Index of Production and Index of Construction for Wales: Quarter 2, 2009

The Index of Production and the Index of Construction for Wales show the short term movements in the output of industries in the production and construction sectors within Wales for the three months from April to June 2009.

Statistics on the Index of Production and Construction include data for Wales and the UK for the period up to Quarter 2 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 9 July 2009.

The key messages from the release are:

• The longer term trend for the Index of Production for Wales show a fall of nearly 8 per cent when comparing the latest twelve months to the previous twelve months.  The UK figures show a similar pattern. The short term quarterly movements also show a fall.
• The longer term trend for the Index of Construction for Wales shows construction output has continued to fall over the last year.  Short term quarterly movements in the construction industry indicate a rise of just over 2 per cent in Wales, however it is too early to say if this will be sustained.

Further information can be found on the StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5701
E-mail: economic.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

January 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)