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     |    2009    2006    2007    2008    2009 |     2006     2007     2008     2009

                                                          |               |    Ave.      Q4      Q4      Q4      Q4 |       Q4       Q4       Q4       Q4

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  Total industry                                          |               |   80.6    80.7    81.1    74.3    71.1  |      .1       .7       .1      -.2 

                                                          |               |                                         |

  Manufacturing<1>                                        |               |   79.2    79.0    79.1    70.9    68.8  |      .0       .4      -.1       .6 

     Manufacturing (NAICS)                                |        31-33  |   79.0    78.9    79.1    70.6    68.7  |      .1       .4      -.3       .3 

                                                          |               |                                         |

        Durable manufacturing                             |               |   77.5    77.3    78.3    69.0    65.6  |      .0      1.3      1.9      3.8 

           Wood products                                  |          321  |   78.5    75.3    71.7    59.0    57.3  |      .1      3.1      4.2      7.3 

           Nonmetallic mineral products                   |          327  |   77.0    74.7    70.9    59.1    53.5  |     2.1       .3     -3.9     -1.2 

           Primary metal                                  |          331  |   79.7    76.5    83.9    63.5    62.6  |    -3.9      -.2      2.1      3.8 

           Fabricated metal products                      |          332  |   77.4    81.9    82.0    74.9    67.7  |     2.4      1.5       .9      3.6 

           Machinery                                      |          333  |   78.3    82.0    83.6    76.9    63.4  |      .2      3.9      6.6      4.6 

           Computer and electronic products               |          334  |   78.2    77.9    76.2    73.1    70.8  |     -.5       .8      3.7      6.7 

          Electrical equip., appliances,                  |               |                                         |

              and components                              |          335  |   83.0    83.9    86.1    79.5    72.1  |     1.6      3.3      1.1      1.5 

           Motor vehicles and parts                       |       3361-3  |   75.8    69.8    69.0    49.5    54.9  |     -.5     -1.2     -4.0      3.1 

          Aerospace and miscellaneous                     |               |                                         |

              transportation equipment                    |       3364-9  |   72.9    75.7    87.7    73.8    72.9  |    -1.6      3.4      1.8      -.8 

           Furniture and related products                 |          337  |   78.0    80.8    80.5    71.9    65.6  |     1.7      2.9      6.8      8.1 

           Miscellaneous                                  |          339  |   76.1    76.1    73.2    72.7    70.2  |     -.2     -1.2      3.3      1.2 

                                                          |               |                                         |

        Nondurable manufacturing                          |               |   81.3    80.8    80.0    72.5    72.6  |      .2      -.5     -2.3     -2.9 

           Food, beverage, and tobacco products           |        311,2  |   81.4    80.6    80.0    76.3    75.9  |     1.2       .2      -.8     -2.0 

           Textile and product mills                      |        313,4  |   81.0    74.4    72.7    63.3    63.3  |     1.3      1.4     -1.4     -1.1 

           Apparel and leather                            |        315,6  |   78.6    75.4    71.2    74.2    69.4  |    -1.4     -6.5      2.0      1.9 

           Paper                                          |          322  |   87.2    84.4    84.5    74.1    75.2  |      .3      1.9      -.2      1.1 

           Printing and support                           |          323  |   82.8    79.8    77.4    70.9    64.0  |      .2     -1.0     -1.8     -4.2 

           Petroleum and coal products                    |          324  |   86.1    89.8    87.5    83.4    80.7  |     1.0       .4     -2.3     -2.1 

           Chemical                                       |          325  |   78.1    78.9    78.8    69.8    73.2  |      .0       .2      -.3      -.2 

           Plastics and rubber products                   |          326  |   82.6    79.1    77.8    64.9    61.1  |    -2.8     -6.2     -7.8     -8.3 

                                                          |               |                                         |

     Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)                      |    1133,5111  |   83.8    80.9    79.9    76.2    70.1  |    -1.3      -.3      3.7      6.3 

                                                          |               |                                         |

  Mining                                                  |           21  |   87.4    90.5    89.7    88.1    81.7  |     -.3      -.1     -1.5     -2.9 

  Utilities                                               |       2211,2  |   86.7    83.5    85.6    83.4    79.8  |     -.2       .3      -.1     -1.2 

                                                          |               |                                         |

  Selected high-technology industries                     |               |   78.3    83.2    79.4    75.1    72.5  |      .4      -.2      5.3      9.6 

     Computers and peripheral equipment                   |         3341  |   78.0    78.2    80.0    77.1    80.1  |    -1.3     -1.5      3.0     12.3 

     Communications equipment                             |         3342  |   76.4    81.1    75.4    84.7    80.2  |    -1.1     -1.8     10.4     14.0 

     Semiconductors and related                           |               |                                         |

        electronic components                             |     334412-9  |   80.5    86.5    80.4    70.3    66.5  |     1.7       .4      5.8      7.3 

                                                          |               |                                         |

  Measures excluding selected high-technology             |               |                                         |

        industries                                        |               |                                         |

  Total industry                                          |               |   80.8    80.5    81.2    74.3    71.1  |      .1       .7      -.1      -.7 

     Manufacturing<1>                                     |               |   79.3    78.7    79.1    70.6    68.6  |      .0       .4      -.4       .1 

                                                          |               |                                         |

  Stage-of-process groups                                 |               |                                         |

  Crude                                                   |               |   86.5    88.6    89.3    84.4    81.4  |     -.2       .9       .5     -2.4 

  Primary and semifinished                                |               |   81.6    80.8    80.9    72.6    68.4  |      .1       .2      -.8      -.1 

  Finished                                                |               |   77.5    77.5    77.8    71.8    71.0  |     -.1       .6       .8      1.1 

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 1.  See footnote 2 to table 3.