Table B-13. Estimated Measures of Reliability for Shipment Characteristics by Four-Digit Commodity: 2002
Table B-13. Estimated Measures of Reliability for Shipment Characteristics by Four-Digit Commodity: 2002
[Estimates are based on data from the 2002 Commodity Flow Survey]
Code | SCTG Commodity description (4-Digit) | Value | Tons | Ton-miles | Average miles per shipment coefficient of variation | |||
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Coefficient of variation of number | Standard error of percent | Coefficient of variation of number | Standard error of percent | Coefficient of variation of number | Standard error of percent | |||
All commodities | 1.3 | – | 2.0 | – | 3.7 | – | 2.9 | |
100 | Live animals and live fish | 21.1 | – | 24.5 | – | 26.0 | – | 18.3 |
210 | Wheat | 11.4 | – | 10.9 | 0.1 | 12.2 | 0.2 | 17.3 |
220 | Corn, except sweet | 9.7 | – | 10.0 | 0.3 | 23.4 | 1.2 | 17.5 |
290 | Other cereal grains | 17.4 | – | 17.6 | 0.1 | 24.6 | 0.2 | 15.6 |
310 | Fresh or chilled potatoes (Irish potatoes), except sweet | 19.5 | – | 21.9 | – | 34.7 | – | 32.7 |
321 | Fresh or chilled vegetables, except potatoes (Irish potatoes) | 14.8 | – | 16.4 | – | 23.7 | 0.1 | 39.3 |
322 | Dried vegetables | 26.2 | – | 33.3 | – | 35.5 | – | 14.2 |
331 | Fresh or chilled citrus fruit | 44.5 | – | 36.8 | – | S | S | 18.0 |
332 | Fresh or chilled edible fruit, except citrus | 38.5 | – | 48.2 | – | 30.9 | – | 17.8 |
333 | Dried fruit | S | S | S | S | S | S | 22.6 |
334 | Fresh or dried nuts | 35.5 | – | 36.8 | – | 44.7 | – | 14.1 |
340 | Soya beans | 8.9 | – | 8.6 | 0.1 | 14.6 | 0.3 | 18.9 |
350 | Oil seeds and nuts, except olives and soya beans | 35.5 | – | 31.1 | – | 46.1 | – | 21.9 |
360 | Bulbs, live plants, and seeds for sowing nec | 17.5 | – | 29.3 | – | 39.3 | – | 13.2 |
391 | Fresh-cut flowers | 31.4 | – | 27.1 | – | S | S | S |
392 | Unmanufactured tobacco | 30.8 | – | 31.3 | – | S | S | 16.3 |
393 | Raw cotton not carded or combed | 26.5 | – | 29.0 | – | 24.8 | – | 34.3 |
399 | Other | 28.1 | – | 45.9 | – | 47.9 | – | 18.0 |
411 | Cereal straw or husks and forage products | S | S | S | S | 35.0 | – | S |
412 | Inedible flours, meals, and pellets of meat, fish, or seafood, and greaves | 23.6 | – | 19.8 | – | 30.5 | – | 24.1 |
413 | Bran, sharps, and other residues of cereals or leguminous plants | 22.5 | – | 33.0 | – | 40.0 | – | 24.4 |
414 | Oil cake and other solid residues from the man | 16.3 | – | 17.1 | – | 15.9 | – | 14.2 |
419 | Other | 18.8 | – | 37.4 | – | 26.6 | – | S |
421 | Dog or cat food put up for retail sale | 21.4 | – | 27.4 | – | 23.6 | – | 13.2 |
429 | Other, including complete feeds, premixes, bird seed, fish food, and feed | 17.1 | – | 21.4 | 0.2 | 15.7 | 0.1 | 24.3 |
511 | Fresh, chilled, or frozen, except poultry | 7.0 | – | 6.7 | – | 7.2 | – | 18.7 |
512 | Fresh, chilled, or frozen poultry | 7.9 | – | 8.7 | – | 12.2 | – | 17.3 |
513 | Meat, salted, in brine, dried, or smoked, edible flours and meals, and pig | 17.5 | – | 17.3 | – | 19.1 | – | 42.1 |
520 | Fish, except live, and seafood, except preparations | 13.2 | – | 10.8 | – | 18.8 | – | 32.8 |
531 | Of meat, including poultry | 26.6 | – | 42.2 | – | S | S | 43.2 |
532 | Of fish or seafood | 39.6 | – | S | S | 47.4 | – | 28.0 |
