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A spokesman of the department pointed out that caution should be exercised in interpreting the manufacturers' orders-on-hand figures in a single month. Instead, the trend movement of the series as displayed over a wider span of time points should be looked at.

The survey report for November 1995, at $6 a copy, is now available for sale at the Government Publications Centre, Queensway Government Offices, Low Block, ground floor, 66 Queensway and the Census and Statistics Department Publications Unit, 19th Floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai.

Enquiries about the survey results may be made to the Industrial Production Statistics Section of the Census and Statistics Department on 2805 6441.

The following table shows the year-on-year percentage changes in the value of orders-on-hand in different manufacturing industries.

Percentage changes in the value of orders-on-hand in

October 1995

November 1995

over October 1994 over November 1994

All industries covered in the survey

(Revised)

+5

(Provisional)

+4

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Wearing apparel

-1

- Textiles

-15

-20

- Electronic products

+14

+17

- Electrical products

+21

+12

- Fabricated metal products

+14

+9

- Plastic products

+1

-1

- Printing and publishing

+19

+14

* Changes within +/-0.5%

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