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Data Collection Sources: Locations where industrial goods and services produced.
Index of Industrial Production: An index that measures relative changes and reflects thedevelopment in the volume of production of materials and goods.
Laspeyres Formula:  The mathematical equation (developed by Statistician Laspeyres) whichcomputes the index using the weighted value levels with base periodweights.
Industrial Production: Theprocess of converting raw materials (inputs) into consumables in their finalform in the form of goods (outputs) in order to achieve a material return forthe facility.
Manufacturing industry: Physical and chemical transformation of materials, items, or ingredients toform new products and materials. The transferred materials are mostly rawmaterials from agriculture, mining, quarrying or products of othermanufacturing industries, specialized maintenance of industrial andcommercial machinery and equipment. Repairing such is within themanufacturing industry, but the repair of computers and personal andhousehold commodities not considered within the manufacturing industry.  Assembling parts resulted by manufacturingindustries is considered a manufacturing industry.
Base Period: Theperiod that compared to the current period.
Weights: Itrepresents the relative distribution of manufacturing industries valueswithin the country according to the main categories, sections, and groupsthat are components of commodities according to the International StandardIndustrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4.  The weights used in calculations that usethe Laspeyres Equation.
Base Value Theproduction values of goods and materials over a period of time in which thecurrent values are compared.
Commodity Frame: Thecategory of commodities that are part of the industrial production systemclassified according to the International Standard Industrial Classificationof All Economic Activities, Rev.4.
International Standard Industrial Classification for All EconomicActivities (ISIC): The international reference forproductive activities. The main purpose of this classification is to providea range of categories for activities that can used to collect and classifystatistics according to these activities in a format designed for the purposeof economic analysis. Classification consists of a coherent and consistentstructure of economic activities based on an internationally agreed-upon setof concepts, definitions, principles and classification rules.