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Table 6. Wholesale Merchants, Inventories/Sales Ratio, Seasonally Adjusted, by Trade Group

  Inventories/sales ratio  
Novemberp
2002
Octoberr
2002
Septemberr
2002
Augustr
2002
November
2001
October
2001
September
2001
August
2001
 
                 
Trade Group - Canada                  
Food products 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.59 0.59 0.58 0.60 0.59  
Beverage, drug and tobacco products 1.16 1.17 1.15 1.14 1.09 1.06 1.03 1.05  
Apparel and dry goods 1.99 2.04 1.91 2.06 2.16 2.09 2.07 2.11  
Household goods 1.72 1.69 1.63 1.63 1.73 1.78 1.81 1.79  
Motor vehicles, parts and accessories 0.90 0.89 0.94 0.93 1.09 1.09 1.02 1.03  
Metals, hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 1.75 1.74 1.72 1.75 1.85 1.84 1.87 1.82  
Lumber and building materials 1.57 1.52 1.52 1.53 1.62 1.67 1.72 1.69  
Farm machinery, equipment and supplies 2.72 2.82 2.86 3.04 2.68 2.73 2.87 2.80  
Industrial and other machinery, equipment and supplies 2.13 2.11 2.11 2.10 2.22 2.20 2.16 2.14  
Computers, packaged software and other electronic machinery 0.75 0.75 0.77 0.75 0.74 0.77 0.71 0.74  
Other products 1.19 1.22 1.22 1.25 1.22 1.27 1.25 1.25  
Total, all trade groups 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.26 1.32 1.33 1.31 1.31  
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