Table B-6. Estimated Measures of Reliability for Shipment Characteristics by Three-Digit Commodity for the United States: 2012—Con.
Monday, July 13, 2015
(Estimates are based on data from the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey)
| SCTG code | Commodity description | Value | Tons | Ton-miles (1) | Average miles per shipment—coefficient of variation of number | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient of variation of number | Standard error of percent of total | Coefficient of variation of number | Standard error of percent of total | Coefficient of variation of number | Standard error of percent of total | |||
| All commodities (2) | 1.1 | 0 | 1.8 | 0 | 3.7 | 0 | 3.4 | |
| 010 | Live animals and live fish | 24.6 | Z | 24.7 | Z | 22.2 | Z | 19.2 |
| 021 | Wheat | 14 | Z | 14.5 | 0.2 | 39.1 | 1.1 | 22.9 |
| 022 | Corn, except sweet | 11.6 | 0.1 | 12.1 | 0.3 | 22 | 0.5 | 11.6 |
| 029 | Other cereal grains | 22.2 | Z | 30.3 | 0.1 | 31.2 | 0.1 | 20.8 |
| 031 | Fresh or chilled potatoes, except sweet | 18.3 | Z | 24.3 | Z | 34.5 | 0.1 | 22.8 |
| 032 | Fresh or chilled edible vegetables (except potatoes), and dried vegetables | 8.3 | Z | 6.6 | Z | 12.9 | 0.1 | 25.4 |
| 033 | Fruit and nuts, edible, fresh, chilled, or dried | 12.1 | Z | 12.3 | Z | 15.3 | 0.1 | 24.4 |
| 034 | Soy beans | 6.9 | Z | 6.3 | 0.1 | 13.9 | 0.4 | 11.9 |
| 035 | Oil seeds and nuts, except olives and soy beans | 17.6 | Z | 21.5 | Z | 35.5 | 0.1 | 15.8 |
| 036 | Bulbs, live plants, and seeds for sowing, n.e.c. | 12.5 | Z | 19 | Z | 22.3 | Z | 12.8 |
| 039 | Fresh-cut flowers, plants, and parts of plants, and other agricultural products | 13.9 | Z | 22.2 | Z | 17.1 | Z | 23.5 |
| 041 | Eggs, cereal straw or husks, forage products, residues and waste from the food industries used in animal feeding, other products of animal origin, n.e.c. | 7.7 | Z | 7.8 | 0.1 | 7.2 | 0.1 | 20.2 |
| 042 | Animal feed preparations | 9.5 | 0.1 | 10.8 | 0.1 | 10.6 | 0.1 | 24.9 |
| 051 | Meat and poultry, fresh, chilled, or frozen, meat in brine, dried or smoked | 3.4 | 0.1 | 3.5 | Z | 4.1 | 0.1 | 5.7 |
| 052 | Fish (except live), seafood, and their preparations | 10.8 | Z | 12.5 | Z | 16.4 | Z | 23.1 |
| 053 | Preparations, extracts, and juices of meat, fish, or seafood | 44.9 | Z | 49.8 | Z | S | S | 36.3 |
| 061 | Wheat flour, groats, and meal | 10.3 | Z | 11.8 | Z | 16.4 | Z | 13.8 |
| 062 | Malt, milled rice and corn (broken, flour, groats, and meal, inulin, wheat gluten, milled cereals and other vegetables and grains | 17.8 | Z | 20.5 | 0.1 | 25.9 | 0.2 | 23.4 |
| 063 | Bakery products and food preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk | 6.4 | Z | 7.9 | Z | 10.7 | Z | 25.6 |
| 064 | Bakery products, including frozen | 8 | Z | 8.2 | Z | 11 | Z | 23.6 |
| 071 | Dairy products except beverages and preparations of milk | 4.8 | Z | 6.3 | Z | 7.1 | 0.1 | 39 |
| 072 | Processed or prepared vegetables, fruit, or nuts, except dried or milled, and juices | 10.2 | 0.1 | 16.9 | 0.1 | 32.9 | 0.5 | 13.5 |
| 073 | Coffee, tea, and spices, except unprocessed coffee and unfermented tea | 15.7 | Z | 15.2 | Z | 23.8 | Z | 21.8 |
| 074-R (3) | Animal or vegetable fats, oils, waxes, and their cleavage products, prepared edible fats, and flours and meals of oil seeds (excludes oils and fats for use as biodiesel) | 6.9 | Z | 8.8 | Z | 8.1 | 0.1 | 26 |
