CHAPTER 5: ACTIVITY IN SELECTED SECTORS
Manufacturing
5.1
a whole
Activity in the manufacturing sector as remained rather sluggish in the third quarter. The declines
in domestic exports in real terms (paragraph 2.1) and in the
retained imports of raw materials and semi-manufactures and of capital goods (paragraph 2.7) confirmed this. During the same
period, the quantity of electricity consumed by the
manufacturing sector showed little change.
5.2
The indexes of industrial production for the spinning
and weaving industries for the first half of 1982 indicate
that textiles production was 13% lower than in the first half
of 1981. Although the indexes for the third quarter are not
yet available, there are signs that the decline has
the industry's
For
instance,
continued.
electricity
consumption in the third quarter was 12% below that in the
corresponding period of 1981.
Indexes of textile production
(1973
= 100)
Spinning and
weaving
Spinning
Weaving
1980
21
114
113
117
22
112
110
115
23
100
99
101
24
107
101
117
1981
21
87
78
100
22
100
92
111
Q3
94
89
102
24
95
88
105
1982 21
76
71
83
22
85
81
95
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