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[r] |   May[r]   June[r]   July[r]   Aug.[r]  Sept.[r]   Oct.[p] 
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  Total industry                                  |             |      100.00 |     80.9      84.9      73.5 |     70.4      68.7      69.9 |     68.5      68.3      69.0      70.0      70.5      70.7 
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  Manufacturing<1>                                |             |       79.68 |     79.6      84.5      71.4 |     66.7      65.4      66.9 |     65.3      65.1      66.0      67.0      67.6      67.6 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                        |       31-33 |       76.08 |     79.4      84.6      70.9 |     66.7      65.5      67.1 |     65.4      65.2      66.2      67.2      67.9      67.9 
                                                  |             |             |                              |                              |
        Durable manufacturing                     |             |       39.36 |     77.8      83.7      67.8 |     61.0      58.5      60.5 |     58.2      57.8      59.6      60.5      61.2      61.1 
           Wood products                          |         321 |        1.27 |     79.2      87.5      70.4 |     49.4      48.7      50.2 |     48.2      49.5      49.5      50.6      50.6      50.5 
           Nonmetallic mineral products           |         327 |        2.42 |     77.7      82.5      70.4 |     56.1      54.8      56.9 |     54.6      54.8      57.3      56.9      56.5      55.4 
           Primary metal                          |         331 |        2.69 |     80.5      94.7      68.0 |     48.0      45.0      53.0 |     44.3      45.7      50.5      53.5      54.9      56.9 
           Fabricated metal products              |         332 |        5.61 |     77.5      85.5      69.4 |     67.1      62.5      62.5 |     62.2      62.1      62.0      62.5      62.9      62.9 
           Machinery                              |         333 |        4.80 |     78.6      87.9      62.8 |     63.3      57.5      56.8 |     57.3      56.2      56.3      57.5      56.6      56.8 
           Computer and electronic products       |         334 |        7.11 |     78.3      84.4      58.8 |     65.1      63.5      63.4 |     63.4      62.7      63.5      63.4      63.2      62.7 
          Electrical equip., appliances,          |             |             |                              |                              |
              and components                      |         335 |        1.83 |     83.2      93.1      72.1 |     73.6      70.1      70.2 |     70.2      69.3      69.3      70.4      70.8      70.3 
           Motor vehicles and parts               |      3361-3 |        5.52 |     76.7      88.7      69.2 |     40.0      39.3      48.3 |     38.8      37.4      45.0      48.0      52.1      51.5 
          Aerospace and miscellaneous             |             |             |                              |                              |
              transportation equipment            |      3364-9 |        3.32 |     73.2      68.6      64.4 |     76.7      74.0      75.3 |     73.7      73.7      74.7      74.8      76.2      75.8 
           Furniture and related products         |         337 |        1.39 |     78.4      83.1      68.3 |     61.6      58.2      57.5 |     58.4      57.8      58.5      56.7      57.5      56.7 
           Miscellaneous                          |         339 |        3.40 |     76.5      81.3      71.0 |     67.2      66.9      67.9 |     66.8      66.6      67.2      68.4      68.2      68.3 
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        Nondurable manufacturing                  |             |       36.72 |     81.5      85.7      75.0 |     72.8      73.1      74.3 |     73.2      73.3      73.3      74.4      75.1      75.4 
           Food, beverage, and tobacco products   |       311,2 |       10.86 |     81.5      85.0      75.6 |     76.2      76.3      76.7 |     76.9      76.0      75.3      77.2      77.7      78.3 
           Textile and product mills              |       313,4 |         .96 |     81.6      91.7      68.7 |     60.1      59.1      59.5 |     58.8      59.1      58.4      59.9      60.2      61.3 
           Apparel and leather                    |       315,6 |         .56 |     79.5      88.1      63.6 |     67.9      65.5      65.8 |     66.8      63.3      65.1      66.1      66.3      66.1 
           Paper                                  |         322 |        2.41 |     87.6      92.7      78.8 |     70.3      70.5      73.6 |     70.9      72.4      72.7      74.4      73.8      74.9 
           Printing and support                   |         323 |        1.79 |     83.4      87.0      72.7 |     68.2      66.6      67.8 |     66.3      67.3      67.4      68.1      67.7      67.8 
           Petroleum and coal products            |         324 |        5.00 |     86.1      91.1      86.0 |     83.9      84.2      84.5 |     83.3      84.4      84.1      83.7      85.6      83.1 
           Chemical                               |         325 |       12.17 |     78.2      81.1      69.5 |     68.8      70.3      71.8 |     70.1      70.6      70.9      71.8      72.7      73.1 
           Plastics and rubber products           |         326 |        2.97 |     83.6      92.2      74.6 |     67.3      65.1      66.7 |     64.9      65.1      66.1      66.6      67.3      67.5 
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     Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)              |   1133,5111 |        3.61 |     84.2      83.0      79.8 |     66.9      63.1      62.4 |     62.9      63.0      62.4      63.0      62.0      61.3 
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  Mining                                          |          21 |       11.14 |     87.6      89.1      84.9 |     86.8      81.8      82.9 |     81.9      80.8      82.0      83.0      83.6      83.5 
  Utilities                                       |      2211,2 |        9.17 |     86.8      93.3      84.2 |     82.4      79.6      77.9 |     79.2      78.7      77.6      78.2      77.9      79.0 
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  Selected high-technology industries             |             |        4.24 |     78.2      86.5      56.5 |     64.1      62.7      62.0 |     62.2      61.8      62.6      61.9      61.5      61.4 
     Computers and peripheral equipment           |        3341 |         .98 |     78.1      87.3      66.8 |     68.9      63.5      59.3 |     63.4      61.8      60.6      59.3      58.1      57.0 
     Communications equipment                     |        3342 |        1.33 |     76.2      82.9      41.6 |     72.0      69.9      67.5 |     69.0      69.9      68.8      67.8      65.9      66.1 
     Semiconductors and related                   |             |             |                              |                              |
        electronic components                     |    334412-9 |        1.92 |     80.6      91.7      58.0 |     56.4      57.5      60.2 |     57.1      56.4      59.8      59.7      61.0      61.2 
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  Measures excluding selected high-technology     |             |             |                              |                              |
        industries                                |             |             |                              |                              |
  Total industry                                  |             |       95.76 |     81.0      84.9      74.7 |     70.7      68.9      70.2 |     68.8      68.6      69.3      70.3      70.9      71.0 
     Manufacturing<1>                             |             |       75.44 |     79.7      84.4      72.7 |     66.8      65.5      67.1 |     65.4      65.3      66.2      67.3      67.9      67.9 
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  Stage-of-process groups                         |             |             |                              |                              |
  Crude                                           |             |       15.83 |     86.6      89.9      81.7 |     80.9      79.6      81.7 |     79.8      79.5      80.5      81.5      83.0      83.1 
  Primary and semifinished                        |             |       46.62 |     82.0      87.9      74.3 |     68.4      66.2      66.9 |     65.9      65.8      66.4      67.1      67.3      67.4 
  Finished                                        |             |       37.55 |     77.7      80.3      70.0 |     68.4      67.1      68.5 |     67.0      66.7      67.4      68.7      69.4      69.5 
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 [r]  Revised.  [p]  Preliminary.
      <1>  See note on cover page
      Note.  See notes to table 2.