Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2003

Table 26.   Retirement Rates

  Industry

Retirement Rate
(percent)

Industry

Retirement Rate (percent)

Food and Kindred Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pulp and Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.7

2.3

Glass and Glass Products . . . .. . . . . . . .

Hydraulic Cement . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.3

1.2

Bulk Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

1.7

   

Blast Furnace and Basic Steel Products

 

Aluminum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.0

      Blast Furnace/Basic Oxygen  Furnace . .

      Electric Arc Furnace     . . .  . . . .

      Coke Ovens . . .. . . . . . . . . .  . . . . .. . . .

      Other Steel . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . .

1.0

1.5

1.5

2.9

Metal-Based Durables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Other Non-Intensive  Manufacturing. . . . . . . .

 

1.3  

 

1.3

 

 

Note:  Except for the Blast Furnace and Basic Steel Products Industry,  the retirement rate is the same for each process step or end-use within an industry.
Source:  Energy Information Administration, Model Documentation Report: Industrial Sector Demand Module of the National Energy Modeling System, DOE/EIA-MO64(2003), (Washington, DC, January 2003).