Real Inventories, Sales, and Inventory-Sales Ratios for Manufacturing and Trade for the First Quarter of 2008

摘要

This report presents quarterly estimates for the fourth quarter of 2007, first quarter of 2008 and monthly estimates for November 2007 to April 2008. Tables 1B, 2B, 3B, and 4B present chain-weighted estimates. Table 1B presents inventories, and 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.