Table 3
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
February 2018 |
January 2019r |
February 2019p |
January to February 2019 | February 2018 to February 2019 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 56,113 | 56,749 | 56,638 | -0.2 | 0.9 |
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 52,439 | 52,583 | 52,322 | -0.5 | -0.2 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 48,014 | 48,947 | 49,060 | 0.2 | 2.2 |
Inventories | 79,079 | 85,365 | 85,758 | 0.5 | 8.4 |
Unfilled orders | 87,401 | 102,254 | 101,885 | -0.4 | 16.6 |
New orders | 58,853 | 55,433 | 56,270 | 1.5 | -4.4 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.41 | 1.50 | 1.51 | ... | ... |
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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