Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

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Release Date: March 30, 2012

Table 8 Capacity utilization rates: 2007-11

Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
  NAICS 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Q2 Q4 Q2 Q4 Q2 Q4 Q2 Q4 Q2 Q4
Total industry   80.6 80.4 79.2 73.2 67.2 69.5 73.3 75.4 76.3 77.7
     
Manufacturing[1]   78.9 78.2 76.2 69.7 64.1 67.0 71.0 73.1 74.4 76.0
Manufacturing (NAICS) 31-33 79.0 78.3 76.1 69.4 63.8 66.8 71.1 73.4 74.9 76.5
     
Durable manufacturing   78.2 78.3 76.8 67.8 59.0 62.5 68.1 70.9 72.8 75.0
Wood products 321 74.9 72.9 68.9 59.8 52.4 55.0 60.1 60.6 62.3 64.1
Nonmetallic mineral products 327 68.8 65.7 61.1 52.5 44.9 44.9 49.7 52.2 53.8 54.7
Primary metal 331 80.1 82.6 82.0 63.4 49.2 61.0 69.4 70.1 72.1 75.5
Fabricated metal products 332 84.8 85.0 81.9 74.2 61.4 62.8 69.3 74.4 78.1 80.0
Machinery 333 82.6 83.7 81.9 76.0 62.0 62.7 70.9 75.4 79.0 81.0
Computer and electronic products 334 76.7 74.4 78.3 72.7 69.2 70.3 76.3 79.7 80.4 77.8
Selected high-technology industries   78.4 75.0 82.2 75.1 71.3 72.7 78.9 81.8 81.8 75.1
Computers and peripheral equipment 3341 75.2 76.3 78.8 72.9 81.2 88.2 88.6 88.7 88.4 81.4
Communications equipment 3342 83.6 72.2 85.9 85.7 78.6 78.7 81.2 80.0 74.9 76.6
Semiconductors and related
electronic components
334412-9 76.6 75.0 82.5 72.6 64.8 66.4 76.3 81.1 82.5 73.6
Electrical equip., appliances,
and components
335 87.3 88.7 88.1 79.5 67.4 67.4 73.8 78.2 78.1 79.9
Motor vehicles and parts 3361-3 73.8 69.9 60.8 49.2 37.4 52.5 58.3 60.6 62.6 69.3
Aerospace and miscellaneous
transportation equipment
3364-9 81.3 89.6 89.1 72.7 72.6 70.3 71.0 70.6 72.0 76.7
Furniture and related products 337 75.4 76.2 74.4 66.9 58.8 58.2 62.4 64.0 66.9 67.6
Miscellaneous 339 73.3 73.2 74.6 72.9 68.4 71.4 75.0 76.9 77.4 77.0
     
Nondurable manufacturing   79.9 78.3 75.3 71.2 69.6 72.1 74.8 76.5 77.3 78.2
Food, beverage, and tobacco products 311,2 78.9 77.4 76.5 76.4 76.4 76.1 76.0 77.4 78.2 79.1
Textile and product mills 313,4 73.1 70.7 68.7 62.5 55.2 59.6 63.9 65.6 67.0 67.8
Apparel and leather 315,6 74.8 75.3 76.8 71.4 61.4 60.9 65.3 68.8 69.8 69.0
Paper 322 83.8 84.3 83.6 75.1 73.9 79.0 81.9 82.2 81.8 81.5
Printing and support 323 78.0 76.6 72.7 67.1 60.7 62.1 65.7 65.9 65.4 63.9
Petroleum and coal products 324 88.6 85.8 83.3 80.3 78.8 77.1 80.8 83.5 83.6 86.3
Chemical 325 78.4 76.9 72.6 67.0 66.7 71.3 75.0 76.6 77.0 77.6
Plastics and rubber products 326 79.6 77.7 71.7 64.9 58.3 62.6 68.5 71.8 75.9 77.5
     
Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) 1133,5111 77.6 76.6 77.6 76.2 68.8 69.4 67.7 65.9 62.6 65.3
     
Mining 21 89.1 90.2 91.3 87.5 79.1 79.1 83.0 85.9 86.6 89.5
Utilities 2211,2 85.5 85.3 84.9 83.1 80.5 81.3 80.5 79.8 77.5 75.6

[1] See footnote 2 to table 3. Return to table


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Last update: March 30, 2012