Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia April 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Friday, 9 June 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY MANUFACTURING STATISTICS, MALAYSIA APRIL 2017*
2. HIGHLIGHTS Manufacturing Sales registered RM60 .5 billion in April 2017 Malaysia’s April manufacturing sales continues to record a strong growth of 15.6%, rising to RM60.5 billion as compared to RM52.3 billion reported a year ago. Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in April 2017 was due to the increase in Electrical and Electronics Products (17.3%) Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (18.2%) and Non-metallic Mineral Products, Basic Metal and Fabricated Metal (12.3%). These three sub-sectors contributed 80.1% to the sales value of the manufacturing sector. Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in April 2017 was 1,047,310 persons, an increase of 2.6% or 26,346 persons as compared to 1,020,964 persons in April 2016. Salaries & wages paid in April 2017 increased by 10.5% (RM330.2 million) to record RM3,472.3 million. Sales value per employee increased by 12.7% to record RM57,757 as compared with the same month of the previous year. *Notes: Data for April 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the May 2017 publication. Released By: DR MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA 9 JUNE 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