| 075 | Sugars confectionery, solid or syrups not containing added flavoring or coloring | 11.1 | Z | 10.3 | Z | 12 | 0.1 | 30 |
| 076 | Confectionery, cocoa, and cocoa preparations | 4.9 | Z | 6.4 | Z | 8.5 | Z | 12.6 |
| 077 | Edible preparations, n.e.c., and vinegar | 10.8 | 0.1 | 9.5 | Z | 7.7 | 0.1 | 13.1 |
| 078 | Nonalcoholic beverages, n.e.c., and ice | 3.6 | Z | 4.9 | 0.1 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 37.7 |
| 081 | Malt beer | 5.3 | Z | 6.4 | Z | 13.9 | 0.1 | 3.4 |
| 082 | Wine and other fermented beverages | 7.7 | Z | 9.1 | Z | 18.2 | 0.1 | 17.9 |
| 083-R (4) | Spirituous beverages and undenatured ethyl alcohol | 7.6 | Z | 12.3 | Z | 19.8 | Z | 5.2 |
| 084 | Denatured ethyl alcohol, not for ingestion or use as biofuel | 18.1 | Z | 27.1 | Z | 26.4 | Z | 28.2 |
| 090 | Tobacco products | 15 | 0.1 | 13.1 | Z | 15.6 | Z | 19.7 |
| 100 | Monumental or building stone, except dolomite | 17 | Z | 11.3 | Z | 10.4 | Z | 11.7 |
| 110 | Natural sands, except metal-bearing | 10.3 | Z | 14 | 0.6 | 10.3 | 0.2 | 12.7 |
| 120 | Gravel and crushed stone, except dolomite and slate | 2.7 | Z | 2.9 | 0.4 | 6.5 | 0.3 | 7.7 |
| 131 | Salt | 19.7 | Z | 12.3 | Z | 18 | 0.1 | 18.6 |
| 132 | Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminum-calcium phosphates, and phosphatic chalk | 24.2 | Z | 28.2 | Z | 22.1 | Z | 35.3 |
| 133 | Dolomite, including monumental, building, and crushed | 8.4 | Z | 10.9 | 0.1 | 27.8 | 0.1 | 13.3 |
| 139 | Other nonmetallic minerals, n.e.c. | 8.3 | Z | 18.8 | 0.1 | 15.6 | 0.1 | 20.3 |
| 141 | Iron ores and concentrates | 26.2 | Z | 23.6 | 0.2 | 29.5 | 0.5 | 18.9 |
| 149 | Metallic ores and concentrates, except iron | 11.2 | Z | 16.1 | Z | 19.5 | Z | 20.2 |
| 151 | Nonagglomerated bituminous coal | 5.8 | Z | 8.8 | 0.7 | 13.6 | 2.3 | 4.5 |
| 159 | Coal, except nonagglomerated bituminous coal | 24.9 | Z | 28.2 | 0.2 | 29.4 | Z | 45.8 |
| 160 | Crude petroleum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 171-R (5) | Gasoline, and blends of gasoline and 10 percent ethanol | 4 | 0.3 | 3.9 | 0.4 | 12 | 0.2 | 12.7 |
| 172-R (6) | Aviation turbine fuel (types a and b), and kerosene | 11 | 0.1 | 10.7 | 0.1 | 31.8 | 0.1 | 12.1 |
| 175 | Ethanol, ethanol blends of more than 10 percent ethanol, and other fuel alcohols | 19.7 | Z | 19.4 | Z | 39.5 | 0.1 | 18.8 |
| 176 | Ethanol, for use as biofuels | 10.3 | Z | 9.2 | Z | 11.3 | 0.1 | 13.6 |
| 181 | Fuel oils | 8.7 | 0.4 | 10.8 | 0.7 | 30.3 | 0.6 | 9.6 |
| 182 | Blends of fuel oils and biofuel, biodiesel | 25.5 | 0.1 | 26.7 | 0.2 | 32 | Z | 9.4 |
| 191 | Lubricating oils and greases | 8.4 | 0.1 | 10.3 | 0.1 | 7.5 | 0.1 | 10.4 |
| 192 | Refined petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, n.e.c. | 10.7 | Z | 9.2 | Z | 18.3 | 0.1 | 20.3 |
| 193 | Gaseous hydrocarbons | 6.6 | Z | 7.1 | Z | 19.5 | 0.1 | 12.5 |
| 199 | Other products of petroleum refining, and coal products, n.e.c. | 23.5 | 0.1 | 14.8 | 0.4 | 41.7 | 0.6 | 19.4 |
| 201 | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) | 7.5 | Z | 12.4 | Z | 13.3 | Z | 19.9 |
| 202 | Inorganic chemicals, n.e.c. | 4.2 | Z | 4.6 | 0.1 | 9.4 | 0.3 | 10.3 |
| 203 | Cyclic hydrocarbons | 19 | Z | 18.2 | Z | 36.5 | 0.1 | 15.9 |
