Central Organization for Statistics

and Information Technology

Manufacturing Industries Index rose by (6.3%) for the year 2007

        Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology in the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation achieves the index number report of manufacturing industries production quantity for the year 2007, which is one of the important statistical measures leads to follow up production volume and know its trends to estimate indicators of national accounts at constant prices.
The publication and public relations directorate in the Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology declare in press release... The report included an indicator shows that the general index of industrial production quantity has reached (42.5 percent) in 2007, to record an increase at rate about (6.3 percent) compare with the index of 2006 that amounted (40.0 %).
The statement clarify, that the reason for index rise due to increase indices of both food industry, which had risen at rate about (5.2 percent) and industry of carbonated beverages and Tobacco rose by (16.2 percent), industry of textile, clothes and footwear increased by rate about (3.9 %), wood and paper industry and products increased by (8.2 percent) while  the chemical industry and oil index number rose by ( 6.9 percent), the nonmetallic industries witnessed increase of rate about(6.8 percent), and other manufacturing industries had been rose by (5.8 percent).
The press release reveal, that goods basket covered by index number of production quantity in the manufacturing industries have been selected relying on the same commodity of index number for input and output of the manufacturing industry, So (195) industrial products have been selected according to the value of each product within each sub-industry, where the contribution of those selected units within each sub-industry more than (80 percent) from total value of gross sub-industry