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The ONS measures construction output from the activity of business in Britain, not including Northern Ireland, which conducts its own equivalent survey.
Distrust of the GDP numbers has prompted Capital Economics, a research firm based in London, to create its own proxy of economic activity, which includes electricity output, domestic freight volumes, cargo traffic at ports, passenger transport and floor area under construction.
Once they concern large swathes of economic output and the cognitive activity of millions of people, it is difficult to keep the government out.
To explain the graph a bit more clearly, the X axis is months and years, while the Y axis is the volume of industrial activity as a percentage of the average monthly output of 2009 (which, it should be noted, was depressed as a result of the global financial crisis).
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But there was still an increase in the backlog of orders to be completed as power shortages hurt production activity, which could give a further boost to output next month.
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Manufacturing activity, which accounts for almost two-thirds of overall output, fell 1.5% from a year earlier.
Some now predict that the blow to Cyprus's financial sector, which accounts for about half of economic activity, combined with an existing credit squeeze, will send output into a tailspin.
With some of the largest oil and gas companies holding massive amounts of cash while dealing with declining output, questions and rumors about increased energy sector mergers and acquisitions activity are to be expected.
There is no breakdown between public and private sector activity for the second quarter, but the first quarter numbers show public housing output down 18% on the year, and public non-housing output (schools, for example) down 21% on the first quarter of 2011.
What it would do is shift economic activity from the less productive government sector to the more productive private sector, thereby stimulating aggregate output and growth.
These sources have been combined with agricultural output data and employee jobs data for the public sector to provide a measure of change in local economic activity.
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