90-Percent Confidence Intervals for 1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: North Dakota
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
90-Percent Confidence Intervals for 1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: North Dakota
Tabulation by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation
| Summary | Value | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Total shipments originating in North Dakota (in billion $ and million tons) | 9.19 - 11.81 | 45.60 - 76.00 |
| Percent of total U.S. shipments (preliminary U.S. estimate) | 0.15 - 0.20 | 0.46 - 0.77 |
Commodity Shipments Originating in North Dakota Ranked by Value
| Commodity | Percent of value |
|---|---|
| Farm products | 18.5 - 33.1 |
| Food or kindred products | 19.3 - 31.3 |
| Machinery, including computers | 8.4 - 12.9 |
| Petroleum or coal products | 4.5 - 14.0 |
| Chemicals or allied products | 3.5 - 6.4 |
| Other commodities | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Commodity Shipments Originating in North Dakota Ranked by Weight
| Commodity | Percent of weight |
|---|---|
| Farm products | 19.6 - 43.4 |
| Petroleum or coal products | 8.1 - 19.4 |
| Food or kindred products | 4.7 - 8.4 |
| Nonmetallic minerals | 0.7 - 5.9 |
| Clay, concrete, glass, or stone products | 1.3 - 3.2 |
| Other commodities | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in North Dakota Ranked by Value
| State | Percent of value |
|---|---|
| North Dakota | 33.4 - 41.6 |
| Minnesota | 22.6 - 32.2 |
| Wisconsin | 2.3 - 4.3 |
| Texas | 2.1 - 4.4 |
| South Dakota | 2.3 - 3.9 |
| Illinois | 1.6 - 3.6 |
| Other States | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in North Dakota Ranked by Weight
| State | Percent of weight |
|---|---|
| North Dakota | 45.4 - 66.8 |
| Minnesota | 15.5 - 28.0 |
| South Dakota | 0.3 - 11.9 |
| Wisconsin | 0.0 - 5.7 |
| Oregon | 0.1 - 3.1 |
| Texas | 0.0 - 3.4 |
| Other States | (NA) |
| Total | (X) |
Modes of Transportation for Shipments Originating in North Dakota
| Modes | Percent of value | Percent of weight | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or courier service | 4.7 - 6.7 | (X) | |
| Truck (for-hire, private, and both private truck and for-hire truck) | 57.6 - 68.8 | 23.3 - 33.9 | |
| Air (including truck and air) | (X) | (X) | |
| Rail | 16.5 - 22.5 | 23.7 - 47.7 | |
| Water (inland water, Great Lakes, deep sea, truck and water, and rail and water) | (X) | (X) | |
| Pipeline* | (X) | (X) | |
| Truck and rail intermodal combination | (X) | (X) | |
| Other intermodal (truck and pipeline, inland and Gt. Lakes, inland and deep sea) | (X) | (X) | |
| Other, unknown, and withheld for sampling and disclosure reasons | 9.4 - 13.6 | 21.1 - 50.1 | |
| Total | (X) | (X) | |
Domestic Distance Shipped for Commodities Originating in North Dakota
| Distance | Percent of value | Percent of weight |
|---|---|---|
| Less than 50 miles | 18.7 - 25.3 | 31.5 - 57.9 |
| 50 to 99 miles | 10.3 - 15.5 | 0.0 - 19.0 |
| 100 to 249 miles | 21.6 - 28.5 | 11.1 - 18.0 |
| 250 to 499 miles | 9.7 - 15.7 | 10.5 - 24.3 |
| 500 to 749 miles | 6.8 - 10.1 | 1.3 - 8.9 |
| 750 to 999 miles | 4.2 - 6.5 | (X) |
| 1,000 to 1,499 miles | 10.7 - 15.7 | 3.7 - 10.3 |
| 1,500 to 1,999 miles | 0.4 - 0.8 | (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).