Name: Manufacturers' sales, inventories, orders and inventory to sales ratios, by industry (dollars unless otherwise noted)
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Manufacturers' sales, inventories, orders and inventory to sales ratios, by industry (dollars unless otherwise noted) — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Table 16100047 provides over 34 years of monthly Canadian manufacturing data (1992–2026), covering 333 NAICS industry classifications across 9 principal statistics including sales, inventories, and orders. Total manufacturing monthly sales averaged ~$32.2 billion with significantKey Findings

Total manufacturing monthly sales averaged ~$32.2 billion (std: $6.3B) from 1992–2026, with Sales of Goods Manufactured growing +126.7% between January 1992 and November 1999 alone.

The dataset is heavily right-skewed: the mean value ($589K) is nearly 7x the median ($83K), driven by large outliers — Total Inventory recorded the highest average ($1.01M) and maximum ($57.8M) of all categories.

New Orders and Sales of Goods Manufactured track closely with similar means (~$757K and ~$748K respectively), confirming strong alignment between demand signals and production output across Canadian manufacturing.

152 instances of extreme year-over-year changes exceeding 30% were detected across industries, with commodity-linked sectors such as petroleum, metals, and forestry products identified as the most volatile.

Inventory-to-sales ratios are tightly distributed on a separate scale (total inventory-to-sales mean: 1.62, range: 0.66–4.48), providing a distinct lens on manufacturing efficiency compared to absolute dollar metrics.

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