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
