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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
The 2012 CFS covers approximately 70% of the domestic freight volumes by dollar value that FAF4 intends to capture, the remaining 30% being shipped by businesses outside the CFS scope. The CFS reports origin, destination, commodity, and mode (ODCM) activity of covered...
The changes in geography, commodities and modes in the 2012 CFS and their impacts on FAF4 in comparison to historical FAF data series are briefly discussed below.
3.1 CFS GEOGRAPHY3.1.1 Domestic RegionsThe CFS Areas are the smallest level of geographic detail for which the CFS...
2.1 OVERVIEW
The FAF is built on the CFS data, while integrating additional data to estimate volumes of shipments from many industries that were not covered by the CFS. Because it is CFS-based, 2012 CFS definitions of the 132 domestic areas, the 43 commodity codes (SCTG 2-digit...