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Release Date:
October 15, 2012

For the Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales Report, all current month estimates are preliminary estimates, which will be superseded in following months by revised estimates. NA is provided for all future, unpublished months.

The Manufacturing and Trade Inventory and Sales estimates are based on data from three surveys: The Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS), the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS), and the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey (M3). Provided as measures of sampling variability are coefficients of variation (CV) for totals and standard errors (SE) for month-to-month percent change and ratio estimates, except in the following instances: For Manufacturers, SEs and CVs of the industry estimates cannot be calculated due to the fact that M3's mail panel is not a probability sample. Consequently, Manufacturers sampling error estimates are not available. Also at this time, Total Business SEs are unavailable for month-to-month percent change and ratio estimates.

For information on the reliability and use of the data, including important notes on estimation and sampling variance, seasonal adjustment, measures of sampling variability, and other information pertinent to this economic indicator, go to the Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales website, which provides time-series text files for Sales, Inventories, and Inventories/Sales Ratios data.

Estimated measures of sampling variability are based on data not adjusted for seasonal variation, and should be used when drawing inferences about both adjusted and not adjusted estimates.

NA = Not available.

The Y-axis may be truncated to prevent flattening of the lines or to present the complete range of data. In a future version of the visualization tool, the option to begin the Y-axis at the origin (0) will be available as applicable.

