ANKARA - The State Institute of Statistics (DIE) said that the rate of capacity utilization that is weighted by production value, increased from 80.4 percent in October of 2002 to 80.8 percent in October of 2003, from the primarily provisional result of 828 large scale manufacturing industrial establishments.
DIE announced the result of the monthly tendency survey which reflects view of the establishments in manufacturing industry about production, sales, stocks and prices for the realization in October of 2003.
Comparison of the reasons for not working in full capacity to the same month of the previous year is summarized below:
In October of 2002 In October of 2003
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From 58.9 percent to 48.8 percent Shortage of demands in domestic market
From 12.3 percent to 17.1 percent Shortage of demands in foreign market
From 2.4 percent to 1.9 percent Financial problems
From 2.8 percent to 2.9 percent Shortage of raw domestic materials
From 2.4 percent to 3.5 percent Labor problems
From 1.5 percent to 1.4 percent Shortage of raw imported materials
(UK) 23.11.2003