Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia March 2018

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Thursday, 10 May 2018 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY MANUFACTURING STATISTICS, MALAYSIA MARCH 2018*
2. HIGHLIGHTS Manufacturing sector registered a sales value of RM68 .5 billion in March 2018 Malaysia’s March manufacturing sales recorded a growth of 3.9 per cent, rising to RM68.5 billion as compared to RM65.9 billion reported a year ago. Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in March 2018 was due to the increase in Electrical and Electronic Products (10.5%), Food, Beverages and Tobacco Products (5.0%) and Wood, Furniture, Paper Products and Printing (3.5%). Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in March 2018 was 1,068,116 persons, an increase of 2.1 per cent or 22,076 persons as compared to 1,046,040 persons in March 2017. Salaries & wages paid rose 11.9 per cent (RM410.9 million) to record RM3,863.4 million, thus registering an average salaries & wages per employee of RM3,617 in March 2018. Sales value per employee gain 1.7 per cent to record RM64,103 as compared with the same month of the previous year. *Notes: Data for March 2018 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the April 2018 publication. Released By: DATO' SRI DR. MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA DrUzir_Mahidin dr_uzir 10 MAY 2018 Contact person: Ho Mei Kei Public Relation Officer Strategic Communication and International Division Department of Statistics, Malaysia Tel : +603-8885 7942 Fax : +603-8888 9248 Email : mkho[at]dosm.gov.my