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Actual Production

Average hours per week in operation

Capacity Utilization Rate

A single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. The QPC survey includes establishments where manufacturing or printing is performed.

The market value of the maximum level of production that an establishment could reasonably expect to attain under normal and realistic operating conditions fully utilizing the machinery and equipment in place.

National Emergency Production