Table 6
 REVISED AND EARLIER CAPACITY UTILIZATION RATES, BY INDUSTRY GROUPS
 
   Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
 
 
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                                                          |               |                                         |         Difference between
                                                          |               |              Revised rate               |      revised and earlier rates
                                                          |               |                                         |         (percentage points)
                                                          |               |   1972-                                 |                                    
 Item                                                     |     NAICS     |    2008    2005    2006    2007    2008 |     2005     2006     2007     2008
                                                          |               |    Ave.      Q4      Q4      Q4      Q4 |       Q4       Q4       Q4       Q4
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  Total industry                                          |               |   80.9    80.4    80.6    80.4    74.3  |      .0      -.1      -.5      -.6 
                                                          |               |                                         |
  Manufacturing<1>                                        |               |   79.6    79.2    79.0    78.7    71.1  |      .0       .0      -.6      -.6 
     Manufacturing (NAICS)                                |        31-33  |   79.4    78.9    78.8    78.6    71.0  |      .0      -.1      -.6      -.7 
                                                          |               |                                         |
        Durable manufacturing                             |               |   77.8    77.9    77.3    77.0    67.3  |      .0       .0      -.8      -.5 
           Wood products                                  |          321  |   79.2    89.2    75.2    68.6    54.8  |     -.7      -.7     -1.5     -1.6 
           Nonmetallic mineral products                   |          327  |   77.7    78.1    72.6    70.5    63.1  |    -5.3     -6.3     -7.5     -5.9 
           Primary metal                                  |          331  |   80.5    83.3    80.4    84.1    62.0  |     -.6      -.4       .3      -.9 
           Fabricated metal products                      |          332  |   77.5    77.6    79.5    80.5    74.2  |     -.4      -.4      -.8      -.6 
           Machinery                                      |          333  |   78.6    79.8    81.8    79.8    70.2  |     1.3      2.4      2.6      1.4 
           Computer and electronic products               |          334  |   78.3    75.3    78.4    75.4    69.9  |      .6       .4     -2.5       .0 
          Electrical equip., appliances,                  |               |                                         |
              and components                              |          335  |   83.2    83.1    82.2    82.8    78.4  |     -.1       .2      -.6       .7 
           Motor vehicles and parts                       |       3361-3  |   76.7    76.4    70.3    70.2    53.8  |    -1.9     -2.0     -2.1     -2.0 
          Aerospace and miscellaneous                     |               |                                         |
              transportation equipment                    |       3364-9  |   73.2    73.2    77.3    84.2    71.8  |     3.2      4.5      3.9      2.7 
           Furniture and related products                 |          337  |   78.4    79.8    79.0    77.6    65.1  |      .8      1.5      1.0      2.1 
           Miscellaneous                                  |          339  |   76.5    77.0    76.3    74.4    69.4  |      .2      -.2      -.4     -2.4 
                                                          |               |                                         |
        Nondurable manufacturing                          |               |   81.5    80.1    80.6    80.5    75.0  |      .1      -.2      -.5     -1.0 
           Food, beverage, and tobacco products           |        311,2  |   81.5    80.3    79.4    79.7    77.4  |     -.5      -.9     -1.4     -1.6 
           Textile and product mills                      |        313,4  |   81.6    78.5    73.1    71.3    65.6  |    -1.2       .6      2.5      3.5 
           Apparel and leather                            |        315,6  |   79.5    75.2    76.8    77.7    72.2  |     5.7      4.9      4.7      2.4 
           Paper                                          |          322  |   87.6    84.4    84.2    82.6    74.4  |      .4      -.1       .0       .5 
           Printing and support                           |          323  |   83.4    78.3    79.7    78.4    72.7  |      .6      1.1      1.9      3.5 
           Petroleum and coal products                    |          324  |   86.1    88.4    88.8    87.1    85.7  |     1.1      -.1     -1.7     -3.7 
           Chemical                                       |          325  |   78.2    75.7    79.0    78.5    70.3  |      .2      -.1      -.5     -1.0 
           Plastics and rubber products                   |          326  |   83.6    85.2    81.9    84.1    72.7  |     -.7      -.4      -.5     -1.5 
                                                          |               |                                         |
     Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)                      |    1133,5111  |   84.2    84.1    82.2    80.2    72.6  |    -1.2      1.5      1.1       .6 
                                                          |               |                                         |
  Mining                                                  |           21  |   87.6    85.4    90.8    89.8    89.5  |     -.1      -.5      -.1      -.4 
  Utilities                                               |       2211,2  |   86.8    85.3    83.7    85.2    83.0  |     -.4      -.7      -.7     -1.2 
                                                          |               |                                         |
  Selected high-technology industries                     |               |   78.2    77.4    82.8    79.6    70.7  |     2.2      2.9      -.9      2.4 
     Computers and peripheral equipment                   |         3341  |   78.1    74.3    79.5    81.6    74.0  |      .0      2.0      3.0     13.6 
     Communications equipment                             |         3342  |   76.2    67.5    82.3    77.3    74.5  |     5.7      8.9     -3.6     -5.1 
     Semiconductors and related                           |               |                                         |
        electronic components                             |     334412-9  |   80.6    84.6    84.9    80.0    66.4  |      .4      -.3     -1.3      1.1 
                                                          |               |                                         |
  Measures excluding selected high-technology             |               |                                         |
        industries                                        |               |                                         |
  Total industry                                          |               |   81.0    80.5    80.5    80.5    74.4  |     -.2      -.3      -.5      -.8 
     Manufacturing<1>                                     |               |   79.7    79.3    78.8    78.7    71.1  |     -.2      -.2      -.5      -.8 
                                                          |               |                                         |
  Stage-of-process groups                                 |               |                                         |
  Crude                                                   |               |   86.6    83.1    88.7    88.3    83.9  |     -.2      -.4      -.8     -1.6 
  Primary and semifinished                                |               |   82.0    82.6    80.7    80.7    73.5  |     -.7      -.7      -.6      -.6 
  Finished                                                |               |   77.7    76.6    77.6    77.2    71.1  |      .7       .6      -.4      -.6 
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 Note: Estimates for the fourth quarter of 2008 are subject to further revision in the upcoming monthly releases.
 1.  See footnote 2 to table 3.