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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 8B5 Confederation of British Industry, Industrial Trends Survey, 1992-19971 |
(percentage) |
1992 |
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
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| Capacity utilisation | ||||||
| Percentage of firms operating below capacity: | ||||||
| Scotland | 62 |
49 |
51 |
44 |
50 |
37 |
| UK | 70 |
61 |
53 |
46 |
52 |
48 |
| Investment | ||||||
| Net percent of firms intending to invest more (+)/less(-) over | ||||||
| coming year than in past year in: | ||||||
| Building | -34 |
-1 |
-13 |
-6 |
-5 |
-11 |
| Plant/Machinery | -18 |
7 |
14 |
14 |
11 |
9 |
| Constraints on output | ||||||
| Percentage of firms expecting output to be limited over the next four months by constraints of: | ||||||
| Orders or Sales | 92 |
81 |
77 |
74 |
80 |
69 |
| Labour: skilled | 8 |
5 |
9 |
10 |
10 |
13 |
| other | 1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| Credit/finance | 6 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
| Materials and components | 2 |
6 |
5 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
Source: Confederation of British Industry |
| 1 Annual figures are the average of the quarterly survey results. |
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