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90-Percent Confidence Intervals for 1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: Kansas

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

90-Percent Confidence Intervals for 1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: Kansas

Tabulation by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation

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Summary Value Weight
Total shipments originating in Kansas (in billion $ and million tons) 63.66 - 77.34 122.11 - 146.89
Percent of total U.S. shipments (preliminary U.S. estimate) 1.05 - 1.28 1.23 - 1.49

Commodity Shipments Originating in Kansas Ranked by Value

Commodity Percent of value
Food or kindred products 19.5 - 29.3
Transportation equipment 7.2 - 15.5
Petroleum or coal products 5.1 - 8.6
Rubber or miscellaneous plastic products . 3.1 - 10.3
Farm products 5.3 - 7.9
Other commodities (NA)
Total (X)

Commodity Shipments Originating in Kansas Ranked by Weight

Commodity Percent of weight
Farm products 19.6 - 30.5
Petroleum or coal products 15.0 - 29.2
Nonmetallic minerals 12.5 - 26.1
Food or kindred products 10.9 - 18.1
Clay, concrete, glass, or stone products 4.9 - 8.2
Other commodities (NA)
Total (X)

Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in Kansas Ranked by Value

State Percent of value
Kansas 22.0 - 28.6
Missouri 9.3 - 13.3
Texas 7.2 - 9.8
California 5.2 - 7.8
Washington 1.2 - 6.8
Oklahoma 2.9 - 4.3
Other States (NA)
Total (X)

Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in Kansas Ranked by Weight

State Percent of weight
Kansas 50.7 - 56.9
Missouri 8.3 - 12.3
Texas 8.8 - 16.0
Oklahoma 4.1 - 9.7
Louisiana 0.6 - 3.6
Arkansas 0.9 - 2.3
Other States (NA)
Total (X)

Modes of Transportation for Shipments Originating in Kansas

Modes Percent of value Percent of weight
Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or courier service 6.4 - 10.4 (X)
Truck (for-hire, private, and both private truck and for-hire truck) 70.2 - 79.8 68.3 - 74.5
Air (including truck and air) 1.6 - 2.2 (X)
Rail 5.9 - 12.8 17.2 - 24.1
Water (inland water, Great Lakes, deep sea, truck and water, and rail and water) (X) (X)
Pipeline* 0.5 - 1.9 1.9 - 5.9
Truck and rail intermodal combination 0.2 - 0.6 0.1 - 0.5
Other intermodal (truck and pipeline, inland and Gt. Lakes, inland and deep sea) (X) (X)
Other, unknown, and withheld for sampling and disclosure reasons 3.0 - 4.6 2.8 - 4.4
Total (X) (X)

Domestic Distance Shipped for Commodities Originating in Kansas

Distance Percent of value Percent of weight
Less than 50 miles 17.4 - 23.4 39.2 - 46.1
50 to 99 miles 5.7 - 8.3 9.9 - 15.5
100 to 249 miles 12.7 - 15.0 14.8 - 18.1
250 to 499 miles 12.2 - 15.2 8.5 - 10.8
500 to 749 miles 12.9 - 16.5 8.1 - 15.0
750 to 999 miles 7.0 - 8.6 1.8 - 5.1
1,000 to 1,499 miles 17.7 - 26.3 3.1 - 4.1
1,500 to 1,999 miles 0.1 - 0.5 (X)
2,000 miles or more (X) (X)
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).