Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| August 2016 |
July 2017r |
August 2017p |
July to August 2017 | August 2016 to August 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 51,321 | 52,685 | 53,532 | 1.6 | 4.3 |
| Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) | 46,141 | 46,686 | 47,255 | 1.2 | 2.4 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 43,127 | 45,562 | 45,662 | 0.2 | 5.9 |
| Inventories | 70,048 | 73,889 | 73,865 | -0.0 | 5.4 |
| Unfilled orders | 88,845 | 86,203 | 86,225 | 0.0 | -2.9 |
| New orders | 50,158 | 51,291 | 53,554 | 4.4 | 6.8 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.36 | 1.40 | 1.38 | ... | ... |
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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