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CED-77-3 1 (1976-10-28)

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UNITED STA TES

GENERAL A CCOUNTING OFFICE


An Assessment Of Capacity


Utilization Statistics--

Strengths And Weaknesses



Differences in industrial capacity utilization
rates reported by seven organizations for
1970 through 1975 ranged from 10.2 to 22
percentage points. The variations in the rates
are caused by differences in data collection,
calculation methods, ind definitions of capac-
ity. All of the capacity utilization statistics
reviewed have weaknesses.

GAO iecomnlends that the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget (1) develop
a family of capacity definitions for use ii.
calculating the stp,Listics and (2) assign to a
Federal orqanization or organizations the
responsibility for developing a single reliable
set of rates for use by Government and non-
Govt! nment users.











CED-77-3                            OC' 28,1976


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