349.3 353.3 359.6 370.3 Ratio of private inventories to final sales of domestic business Private inventories to final sales 2.30 2.30 2.28 2.27 2.26 2.23 Nonfarm inventories to final sales 2.13 2.12 2.10 2.09 2.09 2.06 Nonfarm inventories to final sales of goods and structures 3.77 3.74 3.73 3.71 3.70 3.61 1.
Inventories are as of the end of the quarter.
Quarterly totals at monthly rates. Final sales of domestic business equals final sales of domestic product less gross product of households and institutions and of general government, and it includes a small amount of final sales by farm and by government enterprises. The residual line is the difference between the first line and the sum of the most detailed lines for inventories.