Table 2 CAPACITY UTILIZATION: MANUFACTURING, MINING, AND UTILITIES Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted | | | 1972- 1988- 1990- 1994- 2008-| | | | 2009 | 2009 1982 1989 1991 1995 2009| 2009 | 2010 Item | NAICS | Proportion| Ave. Low High Low High Low| Nov. | June[r] July[r] Aug.[r] Sept.[r] Oct.[r] Nov.[p] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total industry | | 100.00 | 80.6 70.9 85.2 78.7 85.1 68.2 | 71.1 | 74.2 74.8 75.0 75.1 74.9 75.2 | | | | | Stage-of-process groups | | | | | Crude | | 13.87 | 86.5 78.2 87.8 84.2 90.0 78.3 | 81.7 | 84.6 85.7 87.1 88.4 88.2 88.6 Primary and semifinished | | 46.13 | 81.6 68.3 86.6 77.9 87.9 65.7 | 68.2 | 72.0 72.2 72.0 71.6 70.9 71.6 Finished | | 40.00 | 77.5 70.7 83.4 77.3 80.5 67.5 | 71.1 | 73.2 73.9 74.0 74.1 74.6 74.3 | | | | | Industry Groups | | | | | Manufacturing | | 79.41 | 79.2 68.5 85.6 77.2 84.6 65.4 | 69.0 | 71.8 72.3 72.3 72.4 72.6 72.8 Manufacturing (NAICS) | 31-33 | 75.63 | 79.0 67.9 85.5 77.1 84.8 65.2 | 68.9 | 72.0 72.5 72.6 72.7 72.9 73.2 Durable manufacturing | | 41.96 | 77.5 63.0 84.9 73.8 83.7 61.0 | 65.8 | 69.8 70.6 70.2 70.2 70.7 70.9 Wood products | 321 | 1.22 | 78.5 59.7 88.2 73.3 87.2 53.4 | 57.4 | 61.7 61.0 60.8 60.1 61.8 63.1 Nonmetallic mineral products | 327 | 2.48 | 77.0 64.1 83.8 71.7 82.6 52.0 | 55.3 | 56.8 57.5 57.6 57.5 58.6 58.6 Primary metal | 331 | 2.43 | 79.7 48.1 94.1 75.4 94.1 46.8 | 62.9 | 70.4 66.4 65.9 67.3 66.3 68.4 Iron and steel products | 3311,2 | 1.22 | 81.0 38.0 97.7 71.0 97.8 35.8 | 64.1 | 75.5 68.0 67.3 69.7 66.4 70.0 Fabricated metal products | 332 | 6.13 | 77.4 61.8 81.7 72.5 85.7 65.1 | 67.9 | 73.7 74.8 75.8 76.2 76.1 77.2 Machinery | 333 | 5.34 | 78.3 57.6 85.8 74.3 87.2 61.1 | 62.3 | 72.8 72.7 72.7 73.0 74.8 75.8 Computer and electronic products | 334 | 7.56 | 78.2 77.8 82.4 76.5 84.7 68.0 | 71.0 | 73.5 74.1 73.9 73.2 73.0 73.3 Computer and peripheral equip. | 3341 | .94 | 78.0 66.8 79.1 69.7 87.0 67.7 | 81.3 | 78.2 79.7 80.4 80.8 80.9 81.0 Communications equipment | 3342 | .93 | 76.4 84.3 86.5 76.9 83.6 73.4 | 80.2 | 82.3 81.1 80.5 80.4 80.2 80.2 Semiconductor and related | | | | | electronic components | 334412-9 | 2.26 | 80.5 77.5 81.9 76.7 92.4 61.8 | 66.2 | 68.9 68.9 68.5 67.1 65.4 65.4 Electrical equipment, appliances, | | | | | and components | 335 | 1.93 | 83.0 64.5 89.4 77.2 93.0 70.4 | 72.7 | 76.8 76.7 77.9 77.1 79.5 80.4 Transportation equipment | 336 | 9.92 | 74.6 56.0 87.4 68.1 78.8 53.2 | 63.2 | 64.8 68.2 66.1 66.2 66.7 64.9 Motor vehicles and parts | 3361-3 | 5.59 | 75.8 44.7 90.8 56.9 87.6 35.8 | 55.3 | 60.2 66.1 62.0 62.3 63.3 59.6 Autos and light trucks | 33611 | 2.35 | 76.3 39.7 94.3 53.5 89.1 26.3 | 59.2 | 63.9 75.0 67.4 68.1 69.4 61.7 Aerospace and miscellaneous | | | | | transportation equipment | 3364-9 | 4.34 | 72.9 68.4 87.7 81.2 68.8 66.3 | 72.8 | 70.3 70.8 71.0 70.8 70.6 71.1 Furniture and related products | 337 | 1.40 | 78.0 65.2 82.2 68.4 82.6 64.6 | 65.7 | 70.2 70.4 69.8 70.4 70.6 71.4 Miscellaneous | 339 | 3.56 | 76.1 68.9 82.6 77.3 80.7 68.4 | 71.1 | 69.5 70.1 69.1 69.2 69.5 70.0 | | | | | Nondurable manufacturing | | 33.67 | 81.3 75.3 86.6 81.3 86.1 70.1 | 72.8 | 74.7 74.9 75.5 75.7 75.7 