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Industrial output increased 8.2 per cent in gross series January through October this year compared with the same period of 2016, processing industry contributing the most to this result, showed the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Wednesday.
Moreover, industrial output grew 8.8 per cent, as adjusted series depending on the number of business days and seasonality, in the first ten months of 2017, compared with the previous year, due to growths recorded in the processing industry (+9 per cent), drilling industry (+5.4 per cent), the production and supply of electricity and heat, gas, hot water and air conditioning (+1.8 per cent).
The INS data show that, in October, industrial output (gross series) increased 4.5 per cent from the previous months, due to growths recorded in the processing industry (+4.7 per cent), production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, hot water and air conditioning (+4.3 per cent). On the other hand, the drilling industry dropped 2.1 per cent.
At the same time, industrial output increased 1 per cent, as adjusted series depending on the number of business days and seasonality, against the previous months, which growth was triggered by increase facing the processing industry (+2.4 per cent). Production and supply of electricity and heat, gas, hot water and air conditioning and drilling industry dropped 4.1 per cent and 4 per cent respectively in the said interval.
Industrial output also increased 11.6 per cent, as gross series, compared with the previous month's results, growth triggered by the increase recorded in the processing industry (+12.9 per cent) and drilling industry (+7.9 per cent). Production and supply of electricity and heat, gas, hot water and air conditioning dropped 2.2 per cent.
Industrial output increased 9.6 percent as adjusted series depending on the number of business days and seasonality, due to advances in the processing industry (+10.1 per cent) and the mining industry (+8.1 per cent). Production and supply of electricity and heat, gas, hot water and air conditioning dropped 1.7 per cent.
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