Index of Industrial Production Malaysia July 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Monday, September 11, 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, MALAYSIA JULY 2017*
2. Malaysia ’s Index of Industrial Production (IPI) increased substantially by 6.1% in July 2017 The Index of Industrial Production (IPI) increased substantially by 6.1 percent in July 2017 compared to the same month of the previous year. The growth was driven by positive growth in all sectors: Manufacturing (8.0%), Electricity (7.9%) and Mining (0.2%). The Manufacturing output grew significantly by 8.0 percent in July 2017 after registered an increase of 4.7 percent in June 2017. The expansion was mainly due to higher growth in major sub-sectors namely: Electrical and Electronics Products (10.5%); Food, Beverages and Tobacco (19.2%); and Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (3.9%). The mining sector output increased by 0.2 percent in July 2017 (June 2017: 2.4%) due to an increase of 5.5 percent in the index for Natural Gas. However the index for Crude Oil fell by 3.9 percent in July 2017. The Electricity output increased strongly by 7.9 percent in July 2017 after recorded an increase of 2.1 percent in June 2017. *Notes: Data for July 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the publication August 2017. Released By: DR. MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA 11 SEPTEMBER 2017 Contact person: Ho Mei Kei Public Relation Officer Corporate and User Services Division Department of Statistics, Malaysia Tel : +603-8885 7942 Fax : +603-8888 9248 Email : mkho[at]stats.gov.my