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A spokesman of the department said 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 March 1996, at $7 a copy, is now on sale at the Government Publications Centre, Queensway Government Offices, Low Block, ground floor, Queensway, and at 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
February 1996
over February 1995
(Revised)
March 1996 over March 1995 (Provisional)
All industries covered in the survey
+1
-3
Wearing apparel
-3
-3
Textiles
-8
-9
Electronic products
+5
-1
Electrical products
+8
+3
Fabricated metal products
+25
+11
Plastic products
-3
-10
Printing and publishing
-4
-2
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