Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

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Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: Summary

Industrial production	2007=100						Percent change
	2010		2011				2010		2011				Apr. '10 to Apr. '11
	Nov.[r]	Dec.[r]	Jan.[r]	Feb.[r]	Mar.[r]	Apr.[p]	Nov.[r]	Dec.[r]	Jan.[r]	Feb.[r]	Mar.[r]	Apr.[p]
Total index	91.4	92.6	92.7	92.4	93.1	93.1	.3	1.3	.1	-.3	.7	.0	5.0
Previous estimates	91.4	92.6	92.8	92.8	93.6		.3	1.3	.1	.1	.8
Major market groups
Final Products	92.7	93.8	94.5	94.4	94.8	94.3	-.2	1.2	.7	-.1	.5	-.5	5.2
Consumer goods	92.0	93.3	93.6	93.1	93.9	93.2	-.3	1.4	.3	-.5	.9	-.7	3.9
Business equipment	91.3	92.3	94.0	94.8	94.4	94.0	.2	1.2	1.8	.9	-.5	-.4	9.9
Nonindustrial supplies	83.0	83.3	83.2	82.9	83.5	83.9	1.0	.4	-.1	-.4	.7	.4	2.7
Construction	75.0	74.4	74.8	74.3	75.2	75.1	.9	-.7	.5	-.6	1.2	-.1	3.0
Materials	93.2	94.7	94.3	94.0	94.9	95.2	.5	1.6	-.4	-.3	.9	.3	5.4
Major industry groups
Manufacturing (see note below)	87.9	88.8	89.4	89.5	90.1	89.7	.2	1.1	.6	.2	.6	-.4	4.6
Previous estimates	87.9	88.9	89.6	90.1	90.7		.2	1.1	.8	.6	.7
Mining	104.5	104.5	103.3	102.3	103.8	104.6	-.2	.0	-1.2	-.9	1.4	.8	4.1
Utilities	100.6	105.1	103.4	101.0	101.7	103.4	1.8	4.5	-1.7	-2.3	.7	1.7	8.0

Capacity utilization	Percent of capacity												Capacity growth
	Average 1972- 2010	1988- 89 high	1990- 91 low	1994- 95 high	2008- 09 low	2010 Apr.
							2010		2011				Apr. '10 to Apr. '11
							Nov.[r]	Dec.[r]	Jan.[r]	Feb.[r]	Mar.[r]	Apr.[p]
Total industry	80.4	85.2	78.8	85.1	67.3	73.2	75.8	76.8	76.8	76.5	77.0	76.9	-.1
Previous estimates							75.8	76.8	76.9	76.9	77.4
Manufacturing (see note below)	79.0	85.5	77.3	84.7	64.4	70.7	73.1	73.9	74.3	74.4	74.8	74.4	-.6
Previous estimates							73.1	73.9	74.5	74.9	75.3
Mining	87.4	86.3	83.8	88.5	79.0	85.5	88.9	88.8	87.6	86.6	87.6	88.2	1.0
Utilities	86.6	92.9	84.3	93.3	79.2	78.3	80.4	83.7	82.1	80.0	80.4	81.6	3.6
Stage-of-process groups
Crude	86.4	87.7	84.3	89.6	77.6	84.9	86.8	87.4	86.8	85.9	86.6	87.0	.9
Primary and semifinished	81.3	86.5	77.9	87.9	64.9	70.2	73.0	74.5	74.3	73.7	74.4	74.5	-.8
Finished	77.3	83.3	77.4	80.7	66.8	72.2	74.5	75.0	75.6	76.0	76.1	75.6	.7

r Revised. p Preliminary.
Note. The statistics in this release cover output, capacity, and capacity utilization in the
U.S. industrial sector, which is defined by the Federal Reserve to comprise manufacturing,
mining, and electric and gas utilities. Mining is defined as all industries in sector 21 of the
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS); electric and gas utilities are those in
NAICS sectors 2211 and 2212. Manufacturing comprises NAICS manufacturing industries (sector 31-33)
plus the logging industry and the newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishing industries.
Logging and publishing are classified elsewhere in NAICS (under agriculture and information
respectively), but historically they were considered to be manufacturing and were included in
the industrial sector under the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. In December 2002
the Federal Reserve reclassified all its industrial output data from the SIC system to NAICS.

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