Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| September 2014r |
August 2015r |
September 2015p |
August to September 2015 | September 2014 to September 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 52,632 | 51,840 | 51,081 | -1.5 | -2.9 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 47,202 | 46,479 | 45,752 | -1.6 | -3.1 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 45,569 | 43,796 | 43,620 | -0.4 | -4.3 |
| Inventories | 70,606 | 73,302 | 72,995 | -0.4 | 3.4 |
| Unfilled orders | 89,938 | 96,739 | 96,066 | -0.7 | 6.8 |
| New orders | 53,888 | 51,855 | 50,407 | -2.8 | -6.5 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.34 | 1.41 | 1.43 | ... | ... |
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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