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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders

New orders for manufactured goods in September decreased $11.2 billion or 2.5 percent to $432.0 billion.

-4.3
August 2008
% change
-2.5
September 2008
% change

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Programs with national and subnational data
  U.S. States Metro
areas
Coun-
ties
Cities ZIP
codes
Economic Census 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002
Survey of Business Owners   (incl. minorities, women) 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002
Statistics of U.S. Businesses  (firms by size) 2005 2005 2005
Statistics of U.S. Businesses  (estab. births, deaths) 2005 2005 2005 2005
County Business Patterns 2006 2006 2006 2006   2006
Nonemployer Statistics   2006 2006 2006 2006
Local Employment Dynamics Qtrly Workforce Indicators   2007 2007 2007    
Commodity Flow Survey 2002 2002        
Annual Survey of Manufactures 2006 2006
Building Permits 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008
Governments 2007 2007 2007 2007
Foreign Trade: State Exports 2007 2007

Other national data
Multi-sector data:
Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) 2006
Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Survey 2006
Quarterly Financial Report 2007
E-Commerce Statistics 2005
Business Expenses Survey 2002
 
Sector-specific data:
Construction, Mining,
Manufacturing,
Retail, Wholesale Trade
Service sectors
 
Data more frequent than annual
Monthly:
Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3)
Current Industrial Reports (selected)
Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
Monthly Retail Sales and Inventories
Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey
Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (MTIS)
Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits
 
Quarterly:
Quarterly Financial Report
Quarterly Services Survey
Retail E-Commerce Sales
Current Industrial Reports (selected)
Local Employment Dynamics: QWI

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above are annual, except
for the Economic Census
and Survey of Business Owners

See also the discussion of assembling time series data before and after 1997.

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