4.2% Decrease Industrial Production Quantities during September 2018
The monthly report issued by the Department of Statistics indicates a decrease in the General Industrial Production Quantities for Sep 2018 to reach 94.5 against 98.6 for the same month of 2017 recording a decrease by 4.2%. This mainly was a result of a decrease in the production quantities of manufacturing industries by 4.11 percentage points with a relative importance of 86.0% ,the production quantities of the quarrying Industries by 0.02 percentage points with a relative importance of 8.2% and the quantities of electricity production by 0.06 percentage points with a relative importance of 5.8%.
The report also indicates a decrease in the industrial index number of the industrial production for Sep 2018 to reach 94.5 against 95.3 for Aug of the same year to retreat by 0.9%.This has resulted mainly from a decrease in the production quantities of the manufacturing Industries by 0.51 percentage points with a relative importance of 86.0% ,the quantities of quarrying production by 0.05 percentage points with a relative importance of 8.2% and the quantities of electricity production by 0.31 percentage points with a relative importance of 5.8%
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