Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis continued to gain by 12.9 percent in May 2005, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). This was brought about by the double-digit increases of nine (9) major sectors, as follows: petroleum products, publishing and printing, furniture and fixtures, transport equipment, basic metals, tobacco, textile, chemical products and non-metallic mineral products.Refer to Tables 1-A and 1.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis continued to rise as it posted an increase of 13.1 percent in July 2005, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). Sectors that contributed largely to the increase were petroleum products, furniture and fixtures, chemical products, textile, electrical machinery, paper and paper products and rubber products.Refer to Tables 1-A and 1.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) registers slight gain

For February 2002, Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry posted a slight gain of 1.5 percent compared to year ago figure according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). Major sources of increase were from publishing and printing, electrical machinery, chemical products, and food manufacturing (see Annex 1-A).