Real inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios for manufacturing and trade, 2002:I - Statistical Data Included

Survey of Current Business, July, 2002

Tables 1, 2, and 3 show quarterly and monthly estimates of real inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios, respectively. Table 4 shows real manufacturing inventories by stage of fabrication. Real estimates are in chained (1996) dollars.

Data availability

Quarterly estimates for 2001:III of real manufacturing and trade inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios and of real manufacturing inventories by stage of fabrication were published in the April 2002 SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, and quarterly estimates for 1997:IV-2001:II were published in the October 2001 SURVEY.

These estimates are also available as downloadable files on BEA's Web site at <www.bea.gov>; click on "GDP and related data" and look under "Supplementary estimates, historical underlying detail," and click on "Change in private inventories."

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