MADRID: According to the Spain’s central statistics unit production was 1.1% up in February on the same month last year, reversing the negative result of January and, when seasonal adjustments are made, marking the 18th consecutive month of almost unbroken, although not spectacular, growth.
Most of the improvement in February of this year was due to increases in production of durable consumer goods (5.3%) and equipment (4.2%), while production of intermediate goods and energy rose by 1.7% and 0.3% respectively. The production of short lived consumer goods is dropped by 2.1%.
In terms of the regional variation behind these national figures, the best results were reported in the Balearics and Asturias, where production rose by over 10% compared to last February, while increases of 5.7% and 4.5% were recorded in La Rioja and Castilla-La Mancha respectively. In six regions, though, the index fell in February 2015, the most notable cases being declines of 12.8% in Extremadura, 6% in Cantabria and 3.5% in both Galicia and Castilla y León.