76.0 Food | 311 | 7.92 | 82.5 79.6 86.2 83.1 86.2 76.8 | 79.0 | 80.7 80.7 82.3 83.0 82.4 82.2 Beverage and tobacco products | 312 | 2.79 | 78.2 78.5 86.9 74.2 86.4 64.7 | 66.9 | 71.0 70.6 71.7 69.4 72.8 71.0 Textile mills | 313 | .45 | 80.8 72.2 91.6 78.0 94.8 54.8 | 66.5 | 71.0 74.0 74.2 73.7 73.3 72.3 Textile product mills | 314 | .42 | 81.2 70.3 90.8 75.8 88.8 58.3 | 61.6 | 62.8 63.8 63.5 64.4 65.0 63.5 Apparel | 315 | .26 | 79.7 76.0 84.6 77.5 88.8 70.2 | 72.8 | 79.2 77.8 80.3 78.6 81.5 81.7 Leather and allied products | 316 | .10 | 73.7 72.8 80.5 72.0 80.8 53.9 | 59.2 | 67.1 69.1 73.6 72.5 74.5 74.5 Paper | 322 | 2.46 | 87.2 81.7 92.7 86.0 92.6 69.7 | 76.4 | 78.4 78.2 77.7 78.0 77.3 78.6 Printing and support | 323 | 2.01 | 82.8 80.3 91.6 83.1 85.7 63.4 | 63.8 | 65.2 64.6 65.8 64.8 64.6 65.8 Petroleum and coal products | 324 | 1.91 | 86.1 68.6 85.8 81.4 91.0 74.8 | 81.1 | 84.7 86.8 85.9 85.1 84.6 85.1 Chemical | 325 | 12.12 | 78.1 68.0 85.0 80.1 81.9 67.5 | 73.6 | 73.5 73.4 73.9 75.1 74.9 75.4 Plastics material and resin | 325211 | .58 | 88.0 66.1 96.7 81.4 102.0 59.1 | 87.7 | 84.7 86.7 87.0 Synthetic rubber | 325212 | .08 | 77.0 54.4 94.1 72.1 86.6 64.2 | 67.0 | 67.8 71.4 71.8 77.9 74.4 73.6 Artificial and synthetic fibers | | | | | and filaments | 32522 | .08 | 81.4 63.1 93.9 75.8 91.3 58.7 | 73.6 | 76.8 76.7 72.8 78.9 Plastics and rubber products | 326 | 3.22 | 82.6 72.1 89.6 77.0 92.7 57.3 | 61.0 | 65.5 66.2 66.2 65.4 65.6 66.2 | | | | | Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) | 1133,5111 | 3.79 | 83.8 86.5 91.0 80.0 83.2 68.0 | 70.5 | 68.2 68.0 67.7 66.3 66.0 65.5 | | | | | Mining | 21 | 10.24 | 87.4 79.7 86.4 83.6 88.9 79.6 | 82.4 | 85.2 86.3 88.1 89.0 88.8 88.7 Oil and gas extraction | 211 | 5.66 | 92.1 89.6 91.7 89.4 94.7 80.2 | 96.7 | 95.3 96.5 99.2 100.6 100.5 100.2 Mining (except oil and gas) | 212 | 2.60 | 83.8 67.8 91.2 80.3 87.4 69.3 | 74.3 | 77.2 78.2 78.3 77.8 76.8 76.7 Coal mining | 2121 | 1.14 | 86.0 76.3 92.5 79.5 87.3 78.6 | 81.3 | 82.8 82.4 80.9 83.1 82.1 81.5 Metal mining | 2122 | .55 | 78.4 31.8 93.3 81.4 90.1 64.8 | 73.1 | 73.3 80.2 79.5 78.4 78.3 78.9 Stone and earth minerals | 2123 | .91 | 83.2 65.5 89.8 76.3 93.1 59.0 | 66.0 | 73.2 71.3 74.1 70.6 68.9 68.7 Support activities for mining | 213 | 1.99 | 74.7 53.1 63.2 53.4 77.2 48.9 | 53.3 | 67.4 68.0 69.1 69.9 70.4 71.0 Utilities | 2211,2 | 10.34 | 86.7 77.4 92.9 84.3 93.3 77.6 | 77.6 | 81.5 82.1 81.1 80.0 76.9 78.4 Electric | 2211 | 8.85 | 88.1 78.1 94.3 87.7 95.9 77.5 | 78.0 | 81.9 82.5 81.1 79.6 76.8 77.7 Natural gas | 2212 | 1.49 | 80.0 72.9 86.4 67.5 87.4 75.2 | 75.2 | 79.4 80.4 81.8 83.3 78.4 83.2 | | | | | Special Aggregates | | | | | Selected high-technology industries | | 4.13 | 78.3 75.4 81.2 74.6 86.8 67.0 | 72.6 | 73.6 73.7 73.4 72.6 71.7 71.7 Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech | | | | | industries | | 75.28 | 79.3 68.1 86.0 77.4 84.5 65.2 | 68.8 | 71.6 72.2 72.2 72.3 72.6 72.8 Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech | | | | | and motor vehicles and pts. | | 69.69 | 79.6 69.5 85.6 79.1 84.3 67.4 | 69.8 | 72.5 72.6 73.0 73.1 73.3 73.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ r Revised. p Preliminary.