Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, & Orders

Revised historical data for Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders were 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 includes the revised 2013 January through March data. Please call Jessica Young on (301) 763-4832 with any questions.

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April Advance Report: May 24, 2013 8:30 a.m.

April Full Report: June 5, 2013 10:00 a.m.

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