Table 2 CAPACITY UTILIZATION: MANUFACTURING, MINING, AND UTILITIES Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted | | | 1972- 1988- 1990- 1994- 2001-| | | | 2009 | 2009 1982 1989 1991 1995 2002| 2009 | 2009 2010 Item | NAICS | Proportion| Ave. Low High Low High Low| Mar. | Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Mar.[p] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total industry | | 100.00 | 80.6 70.9 85.1 78.7 84.9 73.5 | 69.5 | 70.8 71.4 72.0 72.7 73.0 73.2 | | | | | Stage-of-process groups | | | | | Crude | | 11.83 | 86.5 78.1 88.3 84.7 89.9 81.7 | 79.5 | 83.0 84.3 84.3 85.4 86.3 87.4 Primary and semifinished | | 47.38 | 81.6 68.1 86.5 77.9 87.9 74.3 | 67.1 | 67.8 68.2 69.3 69.7 70.0 69.5 Finished | | 40.79 | 77.5 71.0 83.0 77.2 80.3 70.0 | 68.2 | 69.4 70.0 70.1 71.2 71.2 71.8 | | | | | Industry Groups | | | | | Manufacturing | | 82.66 | 79.2 68.6 85.4 77.2 84.5 71.4 | 66.0 | 67.6 68.4 68.4 69.1 69.4 70.0 Manufacturing (NAICS) | 31-33 | 78.77 | 79.0 67.9 85.4 77.1 84.6 70.9 | 66.1 | 67.9 68.7 68.6 69.5 69.7 70.5 Durable manufacturing | | 41.62 | 77.3 63.0 84.6 73.6 83.7 67.8 | 59.9 | 61.3 62.0 62.1 63.2 63.2 64.1 Wood products | 321 | 1.27 | 78.4 59.4 87.1 72.6 87.5 70.4 | 48.7 | 49.9 50.2 49.9 50.6 50.2 51.0 Nonmetallic mineral products | 327 | 2.69 | 77.1 63.9 83.8 71.7 82.5 70.4 | 54.5 | 54.6 56.1 53.5 54.9 52.9 53.8 Primary metal | 331 | 2.31 | 79.8 47.0 94.4 74.8 94.7 68.0 | 45.4 | 55.7 59.0 61.8 62.7 63.2 64.4 Iron and steel products | 3311,2 | 1.07 | 80.9 38.0 97.6 70.9 97.6 68.9 | 33.3 | 58.2 59.3 64.2 67.0 66.7 68.6 Fabricated metal products | 332 | 6.06 | 77.1 61.8 81.7 72.7 85.5 69.4 | 64.6 | 63.4 64.4 64.8 65.6 66.0 66.9 Machinery | 333 | 5.26 | 78.1 57.9 85.5 74.1 87.9 62.8 | 60.5 | 58.5 58.0 60.0 61.3 62.1 62.9 Computer and electronic products | 334 | 7.40 | 77.9 77.9 82.2 76.8 84.4 58.8 | 64.4 | 63.8 64.1 64.4 65.7 67.0 68.2 Computer and peripheral equip. | 3341 | .93 | 77.8 67.1 79.6 70.1 87.3 66.8 | 67.3 | 67.0 67.3 67.7 68.8 69.4 70.4 Communications equipment | 3342 | 1.45 | 76.0 84.6 85.3 76.9 82.9 41.6 | 70.3 | 65.7 66.6 67.1 68.1 69.5 70.7 Semiconductor and related | | | | | electronic components | 334412-9 | 1.84 | 80.0 77.2 83.1 78.0 91.7 58.0 | 57.0 | 60.0 58.7 58.8 61.0 63.6 64.8 Electrical equipment, appliances, | | | | | and components | 335 | 1.98 | 82.9 64.6 89.1 77.0 93.1 72.1 | 71.4 | 70.9 71.3 69.6 72.6 72.2 73.6 Transportation equipment | 336 | 9.45 | 74.7 56.3 86.4 67.6 79.4 69.2 | 54.7 | 60.0 60.4 60.1 61.7 60.3 61.2 Motor vehicles and parts | 3361-3 | 5.77 | 75.8 45.0 89.2 56.0 88.7 69.2 | 41.7 | 50.8 52.2 52.3 55.0 53.1 54.4 Autos and light trucks | 33611 | 2.42 | 76.1 39.7 94.8 53.7 89.1 74.9 | 34.8 | 49.5 52.4 52.0 57.4 53.3 55.8 Aerospace and miscellaneous | | | | | transportation equipment | 3364-9 | 3.69 | 73.2 67.6 87.7 80.8 68.6 64.4 | 75.9 | 74.9 73.6 72.7 72.6 72.1 72.2 Furniture and related products | 337 | 1.45 | 77.9 65.7 82.2 67.6 83.1 68.3 | 60.4 | 57.4 57.6 57.7 57.4 57.4 59.0 Miscellaneous | 339 | 3.74 | 76.3 68.9 82.5 77.3 81.3 71.0 | 66.4 | 68.5 69.9 68.7 68.8 68.4 68.5 | | | | | Nondurable manufacturing | | 37.15 | 81.3 75.2 86.7 81.6 85.7 75.0 | 72.8 | 75.0 