Table B-11 - Estimated Measures of Reliability for Shipment Characteristics by Three-Digit Commodity for State of Origin: 2002
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Table B-11 - Estimated Measures of Reliability for Shipment Characteristics by Three-Digit Commodity for State of Origin: 2002
[Estimates are based on data from the Commodity Flow Survey. Because of rounding, estimates may not be additive]
| Code | Commodity (3-digit SCTG) | 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 |
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| All commodities | 14.5 | – | 13.4 | – | 19.1 | – | 9.6 | |
| 10 | Live animals and live fish | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 21 | Wheat | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 22 | Corn, except sweet | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 29 | Other cereal grains | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 31 | Fresh or chilled potatoes (Irish potatoes), except sweet | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 32 | Fresh or chilled edible vegetables, except potatoes (Irish potatoes) | 41.5 | – | 40.0 | – | 42.7 | – | 24.4 |
| 33 | Fresh, chilled, or dried edible fruit and nuts | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.4 |
| 34 | Soya beans | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 35 | Oil seeds and nuts, except olives and soya beans | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 36 | Bulbs, live plants, and seeds for sowing, nec | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 39 | Fresh-cut flowers, plants, and parts of plants, and other agricultural | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.2 |
| 41 | Cereal straw or husks, forage products, residues and waste from the food | S | S | S | S | S | S | 29.1 |
| 42 | Animal feed preparations | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.8 |
| 51 | Meat including poultry, except preparations | S | S | S | S | S | S | 24.8 |
| 52 | Fish, except live, and seafood, except preparations | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 53 | Preparations, extracts, and juices of meat, fish, or seafood | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 61 | Wheat flour, groats, and meal | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.2 |
| 62 | Malt, starches, inulin, wheat gluten, and milled or otherwise worked | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 63 | Food preparations of cereals, flour, starch, or milk | S | S | 46.8 | 0.1 | S | S | S |
| 64 | Bakery products | 29.9 | 0.4 | 25.4 | 0.3 | 39.6 | 0.3 | 23.8 |
| 71 | Dairy products, except chocolate milk, eggnog, and food preparations of milk | 37.8 | 0.3 | 28.9 | 0.4 | 40.4 | 1.2 | S |
| 72 | Processed or prepared vegetables, fruit, or nuts, except dried or milled, | 46.2 | 1.5 | 47.3 | 0.3 | 42.0 | 0.1 | S |
| 73 | Coffee, tea, and spices, except unprocessed coffee and unfermented tea | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 74 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products, prepared | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 75 | Cane, beet, and other sugars in solid form, sugar syrups not containing | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 76 | Confectionery, cocoa, and cocoa preparations | S | S | S | S | S | S | 28.8 |
| 77 | Edible preparations, necand vinegar | 42.2 | – | 40.3 | – | S | S | S |
| 78 | Nonalcoholic beverages, necand ice | 24.8 | 0.1 | 30.0 | 0.2 | 24.6 | – | S |
| 81 | Malt Beer | 23.4 | 0.1 | 23.1 | – | 31.6 | – | 16.0 |
| 82 | Wine and other fermented beverages | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 83 | Spirituous beverages and ethyl alcohol | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 90 | Tobacco products | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 100 | Monumental or building stone, except dolomite | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| 110 | Natural sands, except metal-bearing | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.8 |
| 120 | Gravel and crushed stone, except dolomite and slate | S | S | 41.1 | 0.9 | S | S | 33.1 |
| 131 | Salt | S | S | S | S | S | S | 26.3 |
| 132 | Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminum-calcium phosphates, and | S | S | S | S | S | S | 29.1 |
| 133 | Dolomite | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 139 | Other nonmetallic minerals | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.2 |
