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| Business Conditions Survey, manufacturing industries: Production prospects balance of opinion for select industries | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | April 2006 | July 2006 | October 2006 | January 2007 | |
| Major group industries | Seasonally adjusted | ||||
| Non-durable goods | -5 | -5 | 15 | 1 | 12 |
| Food | 0 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 18 |
| Chemical | 19 | -1 | 17 | 9 | 4 |
| Petroleum and coal products | -63 | 15 | 54 | 57 | 15 |
| Paper | -1 | -2 | -2 | -13 | 18 |
| Plastic and rubber products | 13 | 0 | 5 | -25 | -28 |
| Durable goods | 13 | -28 | -9 | -10 | -2 |
| Transportation equipment | -2 | -33 | -11 | -10 | -22 |
| Primary metal | 25 | 3 | 10 | -22 | 14 |
| Wood products | 3 | -2 | -1 | -12 | -6 |
| Fabricated metal products | 3 | 11 | 0 | -10 | 8 |
| Machinery | 8 | 3 | -9 | 1 | -1 |
| Computer and electronic products | -28 | 12 | -6 | -18 | -30 |
| Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing industries | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | April 2006 | July 2006 | October 2006 | January 2007 | |||
| Seasonally adjusted | |||||||
| Volume of production during next three months compared with last three months will be: | |||||||
| About the same (%) | 69 | 58 | 60 | 62 | 59 | ||
| Higher (%) | 15 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 18 | ||
| Lower (%) | 16 | 27 | 20 | 22 | 23 | ||
| Balance of opinion | -1 | -12 | 0 | -6 | -5 | ||
| Orders received are: | |||||||
| About the same (%) | 70 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 51 | ||
| Rising (%) | 15 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 25 | ||
| Declining (%) | 15 | 20 | 14 | 23 | 23 | ||
| Balance of opinion | 0 | -4 | 4 | -13 | 2 | ||
| Present backlog of unfilled orders is: | |||||||
| About normal (%) | 65 | 70 | 82 | 71 | 68 | ||
| Higher than Normal (%) | 14 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 11 | ||
| Lower than Normal (%) | 20 | 18 | 10 | 24 | 22 | ||
| Balance of opinion | -6 | -6 | -2 | -19 | -11 | ||
| Finished product inventory on hand is: | |||||||
| About right (%) | 75 | 83 | 84 | 81 | 77 | ||
| Too low (%) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||
| Too high1(%) | 21 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 20 | ||
| Balance of opinion | -17 | -14 | -10 | -9 | -17 | ||
| Employment during the next three months will: | |||||||
| Change little (%) | 73 | 71 | 68 | 65 | 66 | ||
| Increase (%) | 13 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | ||
| Decrease (%) | 14 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 19 | ||
| Balance of opinion | -1 | -3 | -2 | -5 | -4 | ||
| Unadjusted | |||||||
| % | |||||||
| Sources of production difficulties | |||||||
| Working capital shortage | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Skilled labour shortage | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||
| Unskilled labour shortage | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Raw material shortage | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Other difficulties | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||
| No difficulties | 81 | 79 | 77 | 72 | 77 | ||
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