Index of Production and Index of Construction, Quarter 4 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 including new data for the three months to December 2009 relating to quarter 4.

Statistics on the Index of Production and Construction include data for Wales and the UK for the period up to Quarter 4 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 12 January 2010.

The key messages from the release are:

• The longer term trend for the Index of Production for Wales shows a fall of 13.6 per cent when comparing the latest four quarters to the previous four quarters.  The UK figures show a fall of 10.2 per cent over the same period. The short term quarterly movements show a fall of 1.3 per cent for Wales and a rise of 0.3 per cent for the UK.
• The longer term trend for the Index of Construction for Wales shows a fall of 11.7 per cent when comparing the latest four quarters to the previous four quarters. The UK figures show a fall of 9.3 per cent over the same period. The short term quarterly movements in the construction industry indicate a fall for both Wales and the UK of 1.3 per cent and 0.9 per cent respectively.

The tables on the StatsWales website will be updated in due course.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5208
E-mail: economic.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

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