Table 1 
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted 

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Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
  March
2020		 February
2021r		 March
2021p		 February to March 2021 March 2020 to March 2021
  millions of dollarsmillions of dollarsmillions of dollars % change1% change1
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) 50,390 55,884 57,842 3.5 14.8
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) 47,334 49,120 50,248 2.3 6.2
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories 45,487 50,422 51,868 2.9 14.0
Inventories 88,377 88,580 88,218 -0.4 -0.2
Unfilled orders 99,831 86,650 86,609 -0.0 -13.2
New orders 51,032 54,955 57,801 5.2 13.3
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 1.75 1.59 1.53 ... ...
r
revised
p
preliminary
...
not applicable
Source(s):
Tables 16-10-0047-01 and 16-10-0013-01.

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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