Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| April 2014 |
March 2015r |
April 2015p |
March to April 2015 | April 2014 to April 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 50,933 | 50,819 | 49,774 | -2.1 | -2.3 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 45,649 | 46,084 | 45,635 | -1.0 | -0.0 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 44,267 | 43,795 | 42,862 | -2.1 | -3.2 |
| Inventories | 72,137 | 71,753 | 72,304 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
| Unfilled orders | 89,718 | 98,835 | 96,894 | -2.0 | 8.0 |
| New orders | 51,391 | 50,645 | 47,833 | -5.6 | -6.9 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.42 | 1.41 | 1.45 | ... | ... |
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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