| 141 | Iron ores and concentrates | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 149 | Other metallic ores and concentrates | 40.6 | 0.2 | 49.0 | – | S | S | 29.9 |
| 151 | Nonagglomerated bituminous coal | 17.2 | 0.1 | 17.6 | 5.2 | 19.4 | 4.5 | S |
| 159 | Other coal | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 171 | Gasoline | 19.3 | 0.7 | 21.5 | 1.3 | 36.6 | 0.8 | 18.0 |
| 172 | Aviation turbine fuel (types A and B) | 34.4 | 0.1 | 31.6 | 0.2 | 44.4 | – | S |
| 180 | Fuel oils | 23.6 | 1.2 | 26.2 | 4.0 | 28.7 | 4.2 | 13.5 |
| 191 | Lubricating oils and greases | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| 192 | Refined petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, nec | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.4 |
| 193 | Gaseous hydrocarbons | 48.4 | – | 45.7 | 0.1 | S | S | 41.8 |
| 199 | Other products of petroleum refining, and coal products | 41.5 | – | S | S | 31.4 | 0.2 | S |
| 201 | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) | S | S | S | S | S | S | 29.9 |
| 202 | Inorganic chemicals, nec | S | S | S | S | S | S | 34.9 |
| 203 | Cyclic hydrocarbons | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 204 | Phenols, phenol-alcohols, aldehydes, cyclic polymers of aldehydes, | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.5 |
| 205 | Organic chemicals, nec | S | S | S | S | S | S | 27.2 |
| 210 | Pharmaceutical products | 34.8 | 1.7 | S | S | S | S | 30.1 |
| 220 | Fertilizers and fertilizer materials | S | S | S | S | S | S | 28.6 |
| 231 | Paints and varnishes, tanning or dyeing extracts, tannins and their | 49.5 | 0.1 | S | S | S | S | S |
| 232 | Essential oils and resinoids, and perfumery, cosmetic, or toilet preparations | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.4 |
| 233 | Soap, organic surface-active agents, cleaning preparations, polishes and | 35.7 | 0.4 | 37.3 | 0.6 | 43.4 | 1.5 | 23.9 |
| 234 | Photographic film, plates, paper, paperboard, or textiles, and chemical | S | S | S | S | S | S | 26.9 |
| 235 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbic | S | S | S | S | S | S | 29.8 |
| 239 | Other chemical products and preparations | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| 241 | Plastics in primary forms, rubber in primary forms or sheets, and | S | S | 42.1 | – | S | S | 33.1 |
| 242 | Manmade fibers and plastics basic shapes and articles | S | S | S | S | 35.7 | – | 44.8 |
| 243 | Rubber articles | 45.5 | 0.3 | 40.7 | – | 37.1 | – | 23.0 |
| 250 | Logs and other wood in the rough | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.1 |
| 261 | Wood chips or particles | S | S | S | S | S | S | 29.9 |
| 262 | Lumber, wood continuously shaped along any of its edges or faces, and | 22.3 | 0.3 | 44.4 | 0.5 | S | S | 41.6 |
| 263 | Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood, particle board, fiberboard, plywood, | 43.8 | 0.1 | 36.9 | 0.1 | S | S | 27.1 |
| 264 | Builders joinery and carpentry of wood, except shingles and shakes | 26.4 | – | 25.6 | – | S | S | 42.9 |
| 269 | Other wood products | 39.6 | – | S | S | S | S | 28.0 |
| 271 | Pulp of fibrous cellulosic materials | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 272 | Newsprint in large rolls or sheets | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 273 | Uncoated paper and paperboard in large rolls or sheets | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| 274 | Coated, impregnated, treated, or worked paper and paperboard, in large | 44.6 | 0.1 | 44.0 | – | S | S | S |
| 280 | Paper or paperboard articles | 21.9 | 0.4 | 18.8 | 0.2 | 23.6 | 0.4 | S |
| 291 | Printed books, brochures, leaflets, and similar printed products | 42.3 | 0.3 | 33.4 | – | 43.9 | – | 15.1 |
| 292 | Newspapers, journals, and periodicals | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.4 |
| 293 | Advertising material, commercial or trade catalogues, and similar printed | S | S | S | S | S | S | 23.7 |
| 299 | Other printed products | S | S | S | S | S | S | 18.0 |
| 301 | Textile fibers, yarns, and broadwoven or knitt | S | S | S | S | S | S | 24.6 |
| 302 | Textile clothing and accessories, and headgear, except safety | 45.1 | 1.0 | S | S | S | S | 11.6 |
| 303 | Textiles and textile articles, nec | S | S | S | S | S | S | 13.3 |
| 304 | Footwear | S | S | S | S | S | S | 26.7 |
| 305 | Leather and articles, luggage of related materials, and dressed furskins | 47.2 | 0.2 | S | S | S | S | 20.5 |
| 311 | Hydraulic cements | 35.8 | – | 36.7 | 0.4 | 43.4 | 0.3 | 22.7 |
| 312 | Ceramic products | 33.0 | – | S | S | 39.7 | – | 47.3 |
| 313 | Glass and glass products | S | S | S | S | S | S | 34.6 |
