Table B-5b. Estimated Measures of Reliability for Hazardous Material Shipment Characteristics by Selected State of Destination: 2002
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Table B-5b. Estimated Measures of Reliability for Hazardous Material Shipment Characteristics by Selected State of Destination: 2002
[Estimates are shown as percents and are based on data from the 2002 Commodity Flow Survey]
| State of destination | Value | Tons | Ton-miles | CV of average miles per shipment |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CV | Std. error of percent | CV | Std. error of percent | CV | Std. error of percent | ||
| Total | 3.0 | – | 4.2 | – | 4.4 | – | 7.1 |
| Texas | 13.3 | 1.9 | 16.4 | 2.6 | 9.4 | 1.5 | 22.0 |
| California | 8.1 | 1.0 | 10.3 | 1.1 | 18.1 | 1.7 | 22.0 |
| Louisiana | 11.5 | 0.6 | 11.0 | 0.7 | 26.4 | 1.1 | 23.5 |
| Ohio | 11.0 | 0.5 | 18.9 | 0.8 | 20.1 | 1.1 | 35.1 |
| Illinois | 13.7 | 0.6 | 15.5 | 0.6 | 25.1 | 1.2 | S |
| Florida | 10.2 | 0.5 | 9.7 | 0.5 | 18.9 | 1.5 | 13.6 |
| New Jersey | 16.8 | 0.6 | 25.7 | 1.0 | 35.2 | 1.6 | S |
| Michigan | 10.6 | 0.4 | 15.6 | 0.5 | 10.9 | 0.3 | 37.7 |
| Indiana | 18.6 | 0.6 | 27.9 | 0.9 | 11.9 | 0.2 | 46.9 |
| Pennsylvania | 11.1 | 0.3 | 13.6 | 0.3 | 9.3 | 0.1 | 35.2 |
| Tennessee | 17.5 | 0.4 | 25.6 | 0.5 | 22.4 | 0.5 | 23.5 |
| New York | 16.0 | 0.4 | 22.5 | 0.5 | 24.0 | 0.8 | 27.6 |
| Georgia | 9.1 | 0.2 | 15.8 | 0.4 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 26.3 |
| Washington | 11.8 | 0.3 | 12.9 | 0.3 | 18.5 | 0.4 | 47.1 |
| Kentucky | 13.1 | 0.2 | 16.5 | 0.3 | 19.3 | 0.6 | S |
| Mississippi | 12.8 | 0.2 | 13.7 | 0.2 | 14.4 | 0.2 | S |
| North Carolina | 14.7 | 0.4 | 16.6 | 0.3 | 13.3 | 0.2 | 43.1 |
| Alabama | 15.5 | 0.2 | 16.1 | 0.2 | 11.5 | 0.1 | 43.4 |
| Utah | 16.5 | 0.2 | 21.0 | 0.3 | 19.1 | 0.1 | 27.2 |
| Missouri | 12.9 | 0.2 | 14.0 | 0.2 | 11.7 | 0.1 | 45.6 |
| All other states | 4.2 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 6.7 | 1.0 | 8.7 |
KEY:
– Represents an estimate equal to zero or less than
1 unit of measure.
S Estimate does not meet publication standards because of highly sampling
variability or poor response quality.
CV Coefficient of variation of number
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SOURCE: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (USDOT) and U.S. Census Bureau, 2002 Commodity Flow Survey, Hazmat Data, December 2004.