| 204 | Phenols, phenol-alcohols, aldehydes, cyclic polymers of aldehydes, and acyclic alcohols, and organic acids | 16.6 | Z | 15.3 | Z | 19.1 | 0.1 | 11.6 |
| 205 | Organic chemicals, n.e.c. | 10.4 | 0.1 | 13.4 | 0.1 | 10.3 | 0.1 | 14.1 |
| 210 | Pharmaceutical products | 2.5 | 0.1 | 7.2 | Z | 8.5 | Z | 12.2 |
| 220 | Fertilizers and fertilizer materials | 6.6 | Z | 15.6 | 0.3 | 12.2 | 0.3 | 11.4 |
| 231 | Paints and varnishes, enamels, tanning or dyeing extracts, tannins and their derivatives, inks, lakes, toners, and ink | 5.9 | Z | 9.1 | Z | 8.7 | Z | 11.9 |
| 232 | Essential oils and resinoids, and perfumery, cosmetic, or toilet preparations | 13.6 | 0.1 | 12.1 | Z | 12.7 | Z | 7.3 |
| 233 | Soap, organic surface-active agents, cleaning preparations, polishes and creams, and scouring preps | 5.7 | Z | 8.4 | Z | 9.5 | Z | 19.7 |
| 234 | Photographic film, plates, paper, paperboard, or textiles, and chemical preps for photographic use | 21.2 | Z | 31.8 | Z | 22.8 | Z | 12.9 |
| 235 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants, etc. | 9.1 | Z | 10.5 | Z | 14.6 | Z | 15.3 |
| 239 | Other chemical products and preparations: glues, prepared explosives, activated natural mineral products, anti-knock preparations, etc. | 9.7 | 0.1 | 14.6 | 0.1 | 8.9 | 0.1 | 13.4 |
| 241 | Plastics and rubber in primary forms or sheets | 7.8 | 0.1 | 10.7 | 0.1 | 13.1 | 0.2 | 9.2 |
| 242 | Manmade fibers and plastics basic shapes and articles | 3.5 | 0.1 | 3 | Z | 3.6 | 0.1 | 10.5 |
| 243 | Rubber articles | 9.2 | 0.1 | 17.5 | Z | 8.6 | Z | 7.6 |
| 250 | Logs and other wood in the rough | 17 | Z | 25.1 | 0.1 | 20.2 | Z | 29.4 |
| 261 | Wood chips or particles | 11.9 | Z | 14.3 | 0.1 | 12.1 | Z | 22.9 |
| 262 | Lumber, wood continuously shaped along any of its edges or faces, shingles and shakes | 5.1 | Z | 5 | Z | 9.3 | 0.1 | 10.2 |
| 263 | Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood, particle board, fiberboard, plywood, and similar laminated wood | 8 | Z | 19 | 0.1 | 6 | Z | 14.1 |
| 264 | Windows, doors, thresholds, and builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, except shingles and shakes | 3.1 | Z | 8.6 | Z | 6.4 | Z | 12.3 |
| 269 | Other wood products | 5.3 | Z | 9 | Z | 12.7 | Z | 12.4 |
| 271 | Pulp of fibrous cellulosic materials | 15.3 | Z | 17.9 | Z | 16.8 | Z | 14.5 |
| 272 | Newsprint in large rolls or sheets | 22.1 | Z | 15.7 | Z | 21.1 | Z | S |
| 273 | Uncoated paper, tissue, and paperboard in large rolls or sheets | 5.7 | Z | 7.5 | 0.1 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 12.6 |
| 274 | Coated, impregnated, treated, or worked paper and paperboard, in large rolls or sheets | 6.9 | Z | 7.8 | Z | 8.9 | 0.1 | 10.4 |
| 280 | Paper or paperboard articles | 2.5 | Z | 3.5 | Z | 3.6 | Z | 11 |
| 291 | Printed books, brochures, leaflets, and similar printed products | 6.9 | Z | 10.8 | Z | 11.9 | Z | 8 |
| 292 | Newspapers, journals, and periodicals | 7.8 | Z | 13.8 | Z | 12.9 | Z | S |
| 293 | Advertising material, commercial or trade catalogues, and similar printed products | 3.6 | Z | 14.5 | Z | 14.1 | Z | 2.9 |
| 299 | Other printed products | 9.8 | Z | 22.5 | Z | 18.1 | Z | 2.7 |
| 301 | Textile fibers, yarns, and broad woven or knitted fabrics | 7.9 | Z | 10.1 | Z | 10.3 | Z | 5.7 |
