Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
February 2016 |
January 2017r |
February 2017p |
January to February 2017 | February 2016 to February 2017 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 50,211 | 53,739 | 53,629 | -0.2 | 6.8 |
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 45,235 | 47,058 | 47,109 | 0.1 | 4.1 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 41,715 | 45,145 | 45,441 | 0.7 | 8.9 |
Inventories | 70,333 | 70,795 | 71,934 | 1.6 | 2.3 |
Unfilled orders | 89,476 | 87,602 | 88,229 | 0.7 | -1.4 |
New orders | 48,192 | 53,847 | 54,256 | 0.8 | 12.6 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.40 | 1.32 | 1.34 | ... | ... |
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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