610 | Wheat flour, groats, and meal | 19.2 | – | 22.4 | – | 21.5 | – | 17.1 |
621 | Malt | S | S | S | S | S | S | 25.7 |
629 | Other | 16.8 | – | 15.9 | – | 19.6 | – | 14.3 |
631 | Pasta, including stuffed, canned, frozen, or dried, and couscous | 22.4 | – | 31.0 | – | 34.8 | – | 18.0 |
632 | Breakfast cereal foods, rice cakes, and similar prepared foods | 29.1 | – | 21.4 | – | 22.0 | – | 8.2 |
639 | Other | 13.3 | – | 21.6 | – | 10.9 | – | 10.1 |
641 | Baked snack foods | 23.6 | – | 21.0 | – | 24.6 | – | S |
642 | Frozen baked products | 15.1 | – | 16.6 | – | 22.7 | – | 11.2 |
643 | Perishable or dry baked products | 12.8 | – | 23.2 | – | 14.8 | – | 27.8 |
711 | Milk and cream | 18.3 | – | 19.2 | – | 18.2 | – | 11.8 |
712 | Cheese and curds | 13.4 | – | 12.3 | – | 13.0 | – | 15.1 |
713 | Ice cream or ice milk and their novelties, water ices, and sherbets | 26.3 | – | 23.8 | – | 28.1 | – | 38.0 |
719 | Other | 18.2 | – | 36.3 | – | 17.7 | – | 46.1 |
721 | Frozen vegetables and vegetable preparations | 29.4 | – | 26.5 | – | 27.5 | – | 15.5 |
722 | Processed or prepared vegetables, except frozen, dried, or milled | 15.0 | – | 17.3 | – | 21.7 | 0.1 | 25.0 |
723 | Processed or prepared fruit and nuts, except dried | 18.8 | – | 18.4 | – | 24.2 | – | 20.6 |
724 | Juices, except those fortified with vitamins or minerals, but including | 12.9 | – | 14.4 | – | 21.4 | – | S |
730 | Coffee, tea, and spices, except unprocessed coffee and unfermented tea | 21.5 | – | 26.0 | – | 33.7 | – | 17.9 |
741 | Animal fats and oils and their fractions, not chemically modified | 45.8 | – | S | S | 36.2 | – | 19.3 |
742 | Fixed vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, not chemically modified | 15.5 | – | 12.3 | – | 17.7 | – | 8.7 |
743 | Chemically modified fats and oils, prepared edible fats, and animal or | 27.6 | – | 27.6 | – | 26.8 | – | 27.5 |
744 | Flours and meals of oil seeds, except of mustard | 19.3 | – | 20.8 | – | 12.2 | – | 14.7 |
750 | Cane, beet, and other sugars in solid form, sugar syrups not containing | 11.6 | – | 17.4 | – | 23.0 | 0.2 | 10.5 |
761 | Confectionery | 9.2 | – | 11.0 | – | 10.4 | – | 14.2 |
762 | Cocoa beans, paste, butter, and powder, and cocoa preparations | 39.6 | – | 48.5 | – | 38.0 | – | 17.9 |
771 | Sauces, mixed condiments and seasonings, prepared mustard, and mustard | 14.2 | – | 16.5 | – | 19.0 | – | 10.3 |
772 | Soups and broths and their preparations and baby or dietetic food | 23.8 | – | 28.2 | – | 40.8 | – | 16.0 |
773 | Syrups and concentrates, and flavoring powders, extracts, or essences | 18.8 | – | 15.1 | – | 16.8 | – | 15.0 |
779 | Other | 20.2 | – | 26.2 | – | 24.1 | – | 11.8 |
781 | Sweetened or flavored water | 9.4 | – | 10.1 | 0.1 | 14.4 | – | 32.2 |
789 | Other | 15.9 | – | 20.6 | – | 34.2 | – | 46.3 |
810 | Malt beer | 5.7 | – | 5.9 | – | 18.6 | – | 10.3 |
820 | Wine and other fermented beverages | 8.8 | – | 12.5 | – | 17.0 | – | 15.2 |
831 | Undenatured ethyl alcohol of a strength by volume of 80 percent volume or | 17.9 | – | 18.1 | – | 24.2 | – | S |
832 | Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than | 9.0 | – | 8.6 | – | 15.3 | – | 6.9 |
901 | Cigarettes | 17.3 | 0.1 | 34.1 | – | 47.8 | – | 13.3 |
