Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| February 2020 |
January 2021r |
February 2021p |
January to February 2021 | February 2020 to February 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 55,783 | 56,272 | 55,357 | -1.6 | -0.8 |
| Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 52,546 | 50,762 | 48,723 | -4.0 | -7.3 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 48,369 | 50,024 | 49,929 | -0.2 | 3.2 |
| Inventories | 87,592 | 87,962 | 88,706 | 0.8 | 1.3 |
| Unfilled orders | 99,188 | 87,581 | 86,635 | -1.1 | -12.7 |
| New orders | 58,014 | 58,250 | 54,411 | -6.6 | -6.2 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.57 | 1.56 | 1.60 | ... | ... |
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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