Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing maintained a year-on-year growth as it posted 16.2 percent increase in August 2010, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). This was accounted for by 13 major sectors with two-digit increment in production values exhibited by the following: petroleum products, transport equipment, leather products, miscellaneous manufactures, beverages, electrical machinery, machinery except electrical, basic metal, fabricated metal products, rubber and plastic products, non-metallic mineral products, paper and paper products and publishing and printing. Refer to Tables 1-A and 1.
