Real Inventories, Sales, and Inventory-Sales Ratios for Manufacturing and Trade, 2008: IV-2012: II

摘要

The quarterly estimates that are presented in this report incorporate the results of the recent annual revision of the national income and product accounts. Monthly estimates for January 2012 to April 2012 have also been revised; the estimates for May and June are new, and the estimates for July are preliminary. Tables 1B, 2B, 3B, and 4B present chain-weighted estimates. Table 1B presents inventories. Table 2B presents sales. Table 3B presents the inventory-sales ratios that can be used to assess the likelihood that businesses will add to, or reduce, inventories in response to changes in demand; these ratios supplement the quarterly current-dollar and real estimates of ratios of inventories to final sales of domestic business, of nonfarm business, and of goods and structures that are presented in NIPA tables 5.7.5B and 5.7.6B. Table 4B presents estimates of manufacturing inventories by stage of fabrication.