Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
November 2016 |
October 2017r |
November 2017p |
October to November 2017 | November 2016 to November 2017 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 52,310 | 53,646 | 55,469 | 3.4 | 6.0 |
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 46,062 | 46,726 | 47,911 | 2.5 | 4.0 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 44,275 | 46,711 | 47,619 | 1.9 | 7.6 |
Inventories | 70,128 | 74,751 | 75,428 | 0.9 | 7.6 |
Unfilled orders | 89,139 | 87,243 | 86,427 | -0.9 | -3.0 |
New orders | 51,944 | 55,671 | 54,652 | -1.8 | 5.2 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.34 | 1.39 | 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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