Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
February 2015 |
January 2016r |
February 2016p |
January to February 2016 | February 2015 to February 2016 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 49,294 | 52,927 | 51,192 | -3.3 | 3.9 |
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 44,750 | 47,696 | 46,728 | -2.0 | 4.4 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 42,895 | 43,500 | 42,551 | -2.2 | -0.8 |
Inventories | 71,567 | 72,174 | 71,683 | -0.7 | 0.2 |
Unfilled orders | 98,665 | 91,919 | 89,766 | -2.3 | -9.0 |
New orders | 47,807 | 53,357 | 49,040 | -8.1 | 2.6 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.45 | 1.36 | 1.40 | ... | ... |
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 it would take to exhaust inventories if sales were to remain at the current rate.
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