Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  December
2016		 November
2017r		 December
2017p		 November to December 2017 December 2016 to December 2017
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 53,517 55,666 55,518 -0.3 3.7
Manufacturing sales (2007 constant dollars) 47,161 48,177 48,111 -0.1 2.0
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 45,154 47,791 47,580 -0.4 5.4
Inventories 70,147 75,274 75,347 0.1 7.4
Unfilled orders 87,551 86,669 86,034 -0.7 -1.7
New orders 51,929 54,712 54,883 0.3 5.7
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.31 1.35 1.36 ... ...
r
revised
p
preliminary
...
not applicable
Source(s):
CANSIM tables 304-0014 and 377-0009.

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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