Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  May
2016		 April
2017r		 May
2017p		 April to May 2017 May 2016 to May 2017
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 50,231 54,018 54,593 1.1 8.7
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) 45,046 46,569 47,089 1.1 4.5
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 42,256 45,762 45,698 -0.1 8.1
Inventories 69,708 73,809 73,680 -0.2 5.7
Unfilled orders 88,427 90,400 89,076 -1.5 0.7
New orders 51,346 55,239 53,270 -3.6 3.7
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.39 1.37 1.35 ... ...
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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