| 319 | Other nonmetallic mineral products | S | S | S | S | S | S | 25.6 |
| 321 | Iron and steel in primary forms, in semifinished forms, or in powders or | 42.5 | 0.4 | S | S | S | S | 34.3 |
| 322 | Flat-rolled products of iron or steel | 22.6 | 0.1 | 23.9 | 0.1 | 41.8 | – | 36.7 |
| 323 | Bars, rods, angles, shapes, sections, and wire, of iron or steel | 25.4 | 0.5 | 33.9 | 0.8 | 33.2 | 0.8 | 39.0 |
| 324 | Nonferrous metal, except precious, in unwrought forms, in finished basic | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| 331 | Pipes, tubes, and fittings | 40.4 | 0.4 | 22.1 | 0.1 | 24.0 | 0.1 | 22.8 |
| 332 | Structures and parts, except prefabricated buildings | 42.3 | 0.4 | S | S | 49.0 | 0.3 | S |
| 333 | Handtools, cutlery, except of precious metals, interchangeable tools for | 28.6 | 0.2 | 45.0 | – | 45.7 | – | S |
| 339 | Other articles of metal | S | S | S | S | S | S | 19.2 |
| 341 | Internal-combustion piston engines | S | S | S | S | S | S | 28.2 |
| 342 | Turbines, boilers, nuclear reactors, and nonelectric engines and motors, | 38.9 | 0.3 | S | S | 40.8 | – | 29.6 |
| 343 | Pumps, compressors, and fans, and ventilating or recycling hoods | 49.5 | 0.3 | S | S | 48.6 | – | 24.6 |
| 344 | Air-conditioning, refrigerating, or freezing equipment | S | S | S | S | S | S | 43.0 |
| 345 | Materials-handling, excavating, boring, and related machinery and equipment | 37.9 | 0.5 | S | S | S | S | 23.6 |
| 349 | Other machinery | 11.0 | 0.2 | 48.9 | – | 41.9 | 0.1 | 18.2 |
| 351 | Electric motors, generators, generating sets, rotary converters, | S | S | S | S | S | S | 29.9 |
| 352 | Electric cooking appliances and other electrothermic or electromechanical | S | S | S | S | S | S | 28.1 |
| 353 | Line telephone or telegraph apparatus | S | S | S | S | 49.3 | – | 33.2 |
| 354 | Electronic entertainment products, except parts | 44.1 | – | 49.4 | – | 48.9 | – | 22.3 |
| 355 | Computer and office equipment | 37.8 | 0.2 | 47.1 | – | 43.4 | 0.4 | 16.0 |
| 356 | Prepared unrecorded or prerecorded media | 45.2 | – | S | S | S | S | 23.4 |
| 357 | Transmission apparatus for radio or television broadcasting, radio | S | S | 43.6 | – | S | S | 25.6 |
| 358 | Electronic components and parts | 45.2 | 0.8 | 29.2 | – | 31.3 | – | 12.1 |
| 359 | Other electronic and electrical equipment | 31.7 | 0.4 | S | S | S | S | 28.3 |
| 361 | Motor vehicles for the transport of less than | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.5 |
| 362 | Motor vehicles for the transport of goods and road tractors for | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| 363 | Other vehicles | 34.2 | 0.2 | 35.6 | – | 32.8 | 0.1 | 31.6 |
| 364 | Parts and accessories for motor vehicles, except motorcycles and armored | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| 371 | Locomotives and rolling stock, railway track fixtures and fittings, | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 372 | Aircraft and spacecraft | S | S | S | S | 36.7 | – | 9.2 |
| 373 | Ships, boats, and floating structures | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.6 |
| 381 | Optical elements, instruments, and apparatus, except photographic and | 37.8 | 0.5 | 36.6 | – | 36.5 | – | 21.6 |
| 382 | Photographic and photocopying machines | S | S | S | S | S | S | 27.6 |
| 383 | Surveying,hydrographic, oceanographic, hydro | 48.1 | 0.2 | S | S | 49.4 | – | 25.2 |
| 384 | Instruments, apparatus, and appliances for medical, surgical, dental, or | 31.7 | 0.7 | S | S | S | S | 24.1 |
| 385 | Meters and other instruments and apparatus for | 21.6 | – | 32.5 | – | 47.5 | – | 22.2 |
| 390 | Furniture, mattresses and mattress supports, lamps, lighting fittings, and | 41.5 | 0.3 | 47.3 | – | S | S | 19.1 |
| 401 | Arms and ammunition | S | S | S | S | S | S | 34.7 |
| 402 | Toys, games, and sporting equipment | 27.8 | 0.4 | 35.6 | – | 34.1 | 0.2 | 14.3 |
| 409 | Miscellaneous manufactured products | 22.9 | 1.4 | 38.7 | 0.2 | 33.7 | 0.3 | 13.9 |
| 411 | Metallic waste and scrap | S | S | S | S | S | S | 31.5 |
| 412 | Nonmetallic waste and scrap, except from food processing | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.9 |
| 439 | Mixed freight | 15.2 | 2.6 | 12.6 | 0.4 | 15.0 | 0.6 | 39.7 |
| -- | Commodity unknown | S | S | S | S | S | S | 17.8 |
KEY:
– Represents data cell
equal to zero or less than 1 unit of measure.
S Estimate does not meet publication standards because of high 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, Individual State Data, December 2004.