Table 1
Manufacturing: Principal statistics – Seasonally adjusted
| March 2023 |
February 2024r |
March 2024p |
February to March 2024 | March 2023 to March 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | % change1 | % change1 | |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 72,148 | 71,405 | 69,878 | -2.1 | -3.1 |
| Manufacturing sales (2017 constant dollars) | 56,454 | 56,180 | 55,080 | -2.0 | -2.4 |
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 64,271 | 63,641 | 62,584 | -1.7 | -2.6 |
| Inventories | 123,796 | 120,981 | 121,024 | 0.0 | -2.2 |
| Unfilled orders | 105,640 | 105,701 | 104,825 | -0.8 | -0.8 |
| New orders | 71,030E | 72,381E | 69,001E | -4.7 | -2.9 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio2 | 1.72 | 1.69 | 1.73 | ... | ... |
r
revised
p
preliminary
...
not applicable
E
use with caution
Source(s):
Tables 16-10-0047-01 and 16-10-0013-01.
Table note 1
Percentage 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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