Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| January 2014 |
December 2014r |
January 2015p |
December 2014 to January 2015 | January 2014 to January 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 49,969 | 52,309 | 51,423 | -1.7 | 2.9 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 44,775 | 47,555 | 47,080 | -1.0 | 5.1 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 43,732 | 44,747 | 44,051 | -1.6 | 0.7 |
| Inventories | 70,895 | 70,011 | 71,585 | 2.2 | 1.0 |
| Unfilled orders | 78,084 | 90,704 | 97,241 | 7.2 | 24.5 |
| New orders | 53,301 | 51,714 | 57,960 | 12.1 | 8.7 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.42 | 1.34 | 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 would be required to exhaust inventories if sales were to remain at their current level.
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