| 302 | Textile clothing and accessories, and headgear, except safety | 14.4 | 0.3 | 20.3 | Z | 24.3 | 0.1 | 2 |
| 303 | Textiles and textile articles, n.e.c. | 6.1 | Z | 10.2 | Z | 17 | 0.1 | 5.3 |
| 304 | Leather footwear | 12.2 | Z | 9 | Z | 14.4 | Z | 4.2 |
| 305 | Leather and articles of leather or allied materials, and dressed fur skins | 13.9 | Z | 27 | Z | 29.2 | Z | 4.1 |
| 311 | Hydraulic cements | 5.3 | Z | 6.7 | 0.1 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 5.6 |
| 312 | Ceramic products | 9.8 | Z | 14.2 | Z | 15.6 | Z | 11.8 |
| 313 | Glass and glass products | 5.5 | Z | 7.2 | Z | 9 | Z | 6.5 |
| 319 | Other nonmetallic mineral products | 4.7 | Z | 4.4 | 0.3 | 5.4 | 0.1 | 12.2 |
| 321 | Ferro-alloys, and iron and steel in primary or semi-finished forms, or in powders or granules | 8.4 | Z | 8.3 | Z | 9.1 | Z | 16.6 |
| 322 | Flat-rolled products of iron or steel | 3.6 | Z | 4.3 | 0.1 | 5.1 | 0.1 | 8.1 |
| 323 | Bars, rods, angles, shapes, sections, and wire, of iron or steel | 4.3 | Z | 6.8 | Z | 6.2 | 0.1 | 11 |
| 324 | Nonferrous metal, except precious, unwrought, or in finished basic shapes, or in powders or granules | 2.8 | Z | 4.2 | Z | 5.2 | Z | 7.3 |
| 331 | Pipes, tubes, and fittings | 3 | Z | 6.6 | Z | 6.8 | Z | 5.8 |
| 332 | Structures and parts, except prefabricated buildings | 5.8 | Z | 8.1 | Z | 8.1 | Z | 9.5 |
| 333 | Hand tools, cutlery, except of precious metals, interchangeable tools for hand or machine tools, hardware, and industrial fasteners | 3.9 | Z | 8.9 | Z | 10.4 | Z | 5.9 |
| 339 | Other articles of metal | 5.6 | Z | 7.4 | Z | 8.8 | Z | 3.6 |
| 341 | Internal-combustion engines and parts | 7.6 | 0.1 | 10.1 | Z | 24.8 | Z | 10.3 |
| 342 | Turbines, boilers, nuclear reactors, and nonelectric engines and motors, except internal-combustion | 13.3 | 0.1 | 15.2 | Z | 17.2 | Z | 17 |
| 343 | Pumps, compressors, fans, and ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan | 4.2 | Z | 6 | Z | 6.9 | Z | 6.1 |
| 344 | Air-conditioning, refrigerating, or freezing equipment | 6.3 | Z | 8.9 | Z | 8.4 | Z | 18.7 |
| 345 | Materials-handling, excavating, boring, and related machinery and equipment | 7 | 0.1 | 9.4 | Z | 10 | Z | 10.2 |
| 349 | Other mechanical machinery, n.e.c. | 4.5 | 0.1 | 21.5 | 0.1 | 10.1 | Z | 4.3 |
| 351 | Electric motors, generators, rotary or static converters, and transformers | 6 | Z | 20.1 | Z | 13.8 | Z | 11 |
| 352 | Electric cooking appliances, electro-thermic, or electro-mechanical domestic appliances | 14.7 | Z | 14.7 | Z | 15.7 | Z | 4.9 |
| 353 | Line telephone or telegraph apparatus | 11.8 | Z | 18.3 | Z | 15.2 | Z | 4.6 |
| 354 | Electronic entertainment products, except parts | 13.6 | 0.1 | 15.8 | Z | 13.6 | Z | 5.6 |
| 355 | Computer and electronic office equipment | 4.7 | 0.1 | 8.4 | Z | 11.8 | Z | 2.9 |
| 356 | Prepared unrecorded or prerecorded media | 7.4 | Z | 16.3 | Z | 22.4 | Z | 5.3 |
| 357 | Transmission, and reception apparatus for radio, television, radar, and remote-control | 12.1 | Z | 34.1 | Z | 23.8 | Z | 11.7 |
| 358 | Electronic components and parts | 6.5 | 0.1 | 9.2 | Z | 8.8 | Z | 7.1 |
| 359 | Other electronic and electrical equipment, n.e.c. | 3.9 | 0.1 | 5.7 | Z | 6 | Z | 9 |
| 361 | Motorized vehicles for transport of less than 10 people, except motorcycles, armored, and recreational | 6.8 | 0.1 | 8.4 | Z | 12.5 | 0.1 | 20.1 |
