The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing rose by 3.7 percent in September 2018 compared with the negative growth rate of 6.2 percent in the same month of the previous year, based from the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI).
Significant increases in VaPI were attributed to the eight major industry groups that exhibited two-digit growth, namely: textiles (51.3%), petroleum products (50.3%), miscellaneous manufactures (21.5%), machinery except electrical (18.2%), transport equipment (17.7%), electrical machinery (17.4%), paper and paper products (16.7%) and beverages (13.6%). Refer to Tables1-A and 1.
