Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
May 2020 |
April 2021r |
May 2021p |
April to May 2021 | May 2020 to May 2021 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 40,564 | 58,214 | 57,858 | -0.6 | 42.6 |
Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 39,236 | 49,416 | 48,179 | -2.5 | 22.8 |
Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 38,727 | 53,875 | 53,507 | -0.7 | 38.2 |
Inventories | 86,919 | 89,703 | 90,294 | 0.7 | 3.9 |
Unfilled orders | 100,079 | 90,806 | 87,085 | -4.1 | -13.0 |
New orders | 38,729 | 56,405 | 54,138 | -4.0 | 39.8 |
Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 2.14 | 1.54 | 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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