Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| November 2013 |
October 2014r |
November 2014p |
October to November 2014 | November 2013 to November 2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 50,206 | 52,272 | 51,526 | -1.4 | 2.6 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 45,811 | 46,862 | 46,226 | -1.4 | 0.9 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 43,461 | 45,186 | 44,680 | -1.1 | 2.8 |
| Inventories | 69,134 | 71,179 | 71,124 | -0.1 | 2.9 |
| Unfilled orders | 71,457 | 90,830 | 91,057 | 0.2 | 27.4 |
| New orders | 50,271 | 52,656 | 51,752 | -1.7 | 2.9 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.38 | 1.36 | 1.38 | ... | ... |
Table note 1
Percent change calculated at thousands of dollars for current dollars, and millions of dollars for constant dollars.
Table note 2
The inventory-to-sales ratio measures the time (in months) that would be required to exhaust inventories if sales were to remain at their current level.
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