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Front Matter

Building the FAF4 Regional Database: Data Sources and Estimation Methodologies

Prepared for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration U.S. Department of Transportation

September 9, 2016

Prepared by Ho-Ling Hwang, Ph.D. Stephanie...

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...

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 RETAIL

8.1.1 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...