Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  September
2018		 August
2019r		 September
2019p		 August to September 2019 September 2018 to September 2019
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 58,091 57,536 57,396 -0.2 -1.2
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) 52,958 53,375 53,023 -0.7 0.1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 50,337 49,459 49,280 -0.4 -2.1
Inventories 83,941 88,701 88,007 -0.8 4.8
Unfilled orders 92,420 98,015 97,444 -0.6 5.4
New orders 58,031 58,405 56,825 -2.7 -2.1
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.44 1.54 1.53 ... ...
r
revised
p
preliminary
...
not applicable
Source(s):
Tables 16-10-0047-01 and 16-10-0013-01.

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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