909 | Other | 13.6 | – | 25.8 | – | 20.5 | – | 14.3 |
1001 | Calcareous monumental or building stone | 41.4 | – | S | S | 46.4 | – | 26.6 |
1002 | Monumental or building stone, except calcareous and dolomite | 33.4 | – | 28.9 | – | 19.5 | – | 18.2 |
1101 | Silica sands and quartz sands, for construction use | 9.9 | – | 9.5 | 0.3 | 17.7 | 0.1 | 9.3 |
1102 | Silica sands and quartz sands, for uses other than construction, and other | 8.2 | – | 11.2 | 0.1 | 9.9 | – | 25.3 |
1201 | Limestone and chalk (calcium carbonate) | 10.1 | – | 13.7 | 0.8 | 10.7 | 0.1 | 10.7 |
1202 | Gravel and crushed stone, except dolomite, slate, and limestone | 9.5 | – | 10.7 | 0.8 | 13.9 | 0.2 | 9.4 |
1310 | Salt | 35.6 | – | 28.1 | – | 32.9 | 0.1 | 14.5 |
1320 | Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminum-calcium phosphates, and | 19.8 | – | 32.5 | – | 27.2 | – | 33.8 |
1330 | Dolomite | 24.9 | – | 27.1 | 0.2 | 45.5 | 0.3 | 39.5 |
1391 | Sulphur, except sublimed, precipitated, and colloidal | 39.7 | – | 41.4 | – | S | S | 34.9 |
1392 | Clays | 21.6 | – | 17.2 | – | 13.0 | – | 13.2 |
1399 | Other | 13.3 | – | 20.9 | – | 29.9 | 0.1 | 23.4 |
1410 | Iron ores and concentrates | 15.4 | – | 14.9 | 0.1 | 20.2 | 0.4 | 13.2 |
1491 | Copper | 26.5 | – | 22.8 | – | 31.0 | – | 35.3 |
1499 | Other | 19.3 | – | 43.7 | – | 38.3 | – | 13.9 |
1510 | Nonagglomerated bituminous coal | 8.2 | – | 9.1 | 0.8 | 16.9 | 2.4 | 8.5 |
1591 | Nonagglomerated anthracite | S | S | S | S | S | S | 24.4 |
1592 | Nonagglomerated lignite, except jet | 17.3 | – | 17.7 | 0.1 | 41.1 | – | 39.1 |
1593 | Agglomerated coal | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
1710 | Gasoline | 4.8 | 0.2 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 10.7 | 0.4 | 10.3 |
1720 | Aviation turbine fuel (types A and B) | 16.1 | – | 17.2 | 0.1 | 22.3 | – | 18.0 |
1800 | Fuel oils | 6.0 | – | 6.0 | 0.3 | 10.1 | 0.2 | 13.5 |
1910 | Lubricating oils and greases containing by weight 70 percent or more of | 13.8 | – | 16.6 | – | 25.0 | – | 25.8 |
1920 | Refined petroleum oils and oils obtained from | 14.6 | – | 16.7 | 0.1 | 22.7 | – | 30.1 |
1931 | Liquefied natural gas | 35.0 | – | S | S | 37.1 | – | 18.6 |
1932 | Liquefied gaseous hydrocarbons, except liquefied natural gas | 15.4 | – | 14.4 | – | 19.7 | 0.1 | 35.4 |
1933 | Gaseous hydrocarbons in a gaseous state | 45.2 | – | S | S | 45.4 | – | S |
1991 | Coal coke, petroleum coke, and retort carbon | 22.5 | – | 24.0 | 0.1 | 44.7 | 0.3 | S |
1992 | Petroleum asphalt | 28.0 | – | 26.3 | 0.1 | 20.0 | – | 29.0 |
1993 | Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, natural bitumen, petroleum | 21.9 | – | 27.4 | 0.3 | 19.9 | – | 46.4 |
1999 | Other | 18.3 | – | 21.5 | – | 26.6 | – | 13.2 |
2010 | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) | 10.8 | – | 13.7 | – | 15.2 | – | 18.8 |
2021 | Sublimed, precipitated, or colloidal sulphur | 36.5 | – | 12.0 | – | 17.0 | – | 16.6 |
2022 | Inorganic acids, except nitric and phosphoric | 23.3 | – | 16.9 | – | 29.5 | – | 16.9 |
2023 | Aluminum oxide and aluminum hydroxide | 38.3 | – | S | S | S | S | 21.5 |
2024 | Industrial gases | 24.4 | – | 35.6 | 0.2 | 29.4 | – | S |
2025 | Sodium or potassium compounds, nec | 24.8 | – | 31.9 | – | 33.0 | 0.1 | 18.9 |
