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Commodity Flow Survey

Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is the primary source of national and state-level data on domestic freight shipments by American establishments in mining, manufacturing, wholesale, auxiliaries, and selected retail industries. Data are provided on the types, origins and destinations, values, weights, modes of transport, distance shipped, and ton-miles of commodities shipped. The CFS is a shipper-based survey and is conducted every five years as part of the Economic Census. It provides a modal picture of national freight flows, and represents the only publicly available source of commodity flow data for the highway mode. The CFS was conducted in 1993, 1997, 2002, 2007 and most recently in 2012.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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References

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/commodity_flow_survey/index.html

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Publisher Research and Innovative Technology Administration
Maintainer
Identifier DOT-148
Data First Published 1993-12-31
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2018-12-19
Category Transportation
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
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Agencyprogramurl http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/commodity_flow_survey/index.html
Bureau Code 021:53
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Collection Metadata true
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/commodity_flow_survey/html/def_terms.html
Harvest Object Id ef174b55-d1f5-46dc-bafb-d78f665ea43c
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/xy22-e2cw
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Phone 202-366-8908
Program Code 021:000
Related Documents http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/commodity_flow_survey/index.html
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash a167776143be51ba1bcda8c590d5c773209cfe9ce3525ce7f6f11532d6836831
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1993-12-31/2013-12-31

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