Monthly Survey of Mining and Manufacturing

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Overview

Survey Name

• Monthly Survey of Mining and Manufacturing

Survey Type

• Survey statistics

Type of Statistics

• Designated statistics (No.101011)

Purpose

• To produce the Production Capacity Index, the Manufacturing Capacity Index, and Utilization Rate by measuring the production, shipment and inventory of surveyed items in Mining, Manufacturing, Electricity & Gas and Water Supply industries.

Frequency

• Monthly

Target Population

• The Mining, Manufacturing, Electricity & Gas and Water Supply industries based on the Korean Standard Industrial Classification (10th revision)

Survey Unit and Target Population Size

• Survey unit: each establishment
• Target population: around 7,300 establishments

Survey Reference Period and Date

• Data collection period: 1st day to the last day of a month
• Reference date: the last day of a month

History

• Aug. 1957: Produced the Industrial Production Index of 1955 for the first time (The Bank of Korea)
• Jan. 1969: Transferred the Survey to the Korea Development Bank
• March 1970: Current Mining and Manufacturing Survey announced as designated statistics (approval No. 10111)
• July 1970: Transferred the Survey to the National Bureau of Statistics, Economic Planning Board (the predecessor of the Statistics Korea)
• Index revision as of 1970, 1975 and 1980
• July 1988: Index revision as of 1985 (drew up the Industrial Production Index by province)
• March 1993: Index revision as of 1990 (added Gas Supply and drew up seasonally adjusted indexes 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
• July 2008: Integrated the Survey of Manufacturing Production Capacity & Capacity Utilization Rate
• Oct. 2008: Changed the survey title into "Monthly Survey of Mining and Manufacturing"
• Feb. 2010: Added the survey item of an establishment's utilization rate and total output amount
• Jan. 2013: Added the item of total output of a survey month for flash index and deleted the item of total output amount for utilization rate
• Feb. 2013: Index revision as of 2010
• Nov. 2013: Added the survey item of the number of working days in relation to the production of the flash index
• Dec. 2016: Deleted the survey items of total output and the number of working days in relation to the production of the flash index
• Mar. 2018: Deleted the survey item of the production capacity of establishments
• Mar. 2018: Index revision with 2015 as the base year (compiled the chain index and introduced a value-based valuation method)

Survey Item

• Production, shipment, inventory, amount, production capacity per item, establishment utilization rate, manufacturing status, remark (reason of increase and decrease, characteristics of an establishment)

Survey Method

• On-site interview by enumerators;
• Self-completed questionnaires (i.e. CASI or network device)

Survey System

• Establishment → Surveyor → Regional Offices of Statistics and District Offices of Statistics→ Short-Term Industry Statistics Division of Statistics Korea

Data Provision

Method of Publication and URL

• News releases, Statistics Korea webpage (https://kostat.go.kr), KOSIS (https://kosis.kr)

Publication Frequency

• Monthly

Publication Title

• Monthly Report: Mining production index, production, shipment, inventory, production capacity, utilization survey

Contact

Director for International Cooperation. Tel: