90-Percent Confidence Intervals for 1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: Delaware
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90-Percent Confidence Intervals for 1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: Delaware
Tabulation by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation
| Summary | Value | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Total shipments originating in Delaware (in billion $ and million tons) | 13.03 - 19.17 | 12.07 - 36.53 |
| Percent of total U.S. shipments (preliminary U.S. estimate) | 0.22 - 0.32 | 0.12 - 0.37 |
Commodity Shipments Originating in Delaware Ranked by Value
| Commodity | Percent of value |
|---|---|
| Chemicals or allied products | 13.2 - 29.0 |
| Transportation equipment | 4.6 - 29.6 |
| Food or kindred products | 9.0 - 14.9 |
| Apparel or other finished textile products | 1.8 - 14.3 |
| Textile mill products | 1.1 - 8.0 |
| Other commodities | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Commodity Shipments Originating in Delaware Ranked by Weight
| Commodity | Percent of weight |
|---|---|
| Food or kindred products | 4.0 - 19.6 |
| Clay, concrete, glass, or stone products | 1.4 - 18.6 |
| Nonmetallic minerals | 2.2 - 15.5 |
| Lumber or wood products, excluding furniture | 1.1 - 8.3 |
| Primary metal products | 1.3 - 5.4 |
| Other commodities | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in Delaware Ranked by Value
| State | Percent of value |
|---|---|
| Delaware | 11.5 - 18.1 |
| Pennsylvania | 11.7 - 19.6 |
| New Jersey | 5.9 - 12.1 |
| New York | 5.9 - 9.5 |
| Massachusetts | 3.9 - 7.9 |
| Maryland | 4.4 - 7.4 |
| Other States | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in Delaware Ranked by Weight
| State | Percent of weight |
|---|---|
| Delaware | 19.1 - 36.5 |
| Pennsylvania | 20.8 - 39.2 |
| Maryland | 4.3 - 15.9 |
| New Jersey | 3.5 - 8.5 |
| Virginia | 1.7 - 9.9 |
| New York | 0.7 - 3.3 |
| Other States | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Modes of Transportation for Shipments Originating in Delaware
| Modes | Percent of value | Percent of weight | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or courier service | 2.4 - 5.4 | (X) | |
| Truck (for-hire, private, and both private truck and for-hire truck) | 65.1 - 75.5 | 51.3 - 72.1 | |
| Air (including truck and air) | 0.6 - 2.9 | (X) | |
| Rail | 1.4 - 3.7 | 2.2 - 9.1 | |
| Water (inland water, Great Lakes, deep sea, truck and water, and rail and water) | (X) | (X) | |
| Pipeline* | (X) | (X) | |
| Truck and rail intermodal combination | 5.1 - 18.5 | 0.0 - 1.6 | |
| Other intermodal (truck and pipeline, inland and Gt. Lakes, inland and deep sea) | (X) | (X) | |
| Other, unknown, and withheld for sampling and disclosure reasons | 9.1 - 10.5 | (X) | |
| Total | (X) | (X) | |
Domestic Distance Shipped for Commodities Originating in Delaware
| Distance | Percent of value | Percent of weight |
|---|---|---|
| Less than 50 miles | 21.2 - 34.0 | 49.3 - 67.7 |
| 50 to 99 miles | 8.3 - 13.9 | 6.9 - 13.8 |
| 100 to 249 miles | 15.2 - 21.4 | 9.4 - 24.2 |
| 250 to 499 miles | 14.8 - 22.7 | (X) |
| 500 to 749 miles | 6.5 - 11.1 | 1.0 - 4.0 |
| 750 to 999 miles | 2.9 - 6.9 | 1.1 - 2.5 |
| 1,000 to 1,499 miles | 3.1 - 6.1 | 0.1 - 1.5 |
| 1,500 to 1,999 miles | (X) | 0.0 - 0.3 |
| 2,000 miles or more | 3.1 - 6.7 | 0.3 - 0.9 |
| Total | (X) | (X) |
* CFS data for pipelines exclude most shipments of crude oil.
NA Not available.
X Not applicable.
NOTE: For explanation of 90-percent confidence intervals see Appendix B, "Reliability of the Data," in source document.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1992 Census of Transportation, Communications, and Utilities, 1993 Commodity Flow Survey, TC92-CF (Washington, DC: 1996).