Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| February 2014 |
January 2015r |
February 2015p |
January to February 2015 | February 2014 to February 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 50,805 | 50,884 | 50,036 | -1.7 | -1.5 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 45,246 | 46,491 | 45,323 | -2.5 | 0.2 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 44,338 | 43,720 | 43,672 | -0.1 | -1.5 |
| Inventories | 71,504 | 71,528 | 72,172 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Unfilled orders | 90,064 | 100,331 | 99,146 | -1.2 | 10.1 |
| New orders | 62,785 | 59,356 | 48,852 | -17.7 | -22.2 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.41 | 1.41 | 1.44 | ... | ... |
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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