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Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, & Orders
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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.
Advance Report Highlights
July 2019 Advance Report released August 26, 2019 at 8:30 A.M. EDT
Full Report Highlights
July 2019 Full Report released September 5, 2019 at 10:00 A.M. EDT
Benchmark Reports Highlights
Benchmark Reports released May 17, 2018 at 10:00 A.M. EDT
Summary of Revisions and Survey Information Excel [2.50mb]
Annual Benchmark Data and Benchmark Procedures Excel [5.80mb]
Trading Day Diagnostics Excel [1.96mb]
Seasonal Summary Measures Excel [1.90mb]
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Notice: On May 16, 2019, monthly seasonally adjusted data for Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders, based on the North American Industry Classification System, were revised for January 2002 through March 2019. There was no accompanying press release containing revised seasonally adjusted data for January through March of 2019, and historical data not seasonally adjusted were unchanged. These revisions to the historical seasonally adjusted data were based on the results of the recent annual review of the seasonal adjustment models. Based on this review, the lists of series that are seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted were updated. Three unfilled orders series and one total inventories series that have been adjusted are no longer seasonally adjusted. Conversely, two stage of fabrication series that have not been adjusted are now seasonally adjusted. These changes were implemented on May 16, 2019 and were used to produce seasonally adjusted data from the Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey, beginning with April 2019.
FRED Mobile App: Receive the latest updates on the nation's key economic indicators by downloading the FRED App for both Apple and Android devices. FRED, the signature database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, now incorporates the Census Bureau's 13 economic indicators.
New Time Series: Beginning with the release of June 2018 data on July 26, 2018, historical estimates of the Monthly Advance Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders are available on a seasonally adjusted basis as well as a not seasonally adjusted basis in the Search Database.
The URL for the economic indicators data in the Census Bureau API (Application Programming Interface) has been updated to add /timeseries/. Examples can be found on the Developers' webpage.
Release Schedule
The upcoming release dates:
August Advance Report: September 27, 2019 8:30 a.m.
August Full Report: October 3, 2019 10:00 a.m.
2018-2019 Release Schedule: Excel [30kb]
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