2026 | Metal compounds, nec | 16.3 | – | 16.0 | – | 20.8 | – | 13.6 |
2029 | Other | 16.5 | – | 18.5 | – | 31.4 | 0.1 | 13.2 |
2030 | Cyclic hydrocarbons | 24.7 | – | 28.7 | – | 18.8 | – | 19.4 |
2041 | Acyclic alcohols | 29.8 | – | S | S | 23.9 | – | 20.0 |
2042 | Phenols, phenol-alcohols, aldehydes, cyclic polymers of aldehydes, | 14.9 | – | 14.8 | – | 24.6 | – | 18.5 |
2043 | Organic acids | 18.8 | – | 14.9 | – | 20.8 | – | 16.8 |
2050 | Organic chemicals, nec | 13.7 | 0.1 | 17.4 | 0.2 | 20.7 | 0.3 | 14.6 |
2100 | Pharmaceutical products | 9.5 | 0.5 | 16.7 | – | 21.0 | – | 5.7 |
2201 | Animal or vegetable fertilizers and fertilizers produced by the mixing or | 42.9 | – | 30.9 | – | 33.3 | – | S |
2202 | Nitrogenous mineral or chemical fertilizers | 20.7 | – | 18.4 | 0.1 | 15.9 | 0.1 | S |
2203 | Phosphatic mineral or chemical fertilizers | 36.5 | – | S | S | 39.9 | 0.2 | 40.0 |
2204 | Potassic mineral or chemical fertilizers | 35.4 | – | 31.5 | – | 37.1 | – | 23.5 |
2209 | Other | 19.1 | – | 25.1 | 0.2 | S | S | 21.9 |
2311 | Paints and varnishes | 18.0 | – | 18.6 | – | 32.3 | 0.1 | 16.6 |
2312 | Vegetable tanning extracts and coloring matter, tannins and their | 28.6 | – | 25.1 | – | 29.7 | – | 17.3 |
2320 | Essential oils and resinoids, and perfumery, cosmetic, or toilet preparations | 10.7 | – | 13.7 | – | 17.3 | – | 8.0 |
2330 | Soap, organic surface-active agents, cleaning preparations, polishes and | 11.0 | – | 12.7 | – | 13.8 | – | 9.2 |
2340 | Photographic film, plates, paper, paperboard, or textiles, and chemical | 17.5 | – | 17.7 | – | 22.5 | – | 26.5 |
2350 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbic | 15.9 | – | 23.9 | – | 24.3 | – | 13.1 |
2390 | Other chemical products and preparations | 13.3 | – | 14.0 | – | 15.5 | 0.1 | 7.9 |
2410 | Plastics in primary forms, rubber in primary forms or sheets, and | 9.6 | – | 7.6 | – | 8.5 | 0.1 | 10.1 |
2421 | Manmade fibers and plastics basic shapes | 6.3 | – | 8.4 | – | 10.4 | – | 10.6 |
2422 | Articles | 4.4 | – | 7.0 | – | 7.5 | – | 6.4 |
2431 | Tires and related products | 17.6 | 0.1 | 15.6 | – | 29.0 | – | 15.1 |
2439 | Other | 9.3 | – | 15.9 | – | 21.8 | – | 9.2 |
2501 | Logs for pulping (pulpwood) | S | S | S | S | S | S | 17.7 |
2502 | Logs for lumber | 28.2 | – | S | S | 42.5 | – | S |
2509 | Other | 37.2 | – | 28.1 | – | 26.9 | – | 16.3 |
2610 | Wood chips or particles | 25.6 | – | 25.3 | 0.2 | 33.0 | – | 13.7 |
2621 | Lumber | 9.2 | – | 9.5 | 0.1 | 12.1 | 0.2 | 9.8 |
2622 | Wood continuously shaped along any of its edges or faces and shingles and | 7.5 | – | 11.0 | – | 15.4 | – | 16.4 |
2631 | Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood | 18.0 | – | 24.3 | – | 23.0 | – | 22.3 |
2632 | Particle board, fiberboard, and similar board of wood or other ligneous | 11.7 | – | 17.0 | – | 32.7 | 0.3 | 11.6 |
2633 | Plywood, veneered panels, and similar laminated wood | 7.4 | – | 6.6 | – | 15.2 | – | 20.0 |
2640 | Builders joinery and carpentry of wood, except shingles and shakes | 19.9 | 0.1 | 15.4 | – | 24.0 | – | 13.9 |
2690 | Other wood products | 10.2 | – | 18.6 | – | 42.6 | – | 16.3 |
2711 | Mechanical wood pulp | 28.4 | – | 27.6 | – | 21.8 | – | 17.4 |
2712 | Nondissolving grades of soda or sulphate chemical wood pulp | S | S | S | S | 40.5 | – | 26.8 |
