Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| November 2019 |
October 2020r |
November 2020p |
October to November 2020 | November 2019 to November 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 56,389 | 53,990 | 53,664 | -0.6 | -4.8 |
| Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 52,278 | 50,556 | 50,271 | -0.6 | -3.8 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 48,513 | 46,833 | 46,920 | 0.2 | -3.3 |
| Inventories | 87,915 | 86,386 | 87,070 | 0.8 | -1.0 |
| Unfilled orders | 96,524 | 88,781 | 85,545 | -3.6 | -11.4 |
| New orders | 56,027 | 51,062 | 50,428 | -1.2 | -10.0 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.56 | 1.60 | 1.62 | ... | ... |
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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