Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  October
2016		 September
2017r		 October
2017p		 September to October 2017 October 2016 to October 2017
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 51,260 53,704 53,488 -0.4 4.3
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) 45,368 47,359 46,666 -1.5 2.9
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 43,102 46,392 46,544 0.3 8.0
Inventories 70,459 73,565 74,771 1.6 6.1
Unfilled orders 89,505 85,266 87,315 2.4 -2.4
New orders 52,103 52,740 55,538 5.3 6.6
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.37 1.37 1.40 ... ...
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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