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  • US Manufacturing Order-Backlog Intelligence (FRED, keyless)

    US manufacturing order backlog, monthly

    Monthly US manufacturing order-backlog intelligence panel, 1992-01 onward: manufacturers' unfilled orders, total manufacturing (millions of dollars, end of period, seasonally adjusted; FRED AMTMUO, U.S. Census Bureau Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders Survey, redistributed keyless via FRED fredgraph.csv). Carries 1-month and 12-month changes (levels and percents), the 3-month annualized percent change, and a contraction_flag marking months with a smaller backlog than a year earlier (demand softening). Method caveats: semiconductor unfilled orders are not collected and nondurable-goods unfilled orders are not published, so this is effectively the durable-goods backlog; Census revises history with each M3 vintage (kept as published, never back-filled); genuine upstream gaps are kept as honest nulls, never imputed. Who joins this: B2B sales teams join backlog_yoy_pct on year_month + country_code as an industrial-demand regime feature; durable-goods shops use backlog momentum for inventory and lead-time planning.

    • manufacturing
    • orders
    • inventories
    • macroeconomics
    rows
    415
    Quality
    100
    Updated
    Oct 1, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    Commercial use OK

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