Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| January 2017 |
December 2017r |
January 2018p |
December 2017 to January 2018 | January 2017 to January 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 53,355 | 55,491 | 54,919 | -1.0 | 2.9 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 46,985 | 48,007 | 47,481 | -1.1 | 1.1 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 44,878 | 47,607 | 47,559 | -0.1 | 6.0 |
| Inventories | 70,861 | 75,465 | 76,139 | 0.9 | 7.4 |
| Unfilled orders | 87,434 | 86,190 | 86,684 | 0.6 | -0.9 |
| New orders | 53,239 | 55,338 | 55,413 | 0.1 | 4.1 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.33 | 1.36 | 1.39 | ... | ... |
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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