[Economic Indicators October, 1995]
[Page Number 10]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


BUSINESS INVESTMENT AND PLANS

                                                                                      [Billions of dollars]                                                                                     
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                                                                                                             By industry                                                                        
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                                                                           Manufacturing                                                                                                distrib-
            Period                  Total                           ---------------------------                                            Wholesale   Finance,               Serving      uted 
                                expenditures   Total    Mining and                       Non-   Transportation  Communications  Utilities      and    insurance,  Services   multiple      by   
                                                       construction   Total   Durable  durable                                               retail    and  real            industries   indus- 
                                                                               goods     goods                                               trade      estate                             try  
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1993\1\.......................       489.7      488.2        31.2      134.1     66.4     67.7         30.6            37.1         41.3       60.3        40.2      111.8        1.7        1.4
                                                                                                                                                                                                
1994\2\.......................       549.0      518.6        34.9      144.1     76.1     68.1         32.3            44.6         38.0       68.1        36.9      118.5        1.2       30.4
                                                                                                                                                                                                
1995\3\.......................       600.7      587.3        35.6      181.8    100.6     81.2         37.0            49.3         41.8       75.7        47.1      117.3        1.6       13.5
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    \1\Estimates collected from the 
1993 Annual Capital Expenditures 
Survey.
    \2\Preliminary estimates 
collected from the February 1995 
Investment Plans Survey. Final data 
are scheduled to be published in 
January 1996 in the 1994 Annual 
Capital Expenditures Survey.
    \3\Revised estimates of planned 
capital expenditures from the 
September 1995 Investment Plans 
Survey.
    Note.--Data from Business 
Investment and Plans, 1993 to 1995, 
released September 22, 1995. For 
further information, see Annual 
Capital Expenditures: 1993, and 
Technical Note on New Annual Capital 
Expenditures Survey, September 1995.
    Source: Department of Commerce, 
Bureau of the Census.