RAMALLAH, May 4, 2011 (WAFA) - The overall industrial production index (IPI) in the Palestinian Territory with its base month January 2011=100 reached 106.13 in March 2011, Wednesday said the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

The IPI for March indicated an increase by 5.94% compared with February.

The rise of the index was traced to changes in the quantity of  mining and quarrying, whose relative share was 4.6% and which went down by 14.29; manufacturing (relative share 80.5%), which increased by 5.96%; and water supply and electricity (relative share 14.9%), which also increased by 12.72%.

Relative share for the main industrial activities represents the percentage distribution of value added (VA) for the industrial institutions in 2009 in addition to the VA of olive presses.

M.A.