Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| April 2020 |
March 2021r |
April 2021p |
March to April 2021 | April 2020 to April 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 36,335 | 58,314 | 57,095 | -2.1 | 57.1 |
| Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 35,188 | 50,724 | 49,060 | -3.3 | 39.4 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 36,093 | 52,326 | 52,876 | 1.1 | 46.5 |
| Inventories | 87,786 | 88,495 | 89,191 | 0.8 | 1.6 |
| Unfilled orders | 98,275 | 87,142 | 87,024 | -0.1 | -11.4 |
| New orders | 34,780 | 58,426 | 56,977 | -2.5 | 63.8 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 2.42 | 1.52 | 1.56 | ... | ... |
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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