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Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, & Orders

The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) survey provides broad-based, monthly statistical data on economic conditions in the domestic manufacturing sector. The survey measures current industrial activity and provides an indication of future business trends.

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Benchmark notice: Revised historical data from the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey will be issued on May 16, 2025. These revisions result from: benchmarking the M3 shipments and inventories data to the 2022 Economic Census (EC) data on a 2017 NAICS basis, as well as to revised ASM data from 2018 through 2021, resulting from benchmarking the ASM to the 2022 Economic Census; incorporating the unfilled orders to shipments ratios obtained for 2021 and 2022 from the Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders (M3UFO) Survey by applying these ratios to the respective ASM and EC 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; updating the seasonally adjusted data based on the results of benchmarking and the recent annual review of the seasonal adjustment models. These revisions will span the seasonally adjusted data for January 2012 through March 2025 and the data not seasonally adjusted for January 2017 through March 2025. An updated Press Release will contain revised monthly tables for January 2025 through March 2025.

Notice: Due to the executive order issued by President Biden closing the federal government on December 24, 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the Monthly Advance Report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders on Monday, December 23, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. The original release date was scheduled for Tuesday, December 24 at 8:30 a.m.

New: Check out our latest blog post, Inflation and Manufacturing reflected in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Indicator Program.

Special Notice: As part of the ongoing effort to improve the Advance Total Manufacturing estimates, beginning with the September 2024 data released on October 25, 2024, the file includes the addition of the Food products and Chemical products early shipments and inventories estimates from the monthly Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders Survey. These estimates are available on both a seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted basis and are included in the Advance Total Manufacturing Estimates file on the M3 website under the "Latest Monthly Advance Report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Order".


Statement Regarding COVID-19 Impact: The Census Bureau continues to monitor response and data quality and has determined that estimates in these releases meet publication standards. For more information on the compilation of this month's reports, see M3 COVID-19 FAQs.

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