Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

Annual Revision (400 KB PDF) (ASCII)

Release Date: March 22, 2013

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-
2012
Ave.

2009
Q4

2010
Q4

2011
Q4
 
2012 
Q4 

2009
Q4

2010
Q4

2011
Q4

2012
Q4
Total industry   80.2 69.7 75.6 77.1 77.5 .1 .2 -.8 -1.4
       
Manufacturing[1]   78.7 67.2 72.9 74.8 75.7 .2 -.2 -1.3 -1.5
Manufacturing (NAICS) 31-33 78.6 67.0 73.2 75.2 76.3 .2 -.2 -1.4 -1.6
       
Durable manufacturing   77.0 62.8 70.8 73.4 75.5 .3 .0 -1.7 -1.8
Wood products 321 76.8 53.0 58.7 61.4 66.8 -2.0 -1.9 -2.8 -3.8
Nonmetallic mineral products 327 74.8 45.1 51.9 53.9 56.3 .2 -.3 -.9 -.8
Primary metals 331 79.1 61.7 70.8 75.8 74.9 .7 .7 .5 .7
Fabricated metal products 332 77.4 64.0 74.8 79.3 83.0 1.2 .4 -.8 -.8
Machinery 333 78.1 62.0 75.3 80.5 80.1 -.7 -.1 -.6 -1.2
Computer and electronic products 334 78.1 70.9 79.6 73.8 74.6 .6 -.1 -4.1 -1.4
Electrical equip., appliances,
and components
335 82.5 66.5 77.3 80.3 81.9 -.9 -.9 .5 -2.6
Motor vehicles and parts 3361-3 75.0 53.0 61.1 67.9 74.0 .5 .5 -1.5 -3.1
Aerospace and miscellaneous
transportation equipment
3364-9 73.0 71.1 70.3 72.0 73.0 .8 -.3 -4.6 -5.1
Furniture and related products 337 76.8 58.0 63.5 66.8 70.6 -.3 -.5 -1.2 .8
Miscellaneous 339 76.0 71.7 75.5 75.4 77.9 .3 -1.3 -1.9 -2.4
       
Nondurable manufacturing   80.7 72.1 76.0 77.3 77.2 .0 -.5 -1.0 -1.2
Food, beverage, and tobacco products 311,2 81.0 75.9 77.1 78.9 80.3 -.2 -.3 -.1 1.1
Textile and product mills 313,4 80.0 59.5 65.1 67.2 69.8 -.1 -.6 -.7 1.5
Apparel and leather 315,6 77.7 60.3 68.7 67.2 67.2 -.6 -.2 -1.8 -1.3
Paper 322 86.8 79.2 82.2 81.6 81.3 .2 .1 .1 -.7
Printing and support 323 81.0 62.7 67.0 65.8 66.0 .7 1.1 1.6 2.3
Petroleum and coal products 324 85.6 77.5 82.8 85.2 83.3 .4 -.7 -1.1 -3.3
Chemicals 325 77.6 70.7 75.1 76.2 74.9 -.7 -1.4 -1.5 -2.7
Plastics and rubber products 326 82.2 65.0 72.7 72.6 73.8 2.4 .9 -4.9 -5.0
       
Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) 1133,5111 82.3 70.5 66.3 66.0 61.8 1.1 .4 1.0 .9
       
Mining 21 87.3 78.8 86.5 88.9 88.4 -.3 .6 -1.3 -3.7
Utilities 2211,2 86.2 81.3 82.7 79.2 77.7 .0 2.8 3.6 3.6
       
Selected high-technology industries   78.0 73.0 83.6 72.5 71.3 .4 1.8 -2.9 -1.3
Computers and peripheral equipment 3341 78.2 92.8 90.9 70.6 67.7 4.6 2.2 -10.2 -9.4
Communications equipment 3342 76.7 77.8 81.0 76.9 77.8 -.9 1.0 .1 -1.1
Semiconductors and related
electronic components
334412-9 79.9 66.7 83.1 71.7 70.4 .2 2.0 -2.4 .1
       
Measures excluding selected high-technology
industries
Total industry   80.3 69.6 75.3 77.3 77.7 .1 .2 -.7 -1.4
Manufacturing[1]   78.8 66.9 72.4 74.9 75.9 .2 -.3 -1.2 -1.5
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude   86.3 78.2 85.5 87.0 86.9 -.5 .5 -.9 -2.8
Primary and semifinished   81.0 67.4 74.0 74.6 75.5 .4 .8 -.1 -.3
Finished   77.1 69.5 73.2 75.5 75.8 .0 -.7 -1.7 -1.7

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



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Last update: March 22, 2013