Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, & Orders

Special Notice:

Revised historical data for Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders will be issued on May 18, 2012. These revisions reflect: benchmarking the shipments and inventories data to the 2010 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 2009/2010 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; incorporating the monthly data corrections when producing estimates for industry groups for which we identified companies to be tabbed separately from the link-relative estimation procedure; implementing a new SAS benchmarking program, which is based on the same benchmarking methodology as the previous ASCII Fortran program; 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 2012 January through March data. Please call Jessica Young on (301) 763-4832 with any questions.

February Advance Report: March 28, 2012 8:30 a.m.

February Full Report: April 3, 2012 10:00 a.m.

2011-2012 Release Schedule:  Excel  [30kb]

If you have questions, e-mail or call (301)763-4832.