Index of Production, February 2015

10 Apr 2015 12:49 PM

Main points

• Total production output is estimated to have increased by 0.1% in February 2015 compared with February 2014. There were increases in 2 of the 4 main sectors, with manufacturing output being the largest contributor, increasing by 1.1%.
• There were increases in 9 of the 13 manufacturing sub-sectors compared with a year ago and the largest contributor was the manufacture of transport equipment, increasing by 6.1%.
• Total production output increased by 0.1% in February 2015 compared with January 2015. There were increases in 3 of the 4 main sectors, with manufacturing being the largest contributor, increasing by 0.4%.
• The main components contributing to the month-on-month increase in manufacturing were the manufacture of transport equipment, the manufacture of machinery & equipment not elsewhere classified and the manufacture of basic metals & metal products.
• In the 3 months to February 2015, production and manufacturing were 10.4% and 4.9% respectively below their figures reached in the pre-downturn GDP peak in Quarter 1, Jan to Mar 2008.
• In this release, the only period open for revision was January 2015, in line with the National Accounts revisions policy. There was no impact on previously published GDP estimates resulting from revisions to this period.

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