Table 6
Capacity Utilization
Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
| | 1967- 1988- 1990- 1994-| |
| 2000 | 2000 89 91 95| 2000 2001 | 2000 2001
Item |Proportion<1>| Ave. High Low High| Q2 Q3 Q4 r Q1 | Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar.
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Total industry | 100.00 | 82.1 85.4 78.1 84.4 | 82.6 82.4 81.3 79.5 | 80.6 79.9 79.3 79.4
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Manufacturing | 88.70 | 81.1 85.7 76.6 84.0 | 81.9 81.7 80.3 78.3 | 79.3 78.6 78.2 78.1
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Durable | 49.19 | 79.6 84.6 73.1 83.6 | 82.7 82.5 80.7 77.6 | 79.5 78.0 77.2 77.5
Lumber and products 24 | 1.89 | 82.6 93.6 75.5 89.4 | 81.6 79.1 76.3 72.9 | 75.0 72.4 73.4 73.0
Furniture and fixtures 25 | 1.65 | 81.3 86.6 72.5 83.9 | 79.6 80.1 80.0 78.4 | 79.4 79.0 78.3 77.8
Stone, clay, and glass products 32 | 2.31 | 78.9 83.5 69.7 86.8 | 84.5 85.5 84.0 83.0 | 82.3 83.9 82.5 82.4
Primary metals 33 | 3.13 | 81.6 92.7 73.7 95.4 | 89.4 87.0 83.1 80.1 | 82.2 80.4 79.9 79.9
Fabricated metals 34 | 5.85 | 77.9 82.0 71.9 85.2 | 77.6 77.1 75.7 73.8 | 74.6 74.9 73.3 73.2
Industrial machinery and equipment 35 | 9.34 | 81.4 85.4 72.3 87.3 | 81.9 82.7 82.5 80.0 | 82.1 80.9 79.9 79.2
Electrical machinery 36 | 9.26 | 81.4 84.0 75.0 90.1 | 90.4 90.9 87.1 81.4 | 85.5 83.2 81.0 80.0
Motor vehicles and parts 371 | 5.74 | 77.0 89.1 55.9 85.9 | 84.5 81.7 76.0 68.8 | 72.1 65.7 68.0 72.7
Aerospace and miscellaneous | | | |
transportation equipment 372,6-9 | 4.01 | 75.2 87.3 60.7 85.3 | 71.1 71.7 72.8 72.4 | 73.3 72.4 71.8 72.9
Instruments 38 | 4.69 | 81.6 81.4 74.5 82.6 | 79.6 80.3 80.5 80.5 | 80.0 81.1 80.1 80.2
Miscellaneous 39 | 1.32 | 75.9 79.0 71.7 81.9 | 81.3 81.4 80.5 79.3 | 79.9 80.5 79.2 78.2
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Nondurable | 39.52 | 83.2 87.3 79.7 85.6 | 80.9 80.5 79.7 79.0 | 78.9 79.2 79.1 78.7
Food and tobacco products 20,21 | 10.54 | 83.3 85.9 79.1 85.8 | 81.2 81.6 81.2 81.4 | 81.1 81.3 81.6 81.2
Textile mill products 22 | 1.26 | 85.5 90.4 77.7 92.6 | 83.4 80.9 77.1 75.6 | 77.1 75.5 76.0 75.1
Apparel products 23 | 1.64 | 80.6 85.1 70.7 85.9 | 71.8 70.5 69.4 68.7 | 69.0 69.9 68.0 68.3
Paper and products 26 | 3.18 | 88.7 93.5 83.1 91.6 | 85.9 82.9 83.3 80.9 | 81.7 80.7 81.3 80.9
Printing and publishing 27 | 6.59 | 85.4 91.7 77.8 87.7 | 81.0 81.8 82.0 81.6 | 80.9 82.3 81.6 80.9
Chemicals and products 28 | 10.56 | 79.3 86.2 74.2 84.2 | 77.2 76.4 75.5 74.5 | 74.5 74.6 74.5 74.5
Petroleum products 29 | 1.97 | 87.3 88.5 85.1 97.1 | 96.0 95.3 94.3 93.8 | 93.2 93.3 94.1 94.1
Rubber and plastics products 30 | 3.58 | 84.7 89.6 77.4 91.3 | 84.6 83.7 80.9 79.2 | 79.5 80.1 79.0 78.5
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Mining | 5.96 | 87.4 88.0 82.0 91.0 | 85.8 86.6 86.6 87.7 | 86.1 87.1 87.5 88.4
Utilities | 5.33 | 87.6 92.6 83.0 93.5 | 91.2 90.7 92.0 90.8 | 95.7 92.0 89.8 90.5
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Selected high-technology industries | 9.18 | 80.4 81.9 72.4 87.9 | 88.0 89.1 85.1 78.8 | 83.1 80.5 78.6 77.3
Computers and office equipment 357 | 2.79 | 81.2 86.9 66.9 91.4 | 76.4 79.1 78.2 75.2 | 76.9 76.1 75.3 74.3
Communications equipment 366 | 2.03 | 80.4 84.8 73.4 87.8 | 80.8 84.9 87.3 86.6 | 87.1 87.4 86.4 86.0
Semiconductors and related | | | |
electronic components 3672-9 | 4.36 | 80.0 81.1 72.6 90.8 | 98.5 97.0 87.9 77.2 | 84.7 79.8 76.9 75.0
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Measures excluding selected high-technology | | | |
industries | | | |
Total industry | 90.82 | 82.2 85.7 78.4 84.2 | 82.0 81.5 80.6 79.3 | 80.0 79.5 79.1 79.3
Manufacturing | 79.52 | 81.2 86.1 76.8 83.8 | 81.1 80.6 79.5 77.9 | 78.5 78.1 77.8 77.9
Industrial machinery 351-6,8,9 | 6.54 | 81.3 85.5 72.9 88.1 | 84.1 84.1 84.2 81.9 | 84.2 82.8 81.8 81.2
Electrical machinery 361-5,9,71 | 2.88 | 83.4 87.5 74.3 93.2 | 84.2 83.9 82.9 82.0 | 82.9 83.0 81.5 81.5
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Primary processing | 33.89 | 82.2 88.3 76.7 88.7 | 86.4 85.4 82.7 78.9 | 80.9 79.3 78.8 78.6
Advanced processing | 54.81 | 80.6 84.2 76.6 82.3 | 79.8 80.1 79.5 78.6 | 79.0 78.9 78.4 78.5
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Note. See notes to table 2.