2719 | Other | 21.8 | – | 30.5 | – | S | S | 23.1 |
2720 | Newsprint in large rolls or sheets | 8.7 | – | 8.5 | – | 9.8 | – | 10.0 |
2731 | Paper | 6.8 | – | 8.0 | – | 7.5 | – | 17.3 |
2732 | Paperboard | 12.5 | – | 11.1 | – | 9.6 | – | 20.5 |
2741 | Paper | 10.7 | – | 7.9 | – | 8.0 | – | 12.2 |
2742 | Paperboard | 25.0 | – | 25.9 | – | 34.5 | 0.1 | 16.8 |
2801 | Toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels and napkins, sanitary napkins | 9.5 | – | 12.6 | – | 14.1 | – | 14.7 |
2802 | Packing containers of paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding, or webs of | 7.0 | – | 8.2 | – | 13.1 | – | 7.7 |
2809 | Other | 8.4 | – | 10.8 | – | 12.2 | – | 10.5 |
2910 | Printed books, brochures, leaflets, and similar printed products | 15.7 | 0.1 | 12.1 | – | 13.5 | – | 4.7 |
2921 | Newspapers | 34.6 | – | 26.6 | – | 29.1 | – | S |
2922 | Journals and periodicals | 12.8 | – | 15.1 | – | 16.0 | – | 13.3 |
2930 | Advertising material, commercial or trade catalogues, and similar printed | 7.5 | – | 15.6 | – | 13.4 | – | 7.4 |
2991 | Printed or illustrated postcards, messages, or announcements, and printed | 14.3 | – | 21.2 | – | 44.5 | – | 7.5 |
2999 | Other | 9.6 | – | 20.6 | – | 16.2 | – | 6.5 |
3011 | Textile fibers, processed but not spun or made into yarn | 19.3 | – | 40.3 | – | 43.9 | – | 11.4 |
3012 | Yarns and thread, except specialty yarns, such as metallized or gimped | 16.7 | – | 22.7 | – | 16.3 | – | 8.8 |
3013 | Broadwoven fabrics, except made of metallized yarn | 15.6 | – | 19.2 | – | 22.9 | – | 8.1 |
3014 | Knitted or crocheted fabrics | 14.2 | – | 16.0 | – | 14.0 | – | 8.3 |
3020 | Textile clothing and accessories, and headgear, except safety | 9.0 | 0.3 | 11.3 | – | 30.3 | 0.1 | 3.4 |
3031 | Narrow-woven fabrics and related products | 27.0 | – | 20.9 | – | 24.9 | – | 6.6 |
3032 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings | 14.0 | – | 18.4 | – | 24.3 | – | 9.9 |
3033 | Household furnishings | 8.5 | – | 12.0 | – | 10.4 | – | 4.9 |
3039 | Other | 16.5 | – | 17.7 | – | 19.7 | – | 6.6 |
3040 | Footwear | 27.6 | 0.1 | 19.0 | – | 18.1 | – | 4.5 |
3050 | Leather and articles, luggage of related materials, and dressed furskins | 22.1 | – | S | S | S | S | 5.8 |
3110 | Hydraulic cements | 11.2 | – | 11.9 | 0.1 | 18.8 | – | 7.6 |
3121 | Refractory cements, mortars, concretes, and ceramic products | 32.5 | – | 37.6 | – | 31.6 | – | 34.0 |
3122 | Ceramic construction products | 29.9 | – | 39.4 | – | S | S | 18.4 |
3123 | China, porcelain, and other ceramic household or personal articles | 36.2 | – | S | S | S | S | 6.9 |
3129 | Other | 39.2 | – | S | S | S | S | 10.2 |
3131 | Glass in sheets or profiles | 13.5 | – | 14.2 | – | 12.2 | – | 19.7 |
3132 | Containers of glass used for transporting or packing goods | 16.2 | – | 17.3 | – | 26.7 | – | 14.1 |
3139 | Other | 18.2 | – | S | S | 40.1 | 0.1 | 18.6 |
3191 | Worked monumental or building stone and articles | 44.6 | – | S | S | S | S | 19.8 |
3192 | Articles of asphalt or of similar material | 32.0 | – | 29.4 | – | 40.5 | 0.1 | 14.8 |
3193 | Plaster and articles of plaster or of compositions based on plaster | 16.5 | – | 15.2 | – | 13.9 | – | 32.0 |
