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Release Date: March 23, 2018
Table 9 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: SUMMARY
Seasonally adjusted
Industrial production 2012=100 Percent change
2017 2018 2017 2018 Feb. '17 to
Feb. '18
Sept.[r] Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Sept.[r] Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r]
       
Total index 103.2 104.8 105.3 105.7 105.5 106.5 .0 1.6 .5 .4 -.2 .9 4.3
Previous estimates 104.9 106.6 106.9 107.4 107.1 108.2 .3 1.6 .3 .5 -.3 1.1 4.4
       
Major market groups      
Final Products 100.3 101.3 101.1 101.4 101.8 102.2 .2 1.0 -.2 .3 .4 .4 3.8
Consumer goods 103.5 104.8 104.5 104.9 105.4 105.5 .1 1.2 -.3 .4 .4 .1 3.4
Business equipment 98.2 98.9 99.1 98.9 99.1 99.8 1.0 .7 .2 -.2 .2 .7 4.9
Nonindustrial supplies 104.8 105.5 106.0 106.8 105.6 106.5 .4 .7 .4 .8 -1.1 .8 1.9
Construction 111.0 111.5 112.0 113.0 110.9 113.5 1.7 .4 .4 .9 -1.8 2.3 2.2
Materials 104.7 107.2 108.3 108.8 108.3 109.9 -.4 2.3 1.1 .4 -.4 1.4 5.4
       
Major industry groups      
Manufacturing (see note below) 101.3 102.7 102.9 102.9 102.7 104.1 -.1 1.4 .2 .0 -.2 1.3 2.4
Previous estimates 103.2 104.6 104.8 104.8 104.6 105.9 .2 1.3 .2 .1 -.2 1.2 2.5
       
Mining 110.1 111.6 113.8 114.7 113.2 117.2 1.3 1.4 1.9 .8 -1.3 3.5 10.1
Utilities 99.8 102.9 103.3 106.1 107.2 102.0 -.8 3.2 .4 2.7 1.1 -4.9 10.6
Capacity utilization Percent of capacity Capacity
growth
Average
1972-
2017
1988-
89
high
1990-
91
low
1994-
95
high
2008-
09
low
 
2017
Feb.
   
2017 2018 Feb. '17 to
Feb. '18
Sept.[r] Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r]
       
Total industry 79.8 85.2 78.8 85.0 66.7 75.1 75.7 76.8 77.0 77.3 77.0 77.7 .9
Previous estimates 79.8 85.2 78.8 85.0 66.7 75.8 76.1 77.3 77.5 77.8 77.4 78.1 1.3
       
Manufacturing (see note below) 78.3 85.6 77.3 84.6 63.7 74.7 74.2 75.2 75.3 75.2 75.0 75.9 .8
Previous estimates 78.3 85.6 77.3 84.6 63.7 75.6 75.3 76.2 76.3 76.3 76.0 76.9 .8
Mining 87.0 86.3 84.3 88.6 78.2 82.0 85.3 86.4 87.9 88.3 86.9 89.7 .6
Utilities 85.3 92.9 84.4 92.9 78.3 70.2 75.2 77.4 77.6 79.6 80.3 76.2 1.9
       
Stage-of-process groups      
Crude 86.0 87.8 84.7 90.0 76.4 81.5 82.5 85.4 86.6 86.8 85.6 87.7 .6
Primary and semifinished 80.4 86.5 78.1 87.7 63.8 73.9 74.4 75.5 76.0 76.5 76.3 76.0 .8
Finished 76.9 83.4 77.3 80.7 66.6 74.0 74.3 74.6 74.2 74.1 74.3 75.2 1.2

r Revised.

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 of its industrial output data from the SIC system to NAICS.


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