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CHAPTER 5 : ACTIVITY IN SELECTED SECTORS
Manufacturing
5.1
As the quantity of electricity consumed by the
manufacturing sector in the first quarter was only
only about 18
higher than in the corresponding period of 1981,
of 1981, there was
probably not much increase in activity in the manufacturing
sector, a view confirmed by the figures on domestic exports.
On the basis of electricity consumed, the performance of
individual industries within the manufacturing sector varied.
Although consumption by the electrical goods, toys and
electronics industries increased, for some other industries,
notably the textiles industry, it fell.
5.2
Indexes of production are available for the textiles
industry. Although they showed some improvement in the fourth
quarter compared with the third quarter, production in 1981
was generally lower than in 1980. The indexes for the first
quarter of 1982 were not available at the time of writing this
report.
Indexes of textile production (1973 =100)
Spinning
and weaving
Spinning
Weaving
1980 Q1
1981 Q1
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114
113
117
Q2
112
110
115
03
100
99
101
Q4
107
101
117
87
78
100
Q2
100
92
111
Q3
94
89
102
Q4
95
88
105
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