The industrial production of the A.C. of Euskadi in January 2002 remained practically at the same level as the year before, as the inter-annual rate, which covers the variation of the last twelve months, did not vary at all (0.0%).

In January 2002 the most positive inter-annual variations corresponded to the sectors of "Leather and footwear industry" (12.6%), "Metal and non-metal minerals" (12.0%), "Electric energy, gas and water" (11.6%), "Textiles and clothing" (11.4%), "Food industry" (11.0%), "Chemicals industry" (5.0%), "Other manufactured" (4.8%) and "Transport material" (3.9%).

The sectors that registered negative inter-annual growth rates were "Oil Refining" (-15.9%), "Metallurgy and metal articles" (-7.1%), "Electric material" (-4.9%) and "Paper, publishing and graphic arts" (-4.6%).

By economic destination of the goods, rates increased in January 2002 for Capital Goods (1.6%) and Consumer Goods (1.0%), but fell for Intermediate Goods (-1.3%).

The performance of the General Index of Industrial Production was differing for the three provinces. On the one hand, there was a significant increase of 2.5% in the province of Alava, and on the other, slight decreases of 0.4% and 0.9% were registered in Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia respectively, partly as a result of the decrease registered by the oil refining sector in the latter province.

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