Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

Annual Revision (400 KB PDF) (ASCII)

Release Date: March 30, 2012

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-
2011
Ave.

2008
Q4

2009
Q4

2010
Q4
 
2011 
Q4 

2008
Q4

2009
Q4

2010
Q4

2011
Q4
Total industry   80.3 73.2 69.5 75.4 77.7 -.3 -.8 -.7 -.4
       
Manufacturing[1]   78.8 69.7 67.0 73.1 76.0 -.4 -.8 -.2 .2
Manufacturing (NAICS) 31-33 78.7 69.4 66.8 73.4 76.5 -.4 -.8 -.2 .2
       
Durable manufacturing   77.1 67.8 62.5 70.9 75.0 -.2 -.7 .2 .0
Wood products 321 77.6 59.8 55.0 60.6 64.1 1.6 .4 -.2 -.2
Nonmetallic mineral products 327 75.2 52.5 44.9 52.2 54.7 -2.0 -1.6 .5 .7
Primary metal 331 79.2 63.4 61.0 70.1 75.5 -1.1 -.6 1.4 -.4
Fabricated metal products 332 77.3 74.2 62.8 74.4 80.0 .3 .9 1.5 -.8
Machinery 333 78.1 76.0 62.7 75.4 81.0 -1.0 .4 1.2 -.4
Computer and electronic products 334 78.2 72.7 70.3 79.7 77.8 .5 -.9 1.1 1.8
Electrical equip., appliances,
and components
335 82.6 79.5 67.4 78.2 79.9 -.4 -.2 2.1 3.2
Motor vehicles and parts 3361-3 75.0 49.2 52.5 60.6 69.3 .3 -1.5 -.7 2.9
Aerospace and miscellaneous
transportation equipment
3364-9 73.1 72.7 70.3 70.6 76.7 -.4 -1.2 -.6 -3.1
Furniture and related products 337 77.1 66.9 58.2 64.0 67.6 -1.3 -2.2 -2.6 -2.9
Miscellaneous 339 76.1 72.9 71.4 76.9 77.0 .1 .1 .3 -2.2
       
Nondurable manufacturing   80.9 71.2 72.1 76.5 78.2 -.7 -.8 -.5 .6
Food, beverage, and tobacco products 311,2 81.1 76.4 76.1 77.4 79.1 -.1 .2 -1.5 1.8
Textile and product mills 313,4 80.3 62.5 59.6 65.6 67.8 -1.2 1.5 1.6 -.1
Apparel and leather 315,6 78.0 71.4 60.9 68.8 69.0 -2.5 -2.2 -.3 -.6
Paper 322 86.9 75.1 79.0 82.2 81.5 .1 -.5 -1.0 -.6
Printing and support 323 81.6 67.1 62.1 65.9 63.9 -2.2 -1.8 1.9 1.1
Petroleum and coal products 324 85.7 80.3 77.1 83.5 86.3 -1.5 -2.0 -2.0 -2.1
Chemical 325 77.7 67.0 71.3 76.6 77.6 -1.3 -1.8 .2 -.1
Plastics and rubber products 326 82.2 64.9 62.6 71.8 77.5 .3 -.2 .1 1.7
       
Other manufacturing (non-NAICS) 1133,5111 82.7 76.2 69.4 65.9 65.3 .0 -.5 -.6 -1.5
       
Mining 21 87.3 87.5 79.1 85.9 89.5 -.2 -1.1 -3.2 -3.0
Utilities 2211,2 86.3 83.1 81.3 79.8 75.6 .2 -.2 -1.3 -2.2
       
Selected high-technology industries   78.2 75.1 72.7 81.8 75.1 -1.7 -1.4 2.9 4.6
Computers and peripheral equipment 3341 78.4 72.9 88.2 88.7 81.4 -7.1 -5.1 5.3 4.0
Communications equipment 3342 76.6 85.7 78.7 80.0 76.6 .9 -2.2 4.3 4.2
Semiconductors and related
electronic components
334412-9 80.2 72.6 66.4 81.1 73.6 -.1 .6 2.5 5.5
       
Measures excluding selected high-technology
industries
Total industry   80.4 73.2 69.4 75.2 77.8 -.3 -.8 -.8 -.6
Manufacturing[1]   78.9 69.4 66.7 72.7 76.1 -.4 -.7 -.3 .0
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude   86.3 83.1 78.7 85.0 87.3 -.5 -1.7 -2.1 -3.0
Primary and semifinished   81.1 71.7 67.0 73.2 74.6 -.3 -.6 .0 -.1
Finished   77.2 70.7 69.6 73.9 77.1 -.3 -.6 -1.0 .1

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



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Last update: March 30, 2012