56.2      56.3      57.5      57.1 
           Computer and electronic products    |         334 |      7.11 |    78.3     77.9     82.2     76.8     84.4     58.8 |    74.6 |     64.5      63.4      63.0      64.0      64.0      64.0 
           Computer and peripheral equip.      |        3341 |       .98 |    78.1     67.1     79.6     70.1     87.3     66.8 |    78.6 |     65.2      63.3      61.8      60.7      59.5      58.3 
              Communications equipment         |        3342 |      1.33 |    76.2     84.6     85.3     76.9     82.9     41.6 |    74.2 |     70.6      68.8      70.3      70.3      70.1      68.9 
              Semiconductor and related        |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    electronic components      |    334412-9 |      1.92 |    80.6     77.2     83.1     78.0     91.7     58.0 |    80.8 |     59.2      57.5      57.1      60.6      60.2      60.7 
           Electrical equipment, appliances,   |             |           |                                                      |         |
                 and components                |         335 |      1.83 |    83.2     64.6     89.1     77.0     93.1     72.1 |    79.8 |     70.9      70.2      69.3      69.3      70.1      70.4 
           Transportation equipment            |         336 |      8.84 |    75.2     56.3     86.4     67.6     79.4     69.2 |    61.6 |     54.3      52.1      51.4      56.0      57.9      60.7 
              Motor vehicles and parts         |      3361-3 |      5.52 |    76.7     45.0     89.2     56.0     88.7     69.2 |    58.2 |     41.8      38.8      37.4      44.3      47.2      51.2 
                 Autos and light trucks        |       33611 |      2.34 |    77.1     39.7     94.8     53.7     89.1     74.9 |    55.4 |     35.4      30.9      28.7      40.1      45.2      52.1 
              Aerospace and miscellaneous      |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    transportation equipment   |      3364-9 |      3.32 |    73.2     67.6     87.7     80.8     68.6     64.4 |    67.3 |     74.7      73.7      73.8      75.0      75.1      76.2 
           Furniture and related products      |         337 |      1.39 |    78.4     65.7     82.2     67.6     83.1     68.3 |    69.2 |     58.5      58.4      57.8      58.5      56.7      56.5 
           Miscellaneous                       |         339 |      3.40 |    76.5     68.9     82.5     77.3     81.3     71.0 |    70.9 |     67.2      66.8      66.7      67.2      67.9      67.9 
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        Nondurable manufacturing               |             |     36.72 |    81.5     75.2     86.7     81.6     85.7     75.0 |    74.3 |     72.9      73.1      73.3      73.2      74.2      74.9 
           Food                                |         311 |      8.28 |    82.4     79.8     86.3     83.9     85.4     77.2 |    80.1 |     79.3      80.1      79.7      78.9      80.4      80.5 
           Beverage and tobacco products       |         312 |      2.58 |    78.7     77.9     87.1     74.2     86.0     64.5 |    69.9 |     64.7      66.3      63.8      63.3      64.9      66.4 
           Textile mills                       |         313 |       .52 |    81.3     72.5     91.4     77.7     93.6     66.0 |    66.3 |     57.8      57.7      58.3      56.3      56.7      57.0 
           Textile product mills               |         314 |       .45 |    81.7     70.4     90.7     75.4     88.7     72.7 |    70.5 |     61.2      59.6      59.5      60.0      61.2      62.8 
           Apparel                             |         315 |       .46 |    80.4     76.5     85.0     78.0     89.9     65.5 |    77.9 |     69.0      69.8      65.8      67.4      68.3      69.6 
           Leather and allied products         |         316 |       .10 |    74.4     73.1     81.7     72.6     80.4     51.2 |    69.0 |     55.0      53.1      52.4      54.8      55.6      56.3 
           Paper                               |         322 |      2.41 |    87.6     81.6     92.8     86.2     92.7     78.8 |    79.1 |     68.4      70.9      72.4      72.7      74.4      74.2 
           Printing and support                |         323 |      1.79 |    83.4     80.4     91.4     82.5     87.0     72.7 |    74.0 |     66.4      66.3      67.3      67.4      68.3      68.6 
           Petroleum and coal products         |         324 |      5.00 |    86.1     68.6     85.8     81.4     91.1     86.0 |    77.1 |     84.9      83.3      84.5      84.1      83.4      86.5 