3194 | Nonrefractory mortars and concretes | 33.3 | – | 22.0 | 0.7 | 34.0 | 0.1 | 15.8 |
3195 | Articles of cement, concrete, or artificial stone | 12.3 | – | 13.7 | 0.3 | 19.3 | 0.1 | 21.9 |
3199 | Other | 10.9 | – | 17.7 | 0.1 | 23.3 | 0.2 | 16.8 |
3210 | Iron and steel in primary forms, in semifinished forms, or in powders or | 10.6 | – | 16.7 | – | 13.5 | – | 14.8 |
3220 | Flat-rolled products of iron or steel | 7.3 | – | 8.0 | 0.1 | 8.4 | 0.2 | 8.5 |
3230 | Bars, rods, angles, shapes, sections, and wire, of iron or steel | 10.0 | – | 9.5 | – | 14.1 | 0.1 | 8.0 |
3241 | Copper | 12.6 | – | 15.8 | – | 22.0 | – | 16.1 |
3242 | Aluminum | 7.1 | – | 7.3 | – | 8.3 | – | 10.7 |
3249 | Other | 19.4 | – | S | S | 49.5 | 0.1 | 8.5 |
3311 | Pipes and tubes | 6.6 | – | 23.3 | – | 11.9 | – | 15.2 |
3312 | Pipe and tube fittings | 11.7 | – | 9.5 | – | 11.7 | – | 14.8 |
3320 | Structures and parts, except prefabricated buildings | 8.7 | – | 10.5 | – | 14.6 | – | 7.7 |
3331 | Nails, screws, bolts, nuts, washers, staples, | 10.5 | – | 15.8 | – | 19.0 | – | 13.4 |
3332 | Hand tools and cutlery, except of precious metals | 14.8 | – | 19.4 | – | 37.1 | – | 9.6 |
3333 | Interchangeable tools for hand- or machine-tools | 13.0 | – | 37.2 | – | S | S | 12.5 |
3334 | Locks, mountings and fittings, racks and similar fixtures, and automatic | 17.3 | – | 20.4 | – | 26.8 | – | 9.5 |
3391 | Containers of a capacity not exceeding 300 litres, except containers for | 14.5 | – | 16.9 | – | 21.6 | – | 14.2 |
3399 | Other | 12.2 | – | 31.1 | – | 25.0 | – | 10.7 |
3411 | Spark-ignition reciprocating internal-combusti | 15.1 | – | 16.7 | – | 13.5 | – | 15.4 |
3412 | Other internal-combustion engines | 11.6 | – | 12.1 | – | 15.7 | – | 32.2 |
3413 | Parts of internal-combustion piston engines | 19.5 | – | 24.1 | – | 18.4 | – | 19.0 |
3421 | Turbines | 16.7 | – | 29.2 | – | 30.5 | – | 9.4 |
3422 | Boilers, nuclear reactors,and nonelectric motors, | 17.1 | – | 20.1 | – | 21.4 | – | 13.4 |
3431 | Pumps for liquids | 12.2 | – | 18.8 | – | 22.0 | – | 14.9 |
3432 | Air or vacuum pumps and air or other gas compressors | 27.9 | – | 28.4 | – | 38.2 | – | 16.2 |
3433 | Fans and ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan | 16.6 | – | 26.8 | – | 37.8 | – | 12.6 |
3441 | Air-conditioning equipment | 12.3 | – | 18.6 | – | 20.9 | – | 19.7 |
3442 | Refrigerating or freezing equipment | 12.0 | – | 13.4 | – | 17.1 | – | 18.0 |
3451 | Lifting, handling, loading, or unloading machinery and equipment | 10.4 | – | 12.9 | – | 14.1 | – | 10.6 |
3452 | Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, | 7.8 | – | 14.4 | – | 13.9 | – | 17.2 |
3491 | Dishwashing machines, machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other | 23.7 | – | 35.5 | – | 34.9 | – | 18.5 |
3492 | Agricultural, horticultural, forestry, and poultry- or beekeeping machinery | 12.2 | – | 15.1 | – | 16.2 | – | 35.0 |
3493 | Textile manufacturing machines and household, commercial, or industrial | 15.3 | – | 18.2 | – | 21.9 | – | 16.8 |
3494 | Machine-tools, except for semiconductor devices, for working hard materials | 17.3 | – | 26.6 | – | 38.6 | – | 9.0 |
3495 | Powered handtools, pneumatic, hydraulic, or with a self-contained electric | 16.6 | – | 22.1 | – | 19.4 | – | 11.9 |
