Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  March
2015		 February
2016r		 March
2016p		 February to March 2016 March 2015 to March 2016
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 50,784 50,419 49,963 -0.9 -1.6
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) 46,055 46,123 46,174 0.1 0.3
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 43,736 41,814 41,503 -0.7 -5.1
Inventories 71,462 71,475 71,224 -0.4 -0.3
Unfilled orders 98,563 89,707 87,051 -3.0 -11.7
New orders 50,682 48,359 47,308 -2.2 -6.7
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.41 1.42 1.43 ... ...
r
revised
p
preliminary
...
not applicable
Source(s):
CANSIM tables 304-0014 and 377-0009.

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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