Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia - March 2017

Transcription

1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Thursday, 11 May 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY MANUFACTURING STATISTICS, MALAYSIA MARCH 2017*
2. HIGHLIGHTS Manufacturing Sales registered RM65 .9 billion in March 2017 Malaysia’s March manufacturing sales recorded a strong growth of 13.6% (RM7.9 billion), rising to RM65.9 billion as compared to RM58.0 billion reported a year ago. Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in March 2017 was due to the increase in Electrical and Electronics Products (11.7%) Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (17.9%) and Non-metallic Mineral Products, Basic Metal and Fabricated Metal (10.1%). These three sub-sectors contributed 80.0% to the sales value of the manufacturing sector. Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in March 2017 was 1,046,040 persons, an increase of 2.1% or 21,865 persons as compared to 1,024,175 persons in March 2016. Salaries & wages paid in March 2017 increased by 7.8% (RM248.4 million) to record RM3,452.5 million. Sales value per employee increased by 11.2% to record RM63,008 as compared with the same month of the previous year. *Notes: Data for March 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the April 2017 publication. Released By: DR MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA 11 MAY 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