Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  May
2015		 April
2016r		 May
2016p		 April to May 2016 May 2015 to May 2016
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 50,357 50,366 49,876 -1.0 -1.0
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) 45,636 46,716 45,716 -2.1 0.2
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 43,266 42,058 41,871 -0.4 -3.2
Inventories 72,358 70,824 70,703 -0.2 -2.3
Unfilled orders 95,220 87,698 88,805 1.3 -6.7
New orders 48,907 50,843 50,983 0.3 4.2
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.44 1.41 1.42 ... ...
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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