           Chemical                            |         325 |     12.17 |    78.2     67.9     85.2     80.2     81.1     69.5 |    68.8 |     70.3      70.0      70.5      70.8      71.6      72.3 
              Plastics material and resin      |      325211 |       .86 |    86.5     66.2     92.8     79.5     98.5     80.3 |    59.2 |     83.9      82.5      81.5                               
              Synthetic rubber                 |      325212 |       .11 |    76.5     54.5     94.2     72.2     86.8     54.9 |    71.8 |     64.7      64.8      65.7      66.7      62.6      61.1 
              Artificial and synthetic fibers  |             |           |                                                      |         |
                    and filaments              |       32522 |       .10 |    81.3     63.1     94.1     75.9     91.3     55.7 |    72.7 |     64.0      60.8      63.1      64.8      63.7           
           Plastics and rubber products        |         326 |      2.97 |    83.6     71.9     89.5     76.9     92.2     74.6 |    76.4 |     65.3      64.9      65.1      66.1      66.6      66.7 
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     Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)           |   1133,5111 |      3.61 |    84.2     86.7     91.1     80.3     83.0     79.8 |    74.3 |     63.4      62.9      63.0      62.5      62.8      62.1 
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  Mining                                       |          21 |     11.14 |    87.6     79.7     86.5     83.8     89.1     84.9 |    83.1 |     82.7      81.8      80.8      81.9      82.9      83.6 
     Oil and gas extraction                    |         211 |      7.39 |    92.0     89.5     91.7     89.4     94.8     90.0 |    81.8 |     95.9      95.8      94.4      95.0      95.7      96.4 
     Mining (except oil and gas)               |         212 |      1.90 |    84.2     68.0     91.5     80.9     87.8     78.7 |    83.0 |     72.9      72.7      71.9      73.8      75.0      74.0 
        Coal mining                            |        2121 |       .71 |    86.2     76.3     92.5     79.5     87.3     78.7 |    91.3 |     81.8      78.9      79.8      84.0      84.2      82.7 
        Metal mining                           |        2122 |       .51 |    79.2     32.5     95.2     84.7     91.6     66.6 |    82.6 |     66.3      67.8      63.5      65.6      65.6      67.0 
        Stone and earth minerals               |        2123 |       .67 |    83.7     65.5     89.9     76.2     93.0     79.3 |    74.3 |     67.2      69.1      68.0      67.5      70.2      68.8 
     Support activities for mining             |         213 |      1.85 |    75.3     53.1     63.1     53.3     77.0     65.2 |    87.5 |     51.0      48.0      47.4      47.8      48.6      50.9 
  Utilities                                    |      2211,2 |      9.17 |    86.8     77.4     92.8     84.2     93.3     84.2 |    81.2 |     80.9      79.2      78.7      77.4      78.7      78.1 
     Electric                                  |        2211 |      7.48 |    88.3     78.0     94.3     87.7     95.8     86.7 |    82.0 |     81.3      80.0      78.8      77.2      78.8      78.0 
     Natural gas                               |        2212 |      1.69 |    80.1     72.9     86.4     67.5     87.4     71.1 |    77.5 |     78.6      74.7      77.9      78.5      78.2      78.0 
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 Special Aggregates                            |             |           |                                                      |         |
  Selected high-technology industries          |             |      4.24 |    78.2     75.2     81.7     75.4     86.5     56.5 |    78.0 |     64.1      62.3      62.3      63.5      63.0      62.5 
  Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech         |             |           |                                                      |         |
        industries                             |             |     75.44 |    79.7     68.1     85.9     77.3     84.4     72.7 |    72.2 |     65.9      65.4      65.3      66.1      67.0      67.8 
  Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech         |             |           |                                                      |         |
        and motor vehicles and pts.            |             |     69.92 |    79.9     69.5     85.6     79.2     84.1     72.6 |    73.3 |     67.8      67.5      67.4      67.8      68.6      69.0 
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 r  Revised.  p  Preliminary.