Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| August 2020 |
July 2021r |
August 2021p |
July to August 2021 | August 2020 to August 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 52,511 | 59,997 | 60,312 | 0.5 | 14.9 |
| Manufacturing sales (2012 constant dollars) | 49,097 | 49,295 | 49,613 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 45,256 | 54,336 | 55,186 | 1.6 | 21.9 |
| Inventories | 85,674 | 94,221 | 96,186 | 2.1 | 12.3 |
| Unfilled orders | 95,206 | 93,494 | 93,757 | 0.3 | -1.5 |
| New orders | 51,196 | 59,753 | 60,575 | 1.4 | 18.3 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.63 | 1.57 | 1.59 | ... | ... |
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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