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Release Date:
December 3, 2015

Revised historical data for Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders were issued on May 14, 2015. These revisions reflect benchmarking the shipments and inventories data to the 2012 Economic Census and 2013 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) data on a 2012 NAICS basis, as well as revised ASM benchmarks for prior years on a 2007 NAICS basis; incorporating the unfilled orders to shipments ratios obtained from the 2013/2012 and 2012/2011 Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey by applying these ratios to the respective Census or 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; and updating the seasonally adjusted data based on the results of benchmarking and the recent annual review of the seasonal adjustment models. These revisions spanned the seasonally adjusted data for January 1997 through March 2015 and the data not seasonally adjusted for January 2001 through March 2015. An updated Press Release contains revised monthly tables for January 2015 through March 2015 on a 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) basis, which will be the new basis for publishing data from the M3 Survey starting with the April 2015 Advance Report on Durable Goods.

For the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey, all current month estimates are preliminary estimates and will be superseded in following months by revised estimates.

For information on survey methodology and use of the data, including seasonal adjustment and other information pertinent to this economic indicator, go to the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders website, which provides a link to historical data.

The Y-axis for the line charts may be truncated to prevent flattening of the lines or to present the complete range of data.

Source: Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (Definitions)
Total Manufacturing: U.S. Total — Seasonally Adjusted New Orders [Millions of Dollars]

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Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2013	482,501	498,494	470,914	478,528	490,414	497,601	481,545	481,969	489,578	486,171	500,668	494,659
2014	491,214	500,673	504,510	509,166	501,954	510,052	565,232	505,642	500,812	496,308	493,017	474,894
2015	472,969	468,026	478,504	475,026	469,833	480,063	481,206	471,041	467,064	473,873	NA	NA

Source: Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (Definitions)
Total Manufacturing: U.S. Total — Not Seasonally Adjusted New Orders [Millions of Dollars]

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Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2013	450,763	469,574	492,978	476,750	504,488	513,760	469,012	490,404	504,849	499,682	480,784	498,807
2014	457,684	470,312	525,900	506,090	511,149	533,247	552,506	507,622	524,051	509,549	470,093	486,804
2015	433,463	437,676	504,967	473,214	468,957	510,706	469,006	472,263	487,375	480,481	NA	NA

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