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The
National Statistical Institute (INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas)
reports:
In August, industrial
production dropped 1.0% compared to the same month last year. In the
period from January 2002 to August 2002, the industrial production index
experienced an expansion of 1.4% compared with the same period last year. Moreover, the moving quarterly and
annual averages show increases of 1.9% and 1.1% respectively.
It should be noted that
August this year counted one working day less than August 2001, which
reduced the above mentioned results.
Additional information
available in
Spanish.
More detailed information
available at the National Statistical
Institute (INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas).
Forecasts: This indicator is covered in the
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