Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia July 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Monday, 11 September 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY MANUFACTURING STATISTICS, MALAYSIA JULY 2017*
2. HIGHLIGHTS Manufacturing sector registered a sales value of RM63 .9 billion in July 2017 Malaysia’s July manufacturing sales continues to record a strong growth of 22.2 per cent, rising to RM63.9 billion as compared to RM52.3 billion reported a year ago. Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in July 2017 was due to the increase in Electrical and Electronics Products (27.6%) Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (24.0%) and Non-metallic Mineral Products, Basic Metal and Fabricated Metal Products (10.2%). These three sub-sectors contributed 80.4 per cent to the sales value of the manufacturing sector. Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in July 2017 was 1,054,593 persons, an increase of 2.9 per cent or 29,770 persons as compared to 1,024,823 persons in July 2016. Salaries & wages paid rose 11.3 per cent (RM356.4 million) to record RM3,519.1 million, thus registering an average salaries & wages per employee of RM3,337 in July 2017. Sales value per employee gain 18.7 per cent to record RM60,563 as compared with the same month of the previous year. *Notes: Data for July 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the August 2017 publication. 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