Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
September 2016 |
August 2017r |
September 2017p |
August to September 2017 | September 2016 to September 2017 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 51,382 | 53,466 | 53,736 | 0.5 | 4.6 |
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 45,946 | 47,184 | 47,534 | 0.7 | 3.5 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 43,186 | 45,729 | 46,372 | 1.4 | 7.4 |
Inventories | 70,325 | 73,787 | 73,254 | -0.7 | 4.2 |
Unfilled orders | 88,662 | 86,063 | 85,099 | -1.1 | -4.0 |
New orders | 51,199 | 53,669 | 52,772 | -1.7 | 3.1 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.37 | 1.38 | 1.36 | ... | ... |
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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