Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

Annual Revision (458 KB PDF) (ASCII)

Release Date: July 21, 2015

Table 6 Revised and Earlier Capacity Utilization Rates, by Industry Groups

Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
                   
Item NAICS Revised rate Difference between
revised and earlier rates
(percentage points)
1972-
2014
Ave.

2011
Q4

2012
Q4

2013
Q4
 
2014 
Q4 

2011
Q4

2012
Q4

2013
Q4

2014
Q4
Total industry   80.1 76.7 76.5 77.0 78.8 -.1 -.8 -1.4 -.7
       
Manufacturing[1]   78.5 74.4 74.1 74.2 76.2 -.3 -1.4 -2.2 -1.6
Manufacturing (NAICS) 31-33 78.4 74.7 74.6 74.7 77.0 -.3 -1.5 -2.3 -1.7
       
Durable manufacturing   76.9 73.2 74.2 74.4 76.9 -.1 -.7 -1.9 -1.1
Wood products 321 76.4 60.7 66.3 70.1 71.9 .2 -.3 -2.5 .0
Nonmetallic mineral products 327 74.2 53.3 55.8 59.0 62.5 -.1 -.5 -.9 -2.6
Primary metals 331 79.0 76.1 76.1 76.0 77.8 .0 .9 -1.4 -.7
Fabricated metal products 332 77.6 78.2 77.2 79.5 81.5 -1.4 -3.0 -1.3 .9
Machinery 333 77.8 78.5 79.2 74.0 78.0 -1.0 1.4 -4.8 -5.1
Computer and electronic products 334 77.9 74.1 73.2 73.0 74.1 .4 -.7 -.2 2.6
Electrical equip., appliances,
and components
335 82.2 80.4 81.7 81.1 83.0 .1 -.9 -2.3 -1.6
Motor vehicles and parts 3361-3 74.8 67.0 69.4 73.0 76.5 -.4 -3.4 -5.2 -6.1
Aerospace and miscellaneous
transportation equipment
3364-9 73.8 74.2 78.7 76.5 78.3 .7 3.1 1.0 .0
Furniture and related products 337 76.5 66.4 69.8 72.2 78.9 .7 -.5 -1.7 -1.3
Miscellaneous 339 76.3 76.8 76.0 77.4 78.9 1.6 -1.1 1.6 2.9
       
Nondurable manufacturing   80.4 76.4 75.0 75.1 77.0 -.6 -2.5 -2.8 -2.5
Food, beverage, and tobacco products 311,2 80.8 77.6 78.2 79.0 79.1 -.8 -2.2 -1.2 -1.5
Textile and product mills 313,4 79.5 65.6 66.1 71.1 73.2 -.8 -2.0 .7 -1.2
Apparel and leather 315,6 76.9 66.1 63.0 64.0 65.7 -.5 -5.2 -11.0 -12.3
Paper 322 86.6 81.7 83.6 82.5 83.5 -.5 1.1 .1 -.2
Printing and support 323 80.0 62.2 62.0 63.2 63.3 -4.2 -5.1 -7.6 -9.8
Petroleum and coal products 324 85.4 83.7 81.0 82.3 83.4 -1.4 -1.1 -.9 -1.1
Chemicals 325 77.2 75.7 71.5 70.1 73.7 .1 -4.1 -5.1 -3.6
Plastics and rubber products 326 82.0 73.6 76.0 76.0 80.7 1.2 1.3 -.5 1.0
       
Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) 1133,5111 81.4 67.1 62.7 62.5 58.5 1.1 .1 1.2 1.2
       
Mining 21 87.5 88.4 88.8 88.3 90.7 1.0 1.9 .7 2.4
Utilities 2211,2 85.9 79.2 78.4 81.7 80.0 -.1 .0 .4 .1
       
Selected high-technology industries   77.7 71.9 69.4 71.5 72.0 -.4 -1.5 .1 2.1
Computers and peripheral equipment 3341 77.8 73.5 67.1 64.1 66.4 1.5 -2.6 -4.9 -3.2
Communications equipment 3342 76.8 74.1 76.2 85.9 74.1 -2.9 -.4 7.7 -2.6
Semiconductors and related
electronic components
3344 79.1 71.1 68.1 69.2 72.9 .1 -1.7 -1.4 4.3
       
Measures excluding selected high-technology
industries
Total industry   80.2 76.9 76.7 77.2 79.0 .0 -.8 -1.4 -.9
Manufacturing[1]   78.6 74.5 74.3 74.3 76.4 -.2 -1.5 -2.3 -1.9
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude   86.3 86.8 86.2 86.3 88.2 1.1 .5 .3 1.7
Primary and semifinished   80.7 74.1 73.8 75.4 76.8 -.4 -1.2 -1.7 -1.2
Finished   77.0 75.1 75.1 74.1 76.2 -.3 -1.1 -2.0 -1.6

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



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