Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  October
2019		 September
2020r		 October
2020p		 September to October 2020 October 2019 to October 2020
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 57,070 53,960 54,126 0.3 -5.2
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) 52,977 50,757 50,761 0.0 -4.2
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 49,423 46,728 46,872 0.3 -5.2
Inventories 87,466 86,797 86,464 -0.4 -1.1
Unfilled orders 96,886 92,107 90,007 -2.3 -7.1
New orders 56,578 54,150 52,027 -3.9 -8.0
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.53 1.61 1.60 ... ...
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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