Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia May 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY MANUFACTURING STATISTICS, MALAYSIA MAY 2017*
2. HIGHLIGHTS Manufacturing Sales registered RM61 .9 billion in May 2017 Malaysia’s May manufacturing sales continues to record a strong growth of 19.5%, rising to RM61.9 billion as compared to RM51.8 billion reported a year ago. Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in May 2017 was due to the increase in Electrical and Electronics Products (24.0%) Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (20.5%) and Non-metallic Mineral Products, Basic Metal and Fabricated Metal (13.3%). These three sub-sectors contributed 79.8% to the sales value of the manufacturing sector. Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in May 2017 was 1,051,923 persons, an increase of 2.7% or 27,164 persons as compared to 1,024,759 persons in May 2016. Salaries & wages paid in May 2017 increased by 13.3% (RM405.8 million) to record RM3,464.2 million. Sales value per employee increased by 16.4% to record RM58,863 as compared with the same month of the previous year. *Notes: Data for May 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the June 2017 publication. Released By: DR MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA 12 JULY 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