“On a month-on-month basis, the IPI increased by 8.6% supported by expansion in all component of indices,” said chief statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin.
PETALING JAYA: The country’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) grew 5.1% year-on-year in March, steered by a 6.9% growth in the manufacturing sector, according to the Statistics Department.
“The expansion of IPI was contributed by all three sectors, namely manufacturing index, electricity index (0.8% increase) and mining index (0.3% increase).
