Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
May 2019 |
April 2020r |
May 2020p |
April to May 2020 | May 2019 to May 2020 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 58,740 | 36,308 | 40,194 | 10.7 | -31.6 |
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 54,109 | 35,539 | 38,662 | 8.8 | -28.5 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 50,581 | 36,023 | 38,485 | 6.8 | -23.9 |
Inventories | 89,244 | 87,532 | 86,255 | -1.5 | -3.3 |
Unfilled orders | 100,769 | 97,781 | 95,403 | -2.4 | -5.3 |
New orders | 59,392 | 34,573 | 37,816 | 9.4 | -36.3 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.52 | 2.41 | 2.15 | ... | ... |
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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