Calendar-adjusted industrial production increased by 2.9 percent in March when compared with March last year, while seasonally- and calendar-adjusted industrial production decreased by 0.5 percent compared with February.
Among the sub-sectors of the industry, while the mining and quarrying index decreased 3.8 percent, the manufacturing index increased by 3.4 percent and the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply index increased by 2.6 percent for March 2016, when compared with March 2015.
For March 2016 compared with February, the mining and quarrying index decreased by 3.2 percent, the manufacturing index decreased by 0.4 percent and the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply index decreased by 0.2 percent.