75.9 75.8 76.1 76.8 77.3 Food | 311 | 8.91 | 82.4 79.8 86.3 83.9 85.4 77.2 | 78.7 | 81.2 81.6 80.9 81.9 82.7 83.1 Beverage and tobacco products | 312 | 2.82 | 78.3 77.9 87.1 74.2 86.0 64.5 | 69.2 | 65.8 65.8 67.0 66.2 66.2 66.7 Textile mills | 313 | .52 | 80.7 72.5 91.4 77.7 93.6 66.0 | 55.8 | 61.8 66.9 66.2 65.8 67.3 67.9 Textile product mills | 314 | .46 | 81.2 70.4 90.7 75.4 88.7 72.7 | 61.4 | 63.6 63.5 64.4 65.2 65.7 65.5 Apparel | 315 | .48 | 80.1 76.5 85.0 78.0 89.9 65.5 | 70.5 | 68.2 69.2 71.4 75.2 74.4 75.2 Leather and allied products | 316 | .11 | 73.9 73.1 81.7 72.6 80.4 51.2 | 54.9 | 56.6 57.9 59.6 63.9 65.0 65.0 Paper | 322 | 2.62 | 87.2 81.6 92.8 86.2 92.7 78.8 | 68.9 | 72.2 75.9 74.5 73.1 74.3 74.1 Printing and support | 323 | 1.81 | 83.0 80.4 91.4 82.5 87.0 72.7 | 67.3 | 68.2 68.2 68.7 68.6 67.9 67.7 Petroleum and coal products | 324 | 3.49 | 86.0 68.6 85.8 81.4 91.1 86.0 | 84.8 | 83.7 83.4 81.2 78.3 80.6 83.1 Chemical | 325 | 12.83 | 78.0 67.9 85.2 80.2 81.1 69.5 | 69.1 | 72.5 73.8 74.0 75.0 75.2 75.1 Plastics material and resin | 325211 | .81 | 86.4 66.2 92.8 79.5 98.5 80.3 | 76.0 | 84.7 84.7 82.4 Synthetic rubber | 325212 | .12 | 76.2 54.5 94.2 72.2 86.8 54.9 | 68.0 | 64.1 63.0 61.8 68.1 67.9 68.3 Artificial and synthetic fibers | | | | | and filaments | 32522 | .09 | 80.9 63.1 94.1 75.9 91.3 55.7 | 62.1 | 70.6 70.0 69.1 69.8 69.5 Plastics and rubber products | 326 | 3.09 | 83.1 71.9 89.5 76.9 92.2 74.6 | 65.6 | 68.5 69.3 70.1 71.6 72.4 73.9 | | | | | Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) | 1133,5111 | 3.89 | 83.7 86.7 91.1 80.3 83.0 79.8 | 64.2 | 62.9 64.1 64.2 62.5 61.8 61.4 | | | | | Mining | 21 | 7.18 | 87.5 79.7 86.5 83.8 89.1 84.9 | 84.9 | 83.8 85.5 84.8 86.6 88.2 90.2 Oil and gas extraction | 211 | 3.47 | 92.2 89.5 91.7 89.4 94.8 90.0 | 96.3 | 97.9 98.1 97.6 98.1 97.7 97.6 Mining (except oil and gas) | 212 | 1.99 | 83.9 68.0 91.5 80.9 87.8 78.7 | 76.9 | 72.6 74.6 71.0 72.9 76.2 79.9 Coal mining | 2121 | .85 | 86.1 76.3 92.5 79.5 87.3 78.7 | 85.0 | 82.5 83.2 79.9 79.2 81.9 Metal mining | 2122 | .39 | 78.9 32.5 95.2 84.7 91.6 66.6 | 73.6 | 69.0 69.6 67.1 68.0 71.3 72.5 Stone and earth minerals | 2123 | .74 | 83.3 65.5 89.9 76.2 93.0 79.3 | 70.2 | 64.2 68.6 64.1 69.6 73.7 78.8 Support activities for mining | 213 | 1.73 | 74.8 53.1 63.1 53.3 77.0 65.2 | 55.5 | 50.8 54.1 56.3 59.8 62.3 65.6 Utilities | 2211,2 | 10.16 | 86.6 77.4 92.8 84.2 93.3 84.2 | 80.8 | 80.4 78.3 84.1 84.2 84.1 78.6 Electric | 2211 | 8.57 | 88.0 78.0 94.3 87.7 95.8 86.7 | 81.4 | 78.7 78.6 83.6 83.1 83.6 78.7 Natural gas | 2212 | 1.59 | 80.1 72.9 86.4 67.5 87.4 71.1 | 77.4 | 89.0 76.0 86.3 90.0 86.7 77.9 | | | | | Special Aggregates | | | | | Selected high-technology industries | | 4.22 | 77.8 75.2 81.7 75.4 86.5 56.5 | 63.5 | 63.0 62.8 63.0 64.5 66.2 67.3 Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech | | | | | industries | | 78.44 | 79.3 68.1 85.9 77.3 84.4 72.7 | 66.1 | 67.9 68.7 68.7 69.4 69.5 70.2 Manufacturing ex. selected high-tech | | | | | and motor vehicles and pts. | | 72.67 | 79.6 69.5 85.6 79.2 84.1 72.6 | 68.0 | 69.2 70.0 69.9 70.4 70.7 71.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ r Revised. p Preliminary.