Index of Production, April 2015

10 Jun 2015 01:40 PM

Main points

• Total production output is estimated to have increased by 1.2% in April 2015 compared with April 2014.There were increases in all 4 main sectors, with the largest contribution coming from mining & quarrying, which increased by 6.2%.
• Manufacturing output increased by 0.2% in April 2015 compared with April 2014. The largest contribution to the increase came from the manufacture of transport equipment.
• Total production output is estimated to have increased by 0.4% in April 2015 compared with March 2015. There were increases in 2 of the 4 main sectors, with the largest contribution coming from mining & quarrying, which increased by 5.6%.
• Manufacturing output decreased by 0.4% in April 2015 compared with March 2015. The largest contribution to the decrease in manufacturing came from basic pharmaceutical products & pharmaceutical preparations.
• In the 3 months to April 2015, production and manufacturing were 9.5% and 4.4% respectively below their figures reached in the pre-downturn gross domestic product (GDP) peak in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008.
• In this release, the earliest period open for revision was January 2014, in line with the National Accounts revisions policy. There was minimal impact on previously published GDP estimates resulting from revisions to these periods.

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