Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia - November 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Thursday, 11 January 2018 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY MANUFACTURING STATISTICS, MALAYSIA NOVEMBER 2017*
2. HIGHLIGHTS Manufacturing sector registered a sales value of RM66 .6 billion in November 2017 Malaysia’s November manufacturing sales continues to record a strong growth of 10.9 per cent, rising to RM66.6 billion as compared to RM60.1 billion reported a year ago. Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in November 2017 was due to the increase in Electrical and Electronic Products (8.8%), Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (17.8%) and Non-metallic Mineral Products, Basic Metal and Fabricated Metal Products (4.8%). These three sub-sectors contributed 79.7 per cent to the sales value of the manufacturing sector. Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in November 2017 was 1,054,705 persons, an increase of 2.3 per cent or 23,960 persons as compared to 1,030,745 persons in November 2016. Salaries & wages paid rose 9.2 per cent (RM297.2 million) to record RM3,530.0 million, thus registering an average salaries & wages per employee of RM3,347 in November 2017. Sales value per employee gain 8.4 per cent to record RM63,186 as compared with the same month of the previous year. *Notes: Data for November 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the December 2017 publication. Released By: DATO' SRI DR. MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA 11 JANUARY 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]stats.gov.my