Monthly Survey of Mining and Manufacturing

Overview

Overview

Title	Monthly Survey of Mining and Manufacturing
Type of statistics	Designated and surveyed statistics
Purpose	To provide basic data for analyzing monthly economic trends, estimating GDP and GRDP, and measuring labor productivity by indexing changes in the production, shipment and inventory of Mining, Manufacturing, Electricity & Gas Supply and Publishing industries. To provide basic data on the current status and forecast of supply & demand of selected items by measuring the production, shipment and inventory of surveyed items. To produce the Production Capacity Index which represents the production capacity of major items in the Manufacturing industry, and the Operation Ratio Index which represents how much equipment is being used.
Periodicity	Every 5 years
History	Aug. 1957: Produced the Industrial Production Index of 1955 for the first time (the Bank of Korea) Index revision as of 1958 and 1960 Drew up special classification indices from 1965 Drew up the Shipment Index from 1966 (Korea Development Bank) Jan. 1969: Transferred the Survey to the Korea Development Bank Mar. 1970: Current Mining and Manufacturing Survey announced as designated statistics (approval No. 10111) Jul. 1970: Transferred the Survey to the National Bureau of Statistics, Economic Planning Board (the predecessor of the KNSO) Index revision as of 1970, 1975 and 1980 Jul. 1988: Index revision as of 1985 (drew up the Industrial Production Index by province) Mar. 1993: Index revision as of 1990 (added Gas Supply and drew up seasonally adjusted index by province) Oct. 1997: Index revision as of 1995 (drew up indices by size of business and type of industry) Dec. 2002: Index revision as of 2000 (drew up the ICT Index of Manufacturing) Feb.2008: Index revision as of 2005 Jul. 2008: Integrated the Survey of Manufacturing Production Capacity & Operation Ratio into the Monthly Survey of Mining and Manufacturing

Data Provision

Data Provision

Announcement method	News releases and Internet: End of the following month Monthly Report on the Industrial Production Statistics: 6 weeks after the reference month Annual Report on the Industrial Production Statistics: May-June of the following year
Announcement periodicity	Monthly
Publication title	Monthly Report on the Industrial Production Statistics: Two months after the reference month Annual Report on the Industrial Production Statistics: May-June of the following year