Table 5a. Economic and Physical Indicators for the Forest Products Industry, 1998 and 2002
(NAICS 321 and NAICS 322)

	MECS Survey Years
Indicators	1998	2002
Physical
Wood Products (Millions of Board Feet)	47,26	47,359
Paper Products (Thousand Tons) 1	87,375	82,679
Total paper	40,606	37,684
Total paperboard	45,171	43,659
Wet Machine Board	81.6	42.6
Building paper	688.6	524.4
Insulating Board	827.4	767.5
Nominal Economic (Current Billion Dollars)
Value of Shipments	246.2	240.9
Gross Output	243.7	237.7
Value Added	107.3	110.7
Real Economic (Billion 2000 Dollars)
Value of Shipments 2	259.3	245.3
Gross Output 3	256.7	243.0
Value Added 4	119.0	111.4

Notes: 1. Data was converted from short tons to metric tons.To convert from metric tons to short tons divide by 0.9071847.
2. Deflated using BEA's chain-type price indices for value of shipments.
3. Deflated using BEA's chain-type price indices for gross outputs.
4. Deflated using BEA's chain-type price indices for value added.
Sources: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Annual Survey of Manufacturers, Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries, 2001 and 2004, Table 2, and Bureau of Economic Analysis, "Value of Shipments and Price Indexes by Detailed Industry 1998-2004," December 2005; " Gross Output and Price Indexes by Detailed Industry 1998-2003," December 2005, and "Price Indexes for Value Added by Detailed Industry," December 2005; U.S. Census Bureau, Current Industrial Reports, Lumber Production and Mill Stocks: 2002, July 2003, Table 1, American Forest & Paper Association, Paper, Paperboard & Wood Pulp, 20003 Statistics, pages 30 and 31.