The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) survey provides broad-based,
monthly statistical data on economic conditions in the domestic manufacturing sector. The survey
measures current industrial activity and provides an indication of future business trends.
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December 2012 Advance Report released January 28, 2013
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December 2012 Full Report released February 4, 2013 at
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Summary of Revisions and Survey Information Excel [4.51mb]
Annual Benchmark Data and Benchmark Procedures Excel [1.78mb]
Revised historical data for Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders will be issued on May 17, 2013. These revisions reflect: benchmarking the shipments and inventories data to the 2011 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) data, as well as revised ASM benchmarks for prior years; incorporating the unfilled orders to shipments ratios obtained from the 2010/2011 Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey by applying these ratios to the respective ASM shipments data, as well as incorporating revised unfilled orders to shipments ratios for prior years; adjusting the new orders data to be consistent with the benchmarked shipments and unfilled orders data; correcting monthly data for late receipts, reclassifications of reported data, and revisions to previously reported data; migrating the data processing environment from a server having a Linux Red Hat 4 operating system that supports SAS� 9.1.3 to a server having a Linux Red Hat 5 operating system that supports SAS� 9.2; and updating
the seasonally adjusted data, based on the results of benchmarking and the recent annual review of the seasonal adjustment models. An accompanying press release will include the revised 2013 January through March data. Please call Jessica Young on (301) 763-4832 with any questions.
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Last Revised:
February 04, 2013