Table 2: Year-on-year percentage changes in the producer price indices by industry group
(2000 = 100)



      % change
Industry group  
3rd Qtr. 2003
compared with
3rd Qtr. 2002
(
Revised)
4th Qtr. 2003
compared with
4th Qtr. 2002
(
Provisional)
2003
compared with
200
2
(Provisional)

1. Wearing apparel (except footwear)   +0.2 -0.1 -0.1
2. Textiles (including knitting)   -0.2 +1.0 -0.1
3. Paper products and printing   -1.7 -0.6 -1.7
4. Plastic products   +2.6 +5.5 +2.7
5. Fabricated metal products   -3.3 -1.3 -2.9
  (except machinery and equipment)
6. Consumer electrical and electronic products   -2.3 -2.1 -1.7
7. Machinery, equipment, apparatus, parts and components   +0.5 -3.2 -1.5
8. Other manufacturing industries   +0.7 +3.7 +0.7
All manufacturing industries   ## +0.9 -0.3

Note :   The Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification (HSIC) is used to form the industry groups. For the coverage of the industry groups in terms of HSIC codes, please refer to the 'Quarterly Producer Price Indices for Manufacturing Industries, 4th Quarter 2003' report.

      ## Change within +/-0.05%.