3496 | Machines and apparatus, and wire, rods, tubes, plates, electrodes and | 24.8 | – | 26.3 | – | 44.3 | – | S |
3497 | Ball or roller bearings, transmission shafts and cranks, bearing housings | 11.6 | – | 14.1 | – | 13.8 | – | 13.8 |
3499 | Other | 17.3 | 0.2 | 30.4 | – | 31.1 | – | 9.4 |
3511 | Electric motors, generators, generating sets, and rotary converters | 10.2 | – | 25.1 | – | 18.8 | – | 18.1 |
3512 | Electric or electronic transformers, static converters, including | 15.5 | – | 23.4 | – | 22.5 | – | 15.7 |
3521 | Electric cooking appliances | 24.6 | – | 25.0 | – | 32.3 | – | 12.2 |
3522 | Electromechanical or electrothermic domestic appliances, except cooking | 26.0 | – | S | S | S | S | 7.7 |
3531 | Telephone or telegraph switching apparatus, except parts | 20.1 | – | 28.2 | – | 28.2 | – | 18.0 |
3539 | Other | 31.8 | 0.2 | 28.7 | – | 38.1 | – | 7.2 |
3540 | Electronic entertainment products, except parts | 17.6 | 0.1 | 17.4 | – | 14.8 | – | 8.0 |
3551 | Computer equipment | 11.3 | 0.2 | 13.3 | – | 13.8 | – | 5.9 |
3552 | Office equipment | 16.5 | – | 15.2 | – | 22.3 | – | 11.5 |
3561 | Prepared unrecorded media for audio, video, computer, or other uses | S | S | 26.1 | – | 27.1 | – | 10.5 |
3562 | Pre-recorded media | 14.4 | – | 17.6 | – | 17.5 | – | 3.9 |
3570 | Transmission apparatus for radio or television broadcasting, radio | 15.0 | – | 23.6 | – | 26.5 | – | 7.6 |
3581 | Electronic parts | 11.7 | 0.2 | S | S | 43.4 | – | 4.6 |
3582 | Parts of the goods of SCTG 354 and 357 | 15.4 | – | 19.3 | – | 23.9 | – | 21.5 |
3591 | Primary and storage batteries | 22.0 | – | 29.1 | – | 39.1 | – | 20.3 |
3592 | Apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits or for making | 10.0 | – | 11.7 | – | 13.9 | – | 13.4 |
3599 | Other | 14.1 | 0.3 | 17.8 | – | 21.1 | – | 12.2 |
3610 | Motor vehicles for the transport of less than | 11.1 | 0.3 | 10.3 | – | 16.2 | – | 15.4 |
3621 | Motor vehicles for the transport of goods, except parts | 12.0 | – | 22.2 | – | 28.2 | – | S |
3622 | Road tractors for semitrailers, except parts | 17.7 | – | 15.6 | – | 27.9 | – | 17.9 |
3631 | Tractors, except road tractors, work tractors, and parts | 11.9 | – | 15.4 | – | 18.7 | – | S |
3632 | Motor vehicles for the transport of people wit | S | S | S | S | S | S | 33.9 |
3633 | Special-purpose motor vehicles, except parts | 18.7 | – | 17.4 | – | 25.5 | – | 13.4 |
3634 | Motor vehicle chassis fitted with engines and separately shipped bodies | 34.2 | – | 28.8 | – | 25.5 | – | 43.9 |
3635 | Motorcycles, bicycles, and other cycles | 23.1 | – | 23.3 | – | 28.5 | – | 5.9 |
3636 | Trailers and semitrailers | 13.0 | – | 14.7 | – | 15.4 | – | 23.1 |
3639 | Other | 34.1 | – | 40.0 | – | 42.3 | – | 15.5 |
3640 | Parts and accessories for motor vehicles, except for motorcycles and | 12.1 | 0.5 | 10.8 | – | 14.4 | 0.1 | 8.3 |
3710 | Locomotives and rolling stock, railway track fixtures and fittings, | 27.9 | – | 44.0 | – | 46.1 | 0.2 | 7.8 |
3721 | Aircraft, except parts | S | S | S | S | 34.9 | – | 15.7 |
3722 | Spacecraft and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles, except parts | S | S | S | S | S | S | 17.1 |
3723 | Parts of aircraft and spacecraft | 15.7 | 0.1 | 17.6 | – | 31.1 | – | 4.5 |
