Commodity Flow Survey

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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2007 Origin-Destination FilesZIP
origin_destination_files.zip
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Maintainer	Ronald Duych
Last Updated	March 8, 2021, 02:12 (EST)
Created	March 8, 2021, 02:12 (EST)
Identifier	DOT-148
Issued	1993-12-31
Language	{en-US}
Modified	2018-12-19
Theme	{Transportation}
accessLevel	public
accrualPeriodicity	irregular
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programCode	{021:000}
publisher	Research and Innovative Technology Administration
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