Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

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Release Date: May 17, 2011

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: Summary

Seasonally adjusted
Industrial production 2007=100 Percent change
2010 2011 2010 2011 Apr. '10 to
Apr. '11
Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Mar.[r] Apr.[p] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Mar.[r] Apr.[p]
       
Total index 91.4 92.6 92.7 92.4 93.1 93.1 .3 1.3 .1 -.3 .7 .0 5.0
Previous estimates 91.4 92.6 92.8 92.8 93.6   .3 1.3 .1 .1 .8    
       
Major market groups
Final Products 92.7 93.8 94.5 94.4 94.8 94.3 -.2 1.2 .7 -.1 .5 -.5 5.2
Consumer goods 92.0 93.3 93.6 93.1 93.9 93.2 -.3 1.4 .3 -.5 .9 -.7 3.9
Business equipment 91.3 92.3 94.0 94.8 94.4 94.0 .2 1.2 1.8 .9 -.5 -.4 9.9
Nonindustrial supplies 83.0 83.3 83.2 82.9 83.5 83.9 1.0 .4 -.1 -.4 .7 .4 2.7
Construction 75.0 74.4 74.8 74.3 75.2 75.1 .9 -.7 .5 -.6 1.2 -.1 3.0
Materials 93.2 94.7 94.3 94.0 94.9 95.2 .5 1.6 -.4 -.3 .9 .3 5.4
       
Major industry groups
Manufacturing (see note below) 87.9 88.8 89.4 89.5 90.1 89.7 .2 1.1 .6 .2 .6 -.4 4.6
Previous estimates 87.9 88.9 89.6 90.1 90.7   .2 1.1 .8 .6 .7    
Mining 104.5 104.5 103.3 102.3 103.8 104.6 -.2 .0 -1.2 -.9 1.4 .8 4.1
Utilities 100.6 105.1 103.4 101.0 101.7 103.4 1.8 4.5 -1.7 -2.3 .7 1.7 8.0

Capacity utilization Percent of capacity Capacity
growth
Average
1972-
2010
1988-
89
high
1990-
91
low
1994-
95
high
2008-
09
low
 
2010
Apr.
   
2010 2011 Apr. '10 to
Apr. '11
Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Mar.[r] Apr.[p]
       
Total industry 80.4 85.2 78.8 85.1 67.3 73.2 75.8 76.8 76.8 76.5 77.0 76.9 -.1
Previous estimates             75.8 76.8 76.9 76.9 77.4    
       
Manufacturing (see note below) 79.0 85.5 77.3 84.7 64.4 70.7 73.1 73.9 74.3 74.4 74.8 74.4 -.6
Previous estimates             73.1 73.9 74.5 74.9 75.3    
Mining 87.4 86.3 83.8 88.5 79.0 85.5 88.9 88.8 87.6 86.6 87.6 88.2 1.0
Utilities 86.6 92.9 84.3 93.3 79.2 78.3 80.4 83.7 82.1 80.0 80.4 81.6 3.6
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude 86.4 87.7 84.3 89.6 77.6 84.9 86.8 87.4 86.8 85.9 86.6 87.0 .9
Primary and semifinished 81.3 86.5 77.9 87.9 64.9 70.2 73.0 74.5 74.3 73.7 74.4 74.5 -.8
Finished 77.3 83.3 77.4 80.7 66.8 72.2 74.5 75.0 75.6 76.0 76.1 75.6 .7

r Revised. p Preliminary.
Note. The statistics in this release cover output, capacity, and capacity utilization in the
U.S. industrial sector, which is defined by the Federal Reserve to comprise manufacturing,
mining, and electric and gas utilities. Mining is defined as all industries in sector 21 of the
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS); electric and gas utilities are those in
NAICS sectors 2211 and 2212. Manufacturing comprises NAICS manufacturing industries (sector 31-33)
plus the logging industry and the newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishing industries.
Logging and publishing are classified elsewhere in NAICS (under agriculture and information
respectively), but historically they were considered to be manufacturing and were included in
the industrial sector under the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. In December 2002
the Federal Reserve reclassified all its industrial output data from the SIC system to NAICS.


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