Table 7
 Capacity Utilization
 Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
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                                                  |             |             |     1972-     1994-     2001-|                              |
                                                  |             |      2008   |     2008         95        02|     2009                     |     2009                                                   
 Item                                             |    NAICS    |   proportion|     ave.       high       low|       Q1     Q2[r]     Q3[p] |  Apr.[r]    May[r]   June[r]   July[r]   Aug.[r]  Sept.[p] 
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  Total industry                                  |             |      100.00 |     80.9      84.9      73.5 |     70.4      68.7      69.8 |     69.2      68.5      68.3      69.0      69.9      70.5 
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  Manufacturing<1>                                |             |       79.68 |     79.6      84.5      71.4 |     66.7      65.4      66.8 |     65.8      65.2      65.1      66.0      66.8      67.5 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                        |       31-33 |       76.08 |     79.4      84.6      70.9 |     66.7      65.5      67.0 |     65.9      65.4      65.2      66.1      67.0      67.8 
                                                  |             |             |                              |                              |
        Durable manufacturing                     |             |       39.36 |     77.8      83.7      67.8 |     61.0      58.5      60.4 |     59.4      58.2      57.9      59.6      60.4      61.2 
           Wood products                          |         321 |        1.27 |     79.2      87.5      70.4 |     49.4      48.6      49.3 |     48.3      48.3      49.2      48.9      49.3      49.6 
           Nonmetallic mineral products           |         327 |        2.42 |     77.7      82.5      70.4 |     56.1      54.8      56.5 |     55.1      54.7      54.7      57.0      56.4      56.1 
           Primary metal                          |         331 |        2.69 |     80.5      94.7      68.0 |     48.0      45.0      52.8 |     45.1      44.3      45.7      50.2      53.2      55.1 
           Fabricated metal products              |         332 |        5.61 |     77.5      85.5      69.4 |     67.1      62.5      62.5 |     63.4      62.2      62.1      62.0      62.5      62.8 
           Machinery                              |         333 |        4.80 |     78.6      87.9      62.8 |     63.3      57.5      57.0 |     59.1      57.2      56.2      56.3      57.5      57.1 
           Computer and electronic products       |         334 |        7.11 |     78.3      84.4      58.8 |     65.1      63.7      64.0 |     64.5      63.4      63.0      64.0      64.0      64.0 
          Electrical equip., appliances,          |             |             |                              |                              |
              and components                      |         335 |        1.83 |     83.2      93.1      72.1 |     73.6      70.1      70.0 |     70.9      70.2      69.3      69.3      70.1      70.4 
           Motor vehicles and parts               |      3361-3 |        5.52 |     76.7      88.7      69.2 |     40.0      39.3      47.6 |     41.8      38.8      37.4      44.3      47.2      51.2 
          Aerospace and miscellaneous             |             |             |                              |                              |
              transportation equipment            |      3364-9 |        3.32 |     73.2      68.6      64.4 |     76.7      74.1      75.4 |     74.7      73.7      73.8      75.0      75.1      76.2 
           Furniture and related products         |         337 |        1.39 |     78.4      83.1      68.3 |     61.6      58.2      57.2 |     58.5      58.4      57.8      58.5      56.7      56.5 
           Miscellaneous                          |         339 |        3.40 |     76.5      81.3      71.0 |     67.2      66.9      67.6 |     67.2      66.8      66.7      67.2      67.9      67.9 
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        Nondurable manufacturing                  |             |       36.72 |     81.5      85.7      75.0 |     72.8      73.1      74.1 |     72.9      73.1      73.3      73.2      74.2      74.9 
           Food, beverage, and tobacco products   |       311,2 |       10.86 |     81.5      85.0      75.6 |     76.2      76.3      76.4 |     75.9      76.9      76.0      75.3      76.8      77.2 
           Textile and product mills              |       313,4 |         .96 |     81.6      91.7      68.7 |     60.1      59.0      58.9 |     59.4      58.6      58.9      58.1      58.8      59.8 
           Apparel and leather                    |       315,6 |         .56 |     79.5      88.1      63.6 |     67.9      65.6      66.1 |     66.5      66.8      63.4      65.2      66.0      67.2 
           Paper                                  |         322 |        2.41 |     87.6      92.7      78.8 |     70.3      70.5      73.8 |     68.4      70.9      72.4      72.7      74.4      74.2 
           Printing and support                   |         323 |        1.79 |     83.4      87.0      72.7 |     68.2      66.7      68.1 |     66.4      66.3      67.3      67.4      68.3      68.6 
           Petroleum and coal products            |         324 |        5.00 |     86.1      91.1      86.0 |     83.9      84.2      84.7 |     84.9      83.3      84.5      84.1      83.4      86.5 
           Chemical                               |         325 |       12.17 |     78.2      81.1      69.5 |     68.8      70.3      71.6 |     70.3      70.0      70.5      70.8      71.6      72.3 
           Plastics and rubber products           |         326 |        2.97 |     83.6      92.2      74.6 |     67.3      65.1      66.5 |     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      83.0      79.8 |     66.9      63.1      62.5 |     63.4      62.9      63.0      62.5      62.8      62.1 
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  Mining                                          |          21 |       11.14 |     87.6      89.1      84.9 |     86.8      81.8      82.8 |     82.7      81.8      80.8      81.9      82.9      83.6 
  Utilities                                       |      2211,2 |        9.17 |     86.8      93.3      84.2 |     82.4      79.6      78.1 |     80.9      79.2      78.7      77.4      78.7      78.1 
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  Selected high-technology industries             |             |        4.24 |     78.2      86.5      56.5 |     64.1      62.9      63.0 |     64.1      62.3      62.3      63.5      63.0      62.5 
     Computers and peripheral equipment           |        3341 |         .98 |     78.1      87.3      66.8 |     68.9      63.5      59.5 |     65.2      63.3      61.8      60.7      59.5      58.3 
     Communications equipment                     |        3342 |         .64 |     76.2      82.9      41.6 |     72.0      69.9      69.8 |     70.6      68.8      70.3      70.3      70.1      68.9 
     Semiconductors and related                   |             |             |                              |                              |
        electronic components                     |    334412-9 |        1.92 |     80.6      91.7      58.0 |     56.4      57.9      60.5 |     59.2      57.5      57.1      60.6      60.2      60.7 
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  Measures excluding selected high-technology     |             |             |                              |                              |
        industries                                |             |             |                              |                              |
  Total industry                                  |             |       95.76 |     81.0      84.9      74.7 |     70.7      68.9      70.0 |     69.4      68.8      68.6      69.2      70.2      70.8 
     Manufacturing<1>                             |             |       75.44 |     79.7      84.4      72.7 |     66.8      65.5      67.0 |     65.9      65.4      65.3      66.1      67.0      67.8 
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  Stage-of-process groups                         |             |             |                              |                              |
  Crude                                           |             |       15.83 |     86.6      89.9      81.7 |     80.9      79.5      81.4 |     79.5      79.7      79.4      80.3      81.4      82.5 
  Primary and semifinished                        |             |       46.62 |     82.0      87.9      74.3 |     68.4      66.2      66.9 |     67.0      65.9      65.8      66.3      67.0      67.3 
  Finished                                        |             |       37.55 |     77.7      80.3      70.0 |     68.4      67.1      68.4 |     67.6      67.0      66.7      67.5      68.6      69.3 
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 [r]  Revised.  [p]  Preliminary.
      <1>  See note on cover page
      Note.  See notes to table 2.