Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
May 2018 |
April 2019r |
May 2019p |
April to May 2019 | May 2018 to May 2019 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 57,192 | 57,974 | 58,914 | 1.6 | 3.0 |
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 52,370 | 53,265 | 54,179 | 1.7 | 3.5 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 49,648 | 50,662 | 50,780 | 0.2 | 2.3 |
Inventories | 81,209 | 88,069 | 88,802 | 0.8 | 9.3 |
Unfilled orders | 90,876 | 99,893 | 100,439 | 0.5 | 10.5 |
New orders | 59,960 | 57,784 | 59,459 | 2.9 | -0.8 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.42 | 1.52 | 1.51 | ... | ... |
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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