Table 6
Capacity Utilization
Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
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| | 1967- 1988- 1990- 1994-| |
| 2000 | 2000 89 91 95| 2000 2001 | 2001
Item | Proportion| Ave. High Low High| Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 r | July Aug. Sept. Oct.
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Total industry | 100.00 | 82.1 85.4 78.1 84.4 | 81.3 79.2 77.8 76.4 | 77.0 76.6 75.7 74.8
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Manufacturing | 88.70 | 81.1 85.7 76.6 84.0 | 80.3 77.9 76.4 74.9 | 75.6 75.0 74.1 73.1
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Durable | 49.19 | 79.6 84.6 73.1 83.6 | 80.7 77.2 75.3 73.1 | 74.2 73.4 71.9 70.3
Lumber and products 24 | 1.89 | 82.6 93.6 75.5 89.4 | 76.3 73.7 75.8 77.0 | 76.7 76.9 77.4 75.6
Furniture and fixtures 25 | 1.65 | 81.3 86.6 72.5 83.9 | 80.0 78.2 76.9 74.2 | 75.6 74.2 72.9 71.2
Stone, clay, and glass products 32 | 2.31 | 78.9 83.5 69.7 86.8 | 84.0 83.4 82.1 81.0 | 81.6 80.5 80.7 80.1
Primary metals 33 | 3.13 | 81.6 92.7 73.7 95.4 | 83.1 78.8 79.6 78.8 | 80.1 79.1 77.2 73.8
Fabricated metals 34 | 5.85 | 77.9 82.0 71.9 85.2 | 75.7 73.4 71.5 70.3 | 71.0 70.8 69.3 68.1
Industrial machinery and equipment 35 | 9.34 | 81.4 85.4 72.3 87.3 | 82.5 79.5 75.3 71.5 | 72.6 72.0 69.8 68.8
Electrical machinery 36 | 9.26 | 81.4 84.0 75.0 90.1 | 87.1 80.0 72.8 68.0 | 68.9 68.3 66.8 65.5
Motor vehicles and parts 371 | 5.74 | 77.0 89.1 55.9 85.9 | 76.0 69.9 75.4 76.5 | 79.1 76.8 73.6 70.4
Aerospace and miscellaneous | | | |
transportation equipment 372,6-9 | 4.01 | 75.2 87.3 60.7 85.3 | 72.8 72.3 71.7 69.7 | 70.4 69.6 69.0 67.8
Instruments 38 | 4.69 | 81.6 81.4 74.5 82.6 | 80.5 80.3 78.9 78.1 | 78.2 78.1 77.9 76.9
Miscellaneous 39 | 1.32 | 75.9 79.0 71.7 81.9 | 80.5 79.2 78.3 76.5 | 78.8 75.8 74.8 74.2
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Nondurable | 39.52 | 83.2 87.3 79.7 85.6 | 79.7 78.5 77.6 76.9 | 77.2 76.9 76.8 76.5
Food and tobacco products 20,21 | 10.54 | 83.3 85.9 79.1 85.8 | 81.2 81.2 80.9 80.3 | 80.8 80.2 80.0 80.0
Textile mill products 22 | 1.26 | 85.5 90.4 77.7 92.6 | 77.1 76.0 73.3 71.1 | 70.0 71.4 71.9 71.4
Apparel products 23 | 1.64 | 80.6 85.1 70.7 85.9 | 69.4 69.6 68.5 65.6 | 67.9 65.1 63.7 62.6
Paper and products 26 | 3.18 | 88.7 93.5 83.1 91.6 | 83.3 80.1 80.2 78.9 | 79.2 78.3 79.2 78.1
Printing and publishing 27 | 6.59 | 85.4 91.7 77.8 87.7 | 82.0 79.9 77.7 76.0 | 76.3 76.3 75.3 74.9
Chemicals and products 28 | 10.56 | 79.3 86.2 74.2 84.2 | 75.5 73.8 72.7 73.4 | 73.0 73.5 73.9 73.4
Petroleum products 29 | 1.97 | 87.3 88.5 85.1 97.1 | 94.3 93.8 94.5 92.7 | 93.7 92.6 91.7 94.4
Rubber and plastics products 30 | 3.58 | 84.7 89.6 77.4 91.3 | 80.9 79.3 77.8 77.2 | 77.7 77.2 76.8 75.9
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Mining | 5.96 | 87.4 88.0 82.0 91.0 | 86.6 88.2 90.1 89.5 | 89.3 89.7 89.7 88.6
Utilities | 5.33 | 87.6 92.6 83.0 93.5 | 92.0 90.4 87.7 85.9 | 85.1 86.9 85.7 86.0
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Selected high-technology industries | 9.18 | 80.4 81.9 72.4 87.9 | 85.1 77.3 69.3 63.6 | 64.9 63.8 62.1 61.1
Computers and office equipment 357 | 2.79 | 81.2 86.9 66.9 91.4 | 78.2 73.7 68.6 64.0 | 65.4 64.4 62.2 61.3
Communications equipment 366 | 2.03 | 80.4 84.8 73.4 87.8 | 87.3 83.2 75.5 66.7 | 68.9 67.1 64.2 61.9
Semiconductors and related | | | |
electronic components 3672-9 | 4.36 | 80.0 81.1 72.6 90.8 | 87.9 76.4 66.3 61.1 | 62.0 61.1 60.2 59.6
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Measures excluding selected high-technology | | | |
industries | | | |
Total industry | 90.82 | 82.2 85.7 78.4 84.2 | 80.6 79.1 78.4 77.5 | 78.0 77.7 76.9 76.1
Manufacturing | 79.52 | 81.2 86.1 76.8 83.8 | 79.5 77.6 76.9 76.0 | 76.6 76.1 75.3 74.4
Industrial machinery 351-6,8,9 | 6.54 | 81.3 85.5 72.9 88.1 | 84.2 81.8 77.8 74.1 | 75.2 74.7 72.4 71.4
Electrical machinery 361-5,9,71 | 2.88 | 83.4 87.5 74.3 93.2 | 82.9 81.0 79.4 78.4 | 78.2 79.2 77.8 76.6
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Primary processing | 33.89 | 82.2 88.3 76.7 88.7 | 82.7 78.4 76.6 75.3 | 75.8 75.3 74.7 73.6
Advanced processing | 54.81 | 80.6 84.2 76.6 82.3 | 79.5 78.2 76.9 75.3 | 76.1 75.4 74.3 73.4
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Note. See notes to table 2.
Estimates for the month of October are preliminary. Estimates from July to September are revised.