Source: Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (Definitions)
Total Business: U.S. Total — Seasonally Adjusted Sales - Monthly [Millions of Dollars]
TXT XLS-V XLS-H Bar Chart Line Chart Chart Instructions658KB
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1992 517,887 520,375 530,586 533,369 536,557 541,627 545,357 541,560 546,516 546,194 550,333 552,296
1993 558,763 558,354 554,994 561,024 568,510 566,208 566,537 566,742 571,318 576,863 577,988 577,254
1994 584,417 588,485 595,181 596,742 600,083 605,224 610,103 619,714 619,894 628,075 631,863 642,571
1995 644,647 645,351 641,179 649,432 647,732 655,106 653,346 658,008 664,761 662,154 665,787 678,185
1996 660,560 659,864 675,852 677,781 683,984 688,449 687,154 689,943 695,842 695,193 703,215 700,469
1997 703,858 717,728 717,941 717,822 714,895 722,354 728,190 727,152 732,546 730,260 736,948 734,738
1998 731,975 739,948 741,211 740,574 742,075 737,100 733,319 738,339 743,421 750,376 752,411 756,828
1999 756,635 765,364 765,563 769,512 780,987 782,274 785,980 795,837 797,117 804,452 810,142 817,872
2000 825,674 816,077 830,853 833,476 829,580 839,723 833,989 830,397 845,089 838,729 834,632 840,906
2001 834,407 836,869 824,268 818,479 828,104 815,028 812,040 817,632 803,068 816,379 808,022 806,205
2002 805,347 808,064 807,821 822,117 821,678 824,608 826,604 835,337 831,794 831,471 836,545 830,051
2003 840,998 840,868 850,418 834,901 836,887 847,737 857,527 857,601 865,529 868,626 872,867 875,792
2004 876,361 884,643 911,089 905,794 914,413 913,669 918,595 928,174 936,354 947,400 955,185 965,837
2005 971,804 976,532 976,059 992,515 984,914 997,035 1,002,848 1,012,946 1,025,904 1,033,471 1,031,725 1,043,718
2006 1,055,255 1,054,265 1,058,063 1,056,962 1,069,973 1,072,133 1,071,023 1,083,010 1,065,258 1,061,024 1,067,681 1,091,664
2007 1,076,635 1,092,122 1,103,644 1,110,490 1,125,004 1,120,720 1,122,899 1,129,093 1,137,367 1,147,997 1,168,639 1,161,041
2008 1,175,776 1,166,427 1,166,904 1,190,701 1,200,059 1,216,440 1,213,942 1,188,719 1,156,928 1,103,822 1,029,479 989,716
2009 970,663 974,634 947,160 945,558 951,284 967,040 975,469 989,081 989,271 999,446 1,017,758 1,026,324
2010 1,033,462 1,035,508 1,053,701 1,065,907 1,060,840 1,056,379 1,073,528 1,076,131 1,086,515 1,101,279 1,115,833 1,131,131
2011 1,154,121 1,154,192 1,181,873 1,185,110 1,184,326 1,193,625 1,206,331 1,209,034 1,209,760 1,218,605 1,220,328 1,230,951
2012 1,234,843 1,244,716 1,247,697 1,246,774 1,243,493 1,229,074 1,239,836 1,246,574 NA NA NA NA
Source: Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (Definitions)
Total Business: U.S. Total — Not Seasonally Adjusted Sales - Monthly [Millions of Dollars]
TXT XLS-V XLS-H Bar Chart Line Chart Chart Instructions658KB
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1992 478,951 496,844 542,833 533,768 537,400 565,571 526,185 539,853 560,404 566,565 545,760 588,251
1993 501,102 519,670 577,660 562,473 568,082 592,053 541,464 571,965 587,292 587,643 582,479 614,452
1994 523,199 548,442 622,218 589,743 606,190 634,298 570,382 637,290 638,550 637,472 636,597 673,861
1995 583,576 602,657 671,889 629,789 665,344 688,373 610,456 678,050 677,370 678,823 671,241 698,702
1996 608,890 640,408 687,749 676,459 705,128 701,473 661,060 704,489 703,818 724,199 700,035 729,369
1997 648,926 670,542 733,003 714,436 728,181 746,888 699,833 728,842 755,266 760,523 718,354 776,515
1998 665,199 691,649 766,470 739,466 743,025 776,742 710,372 738,979 765,522 769,652 740,557 801,061
1999 674,466 713,828 808,436 767,844 782,025 823,830 752,260 807,053 819,724 808,320 808,879 867,469
2000 736,418 788,463 877,235 805,781 857,443 885,803 785,590 859,519 857,579 850,389 832,885 869,308
2001 770,110 774,654 861,033 802,270 859,277 847,646 778,234 849,939 794,709 840,886 806,618 832,542
2002 744,711 745,321 829,075 820,170 854,248 837,920 809,151 860,714 829,838 859,538 823,211 864,906
2003 782,471 774,731 868,509 836,005 860,247 870,319 843,175 867,699 877,776 900,003 841,268 927,979
2004 806,150 828,380 959,786 911,274 920,925 955,593 899,006 950,246 949,020 950,680 947,147 1,020,734
2005 875,798 891,693 1,029,518 983,002 1,006,883 1,044,724 967,413 1,058,374 1,041,734 1,035,275 1,022,223 1,088,983
2006 963,217 957,622 1,112,133 1,028,670 1,115,829 1,127,666 1,036,006 1,135,668 1,066,130 1,076,915 1,057,795 1,116,195
2007 1,001,054 989,337 1,143,809 1,093,379 1,176,712 1,164,348 1,101,350 1,185,441 1,115,028 1,184,072 1,158,772 1,179,697
2008 1,097,451 1,097,181 1,184,809 1,194,579 1,242,290 1,255,415 1,222,940 1,210,968 1,168,124 1,140,141 989,332 1,043,046
2009 896,302 881,035 973,875 950,173 964,523 1,012,461 980,535 1,001,727 997,996 1,017,653 989,920 1,080,143
2010 940,113 937,191 1,107,190 1,077,000 1,073,586 1,106,551 1,062,074 1,104,156 1,094,739 1,099,871 1,103,224 1,184,811
2011 1,050,136 1,046,997 1,247,467 1,186,307 1,215,491 1,243,648 1,167,390 1,258,679 1,219,014 1,213,057 1,204,623 1,270,026
2012 1,138,666 1,173,635 1,306,460 1,242,543 1,303,928 1,260,660 1,210,662 1,298,685 NA NA NA NA
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Business & Industry | sssd.econ.data@census.gov |  Last Revised: September 20, 2012