Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| May 2014 |
April 2015r |
May 2015p |
April to May 2015 | May 2014 to May 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 51,805 | 49,875 | 49,935 | 0.1 | -3.6 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 46,518 | 45,519 | 45,277 | -0.5 | -2.7 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 44,736 | 42,944 | 42,973 | 0.1 | -3.9 |
| Inventories | 71,144 | 72,286 | 71,911 | -0.5 | 1.1 |
| Unfilled orders | 89,464 | 96,786 | 95,493 | -1.3 | 6.7 |
| New orders | 51,551 | 47,840 | 48,643 | 1.7 | -5.6 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.37 | 1.45 | 1.44 | ... | ... |
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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