| 362 | Motor vehicles for the transport of goods, and road tractors for semi-trailers | 9.4 | Z | 21.3 | Z | 7.5 | Z | 23.3 |
| 363 | Other vehicles | 6 | 0.1 | 8.2 | Z | 6.9 | Z | 8.1 |
| 364 | Motor vehicles parts and accessories except motorcycles and armored fighting vehicles | 2.3 | 0.1 | 6 | Z | 11.1 | 0.1 | 9.1 |
| 371 | Railway equipment including locomotives and rolling stock, railway track fixtures and fittings, and parts | 21.2 | Z | 13.5 | Z | 13.9 | Z | 9.2 |
| 372 | Aircraft and spacecraft | 8.4 | 0.1 | 7.5 | Z | 8.4 | Z | 4.9 |
| 373 | Ships, boats, and floating structures | 10 | Z | 8.6 | Z | 34.4 | Z | 20.1 |
| 381 | Optical elements, instruments, and apparatus, except photographic and cinematographic | 9.8 | Z | 15.3 | Z | 29.8 | Z | 6.8 |
| 382 | Photographic and photocopying machines | 18.5 | Z | 12.4 | Z | 27 | Z | 9.9 |
| 383 | Surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological, and geophysical instruments and appliances | 16 | Z | 22.2 | Z | 14.2 | Z | 10.1 |
| 384 | Instruments, apparatus, and appliances for medical, surgical, dental, veterinary, or similar purposes | 3.6 | 0.1 | 29 | Z | 14 | Z | 3.9 |
| 385 | Meters and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or process control | 6.5 | Z | 17.1 | Z | 22.8 | Z | 6.4 |
| 390 | Furniture, mattresses and mattress supports, lamps, lighting fittings, and illuminated signs | 10.8 | 0.1 | 12.1 | Z | 6.7 | Z | 7.8 |
| 401 | Arms and ammunition | 14.9 | Z | 19.7 | Z | 11 | Z | 2 |
| 402 | Toys, games, and sporting equipment | 17.8 | 0.1 | 16.4 | Z | 12.1 | Z | 5.5 |
| 409 | Miscellaneous manufactured products | 4.2 | 0.1 | 12 | 0.1 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 3.1 |
| 411 | Metallic waste and scrap | 10.8 | 0.1 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 19.7 | 0.3 | 8.7 |
| 412 | Nonmetallic waste and scrap, except from food processing | 20.7 | Z | 19.6 | 0.1 | 25.5 | 0.1 | 10.6 |
| 439 | Mixed freight | 3.4 | 0.3 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 9.5 |
| 999 | Commodity unknown | 37.9 | Z | 33 | Z | 28 | Z | 19.4 |
KEY: Z = Rounds to zero.
(1) Ton-miles estimates are based on estimated distances traveled along a modeled transportation network. See “Mileage Calculations” section for additional information.
(2) Estimates exclude shipments of crude petroleum (SCTG 16).
(3) Prior to the 2012 CFS, oils and fats treated for use as biodiesel were included in Commodity Code 074. In the 2012 CFS, oils and fats treated for use as biodiesel moved to Commodity Code 182.
(4) Prior to the 2012 CFS, denatured alcohol of more than 80 percent by volume was included in Commodity Code 083. In the 2012 CFS, denatured alcohol of more than 80 percent by volume moved to Commodity Code 084.
(5) Prior to the 2012 CFS, Commodity Code 171 only included gasoline. In the 2012 CFS, mixtures of 10 percent ethanol and gasoline moved to Commodity Code 171.
(6) Prior to the 2012 CFS, kerosene was included in Commodity Code 192. In the 2012 CFS, kerosene moved to Commodity Code 172.
NOTES: 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: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 Economic Census: Transportation Commodity Flow Survey, December 2014.