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Appendix B: Agricultural Commodity Categorized By SCTG Group
SCTG 01: Live Animal and Fish
Calves sold (number) Cattle sold (number) Hogs and pigs sold (number) Any poultry sold, layers 20 weeks old and older (number) Any poultry sold, pullet chicks (number) Any poultry sold, broilers (number) Any poultry sold, turkeys sold (number...
Appendix A: CFS Area -FAF Zone Crosswalk Table
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STPOSTAL STFIPS CFSMA ST_MA FAF SHORTNAME AL 01 142 01-142 011 Birmingham AL 01 380 01-380...Foreign Trade
Unlike the construction of the domestic OOS commodity flows, with its diverse and sometimes partial data sources, the construction of estimates of annual import and export flows for FAF4 are generally based on a few highly developed datasets. Even so, lack of geographic details for...
Natural Gas
Like crude petroleum, natural gas is also an OOS commodity because NAICS 211 was not included in the CFS sampling frame. Information obtained from EIA publications, including the Natural Gas Annual and the International Energy Annual, served as the principal data sources used to...
Crude Petroleum
Because the CFS does not include shipments from NAICS subsector 211: Oil and Gas Extraction, transportation of crude petroleum is an OOS commodity for the CFS. Only one commodity code is covered in this OOS segment, which is SCTG 16 Crude Petroleum Oil. This includes shipments...
Retail, Services, and Household/Business Moves
Estimation processes for total shipments of retail establishments, services, or household/business moves are addressed in this section. Data sources and estimation methods applied in generating each set of flows are presented as well.
8.1 RETAIL8.1.1 Data Sources for...
Municipal Solid Waste and Construction & Demolition Debris
Estimation processes for OOS shipments of municipal solid waste (MSW) products and the construction and demolition debris (C&D) are similar. Discussions on data and methods used in estimating volumes of shipments associated with the MSW component are presented in the first part of...
Fisheries and Logging
Fishery shipments that are OOS for the CFS are those that occurred prior to the first point of processing or before arrival at a distribution center. Once the fishery shipments reach these points, they become an in-scope commodity for the CFS. The commodity coverage for the...
Farm Based Agricultural Shipments
Farm-based agricultural shipments represent one of the most significant OOS areas for the CFS. This sector covers farm-based agricultural shipments from the field (i.e., farm) to grain elevator, distribution or processing center, or slaughterhouse. These shipments are almost...