Real inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios for manufacturing and trade, 1997:IV-2001:II

Survey of Current Business, Oct, 2001

AS PART of this year's annual revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPA's), the inventory and sales estimates were converted to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). (1) Tables 1, 2, and 3 show quarterly and monthly estimates of real inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios, respectively, on a NAICS basis. Table 4 shows real manufacturing inventories by stage of fabrication on a NAICS basis. Real estimates are in chained (1996) dollars.

Data availability

Quarterly estimates for 1996:IV-2000:II of real manufacturing and trade inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios and real manufacturing inventories by stage of fabrication are available as downloadable files on BEA's Web site at <www.bea.doc.gov>; click on "GDP and related data" look under "Supplementary estimates, historical underlying detail" and click on "Change in private inventories."

The most recent estimates are also available by subscription from BEA: On diskette as part of the NIPA monthly update (product number NDS-0171, price $204.00) and on separate monthly printouts (product number NLS-0166, price $108.00). To order, call the BEA Order Desk at 1-800-704-0415 (outside the United States, 202-606-9666).