Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  April
2015		 March
2016r		 April
2016p		 March to April 2016 April 2015 to April 2016
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 50,101 49,931 50,441 1.0 0.7
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) 45,759 46,182 46,835 1.4 2.4
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 43,112 41,514 42,047 1.3 -2.5
Inventories 72,374 71,190 70,889 -0.4 -2.1
Unfilled orders 96,670 87,099 87,621 0.6 -9.4
New orders 48,209 47,251 50,963 7.9 5.7
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.44 1.43 1.41 ... ...
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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