Madrid (EFE) non-durable consumption.
The industrial production index (IPI) for May published this Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE) shows a rate 4.4 points higher than that of April (-4.2%), with which the irregular trend of the year, with increases in January (1.4%) and March (5.4%) and decreases in February (0.5%) and April.
The sectors that boosted industrial production in May were capital goods (which grew by 8.1%) and non-durable consumption (3.3%), since all the others fell: energy by 5%; durable consumer goods, 4.4%, and intermediate goods, 4.3%.
The detailed data show that the branches of activity that increased the most were the extractive industries (33.4%), the manufacture of motor vehicles (19.2%), the production of other transport material (17.8%) and clothing manufacturing (16.5%).
On the contrary, the wood and cork industry contracted sharply (15.8%), the manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products (13.2%) and the coke ovens and oil refining (10.7% ).
Increase in nine autonomous communities
Industrial production increased in May in nine autonomous communities, led by Castilla y León (8%), Canarias (7.3%) and Aragón (5.8%), while it fell in eight, especially in Extremadura (16 .4%), Murcia (6.2%) and Cantabria (5.4%).
After correcting the data for seasonal and calendar effects, the IPI shows a fall of 0.1%, a drop nine tenths softer than that of April (1%) but which represents the second consecutive month of decline.
In monthly terms, industrial production in May was 0.6% higher than that of April, a month in which it had fallen by 1.9%, thanks to the growth of capital goods and consumer goods, both durable and non-durable.