Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

Annual Revision (400 KB PDF) (ASCII)

Release Date: March 25, 2011

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-
2010
Ave.

2007
Q4

2008
Q4

2009
Q4
 
2010 
Q4 

2007
Q4

2008
Q4

2009
Q4

2010
Q4
Total industry   80.4 81.1 73.6 70.3 76.2 .0 -.7 -.8 .6
       
Manufacturing[1]   79.0 79.0 70.1 67.7 73.4 -.1 -.8 -1.1 .4
Manufacturing (NAICS) 31-33 78.8 79.0 69.8 67.6 73.7 -.1 -.8 -1.1 .5
       
Durable manufacturing   77.2 78.4 68.0 63.2 70.8 .1 -1.0 -2.4 -.5
Wood products 321 77.8 70.8 58.2 54.6 60.6 -.9 -.8 -2.7 -2.0
Nonmetallic mineral products 327 75.9 67.4 54.6 46.5 51.8 -3.5 -4.5 -7.0 -5.7
Primary metal 331 79.4 83.6 64.5 61.6 68.6 -.3 1.0 -1.0 -.2
Fabricated metal products 332 77.2 84.6 73.9 61.9 72.9 2.6 -1.1 -5.8 -4.2
Machinery 333 78.1 83.0 77.0 62.3 74.2 -.6 .0 -1.1 -2.3
Computer and electronic products 334 78.1 75.8 72.2 71.2 79.4 -.4 -.9 .4 5.0
Electrical equip., appliances,
and components
335 82.7 88.6 79.9 67.6 76.1 2.5 .4 -4.6 -3.0
Motor vehicles and parts 3361-3 75.3 68.8 48.9 54.0 61.3 -.2 -.7 -.9 .0
Aerospace and miscellaneous
transportation equipment
3364-9 73.0 88.6 73.2 71.5 71.4 .9 -.7 -1.4 .9
Furniture and related products 337 77.5 78.6 68.2 60.4 66.7 -1.9 -3.7 -5.1 -4.8
Miscellaneous 339 76.0 73.5 72.8 71.3 76.5 .3 .1 1.1 6.9
       
Nondurable manufacturing   81.1 79.7 71.9 72.9 77.0 -.3 -.6 .2 1.3
Food, beverage, and tobacco products 311,2 81.2 79.1 76.5 75.9 79.0 -.8 .2 .0 -.4
Textile and product mills 313,4 80.4 71.8 63.7 58.1 64.0 -.9 .4 -5.2 -4.9
Apparel and leather 315,6 78.2 72.4 73.9 63.2 69.2 1.2 -.3 -6.3 -11.7
Paper 322 87.1 84.4 75.0 79.5 83.2 -.2 .9 4.3 5.0
Printing and support 323 82.2 77.5 69.4 63.8 64.0 .1 -1.5 -.2 -.1
Petroleum and coal products 324 85.8 86.4 81.8 79.1 85.5 -1.1 -1.7 -1.6 -.5
Chemical 325 78.0 79.0 68.3 73.1 76.4 .3 -1.5 -.2 1.5
Plastics and rubber products 326 82.3 77.9 64.5 62.8 71.6 .1 -.4 1.7 5.2
       
Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) 1133,5111 83.4 79.5 76.2 69.9 66.8 -.4 .0 -.2 .0
       
Mining 21 87.4 90.5 87.8 80.2 89.1 .7 -.3 -1.4 .2
Utilities 2211,2 86.6 85.2 82.9 81.5 81.3 -.3 -.5 1.7 .6
       
Selected high-technology industries   78.4 81.1 76.8 74.1 80.3 1.6 1.7 1.6 5.9
Computers and peripheral equipment 3341 78.6 82.4 80.0 93.3 86.3 2.4 2.9 13.2 2.2
Communications equipment 3342 76.7 75.5 84.7 80.9 78.7 .0 .0 .8 -2.3
Semiconductors and related
electronic components
334412-9 80.3 82.1 72.7 65.8 78.8 1.7 2.5 -.7 10.1
       
Measures excluding selected high-technology
industries
Total industry   80.5 81.1 73.5 70.2 76.0 -.1 -.8 -.9 .5
Manufacturing[1]   79.0 78.9 69.7 67.4 73.0 -.2 -.9 -1.2 .2
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude   86.4 89.8 83.6 80.4 87.1 .6 -.7 -1.1 -.6
Primary and semifinished   81.3 80.9 72.0 67.6 73.3 .0 -.6 -.8 .8
Finished   77.3 77.5 71.0 70.2 75.0 -.3 -.8 -.8 .4

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



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Last update: March 25, 2011