0 used to describe an activity that does not involve making products:
Profits in the non-manufacturing sector, particularly at banks and other service-related industries, are still headed downward.
Figures for non-manual workers in the non-manufacturing private sector are not available.
Information is not available for non-manufacturing industries or for areas below regional level.
In engineering and non-manufacturing, there is a bit of a turn up after 1992.
It relates to the investments of insurance companies and pension funds in company securities, including the securities of non-manufacturing companies.
But that is not to say that the service and non-manufacturing sectors have not made a useful contribution.
The ratios are calculated separately for companies with mixed activities in manufacturing, with mixed activities in non-manufacturing and for 27 other industrial groups.
It indicates quite clearly that even where there are gains in the week's figures, they are always in the non-manufacturing industries.
I do not believe that it matters enormously whether the wealth is created by the manufacturing or non-manufacturing sectors.
