Malaysia: Quarterly Construction Statistics Second Quarter 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Thursday, 10 August 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE QUARTERLY CONSTRUCTION STATISTICS, SECOND QUARTER 2017
2. Performance of the construction sector . The value of construction work done in the second quarter 2017 recorded double digit growth of 11.2 per cent year-on-year to record RM33.8 billion (Q1 2017: RM35.1 billion). The expansion in value of construction work done was driven by positive growth in all sub-sectors: Civil engineering (19.3%), Special trades activities (11.6%), Non-residential buildings (9.7%) and Residential buildings (3.8%) sub-sector. In terms of contributions, Civil engineering sub-sector continued to dominate the performance of value of construction work done with 35.5 per cent share, followed by Non-residential buildings (31.2%), Residential buildings (28.5%) and Special trades activities (4.8%). The private sector continued to propelled the construction activity with 63.8 per cent share (RM21.6 billion) as compared to the public sector with 36.2 per cent share (RM12.2 billion). *Notes: Data for second quarter 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the publication third quarter 2017. Released By: THE OFFICE OF CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA 10 August 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