3724 | Parachutes, rotochutes, aircraft-launching gea | S | S | S | S | S | S | 30.9 |
3731 | Pleasure or sporting vessels | 17.3 | – | 17.6 | – | 18.5 | – | 15.4 |
3732 | Commercial ships and boats and floating structures | 44.5 | – | 38.1 | – | 28.5 | – | 14.5 |
3810 | Optical elements, instruments, and apparatus, except photographic and | 19.0 | – | 28.4 | – | 26.4 | – | 11.6 |
3821 | Photographic cameras, image projectors, enlargers and reducers, projection | 18.9 | – | 18.2 | – | 22.6 | – | 10.5 |
3822 | Photocopying and thermocopying apparatus | 27.9 | – | 30.5 | – | 39.3 | – | 16.2 |
3831 | Navigational instruments and appliances, except radar and other radio-type | 35.9 | – | 34.9 | – | 46.5 | – | 11.7 |
3832 | Surveying,hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological, | 38.5 | – | S | S | S | S | 13.8 |
3841 | Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or alpha, beta, or gamma radiation | S | S | S | S | 44.3 | – | S |
3842 | Electromedical equipment | 35.3 | – | 22.6 | – | 29.9 | – | 14.7 |
3849 | Other | 16.9 | 0.2 | 21.1 | – | 21.4 | – | 8.5 |
3851 | Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities | 26.0 | – | 16.6 | – | 28.3 | – | 22.8 |
3852 | Industrial process-control instruments | 20.8 | – | 25.8 | – | 29.1 | – | 14.5 |
3859 | Other | 10.3 | – | 18.9 | – | 22.4 | – | 6.0 |
3901 | Household or office furniture | 6.7 | – | 16.4 | – | 8.5 | – | 6.8 |
3902 | Other furniture | 11.6 | – | 19.2 | – | 11.7 | – | 7.7 |
3903 | Lighting equipment, except for motor vehicles, lamps, lighting fittings, | 15.1 | – | 14.1 | – | 14.2 | – | 15.0 |
4011 | Arms | 15.1 | – | 30.3 | – | 27.7 | – | 4.2 |
4012 | Munitions and ammunition | 34.9 | – | 37.4 | – | 33.4 | – | 9.7 |
4021 | Toys and games | 31.0 | 0.1 | 29.2 | – | 45.1 | – | 7.3 |
4022 | Sporting equipment | 13.8 | – | 24.7 | – | 19.8 | – | 5.0 |
4091 | Clocks and watches | S | S | 41.5 | – | 47.1 | – | 8.4 |
4092 | Prefabricated buildings | 9.2 | – | 10.4 | – | 11.3 | – | 14.3 |
4093 | Writing or drawing instruments and inked ribbons and pads | 19.2 | – | 38.9 | – | S | S | 12.2 |
4094 | Precious metal forms and shapes, pearls, precious or semiprecious stones, | 25.8 | 0.1 | 42.9 | – | 42.6 | – | 6.4 |
4099 | Other | 5.6 | 0.2 | 11.4 | – | 6.4 | – | 4.6 |
4111 | Slag, ash, and residues | 46.6 | – | 44.7 | – | 45.9 | – | S |
4112 | Of ferrous metal | 21.2 | – | 21.2 | 0.3 | 37.3 | 0.3 | 13.7 |
4113 | Of nonferrous metal, including precious | 19.4 | – | 19.5 | – | 21.5 | – | 11.9 |
4121 | Sawdust and wood waste and scrap | 42.5 | – | 38.3 | – | S | S | 16.0 |
4122 | Of paper or paperboard | 27.7 | – | 31.3 | – | 30.9 | – | 17.4 |
4129 | Other | 34.0 | – | 31.2 | – | 42.7 | – | 23.3 |
4399 | Mixed freight | 3.6 | 0.4 | 5.6 | 0.1 | 5.0 | 0.1 | 7.9 |
-- | Commodity unknown | 9.9 | – | 22.3 | – | 41.7 | 0.1 | 8.8 |
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.
NOTE: The Introduction and appendixes give information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, sample design, and definitions. Links to this information on the Internet may be found at www.census.gov/cfs.
SOURCE: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (USDOT) and U.S. Census Bureau, 2002 Commodity Flow Survey, United States Data, December 2004.