Press release No. 191 of 8 June 2016
WIESBADEN – Turnover in the information and communication sector rose by a nominal 5.8% in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the same quarter of 2015. Based on first calculations, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that turnover has been higher in each quarter since the fourth quarter of 2013 compared with the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The number of persons employed increased by 3.4% in the first quarter of 2016 on the same quarter a year earlier.
The information and communication sector includes highly heterogeneous economic activities such as publishing activities, motion picture, video, television programme and music production and distribution activities, programming and broadcasting activities, telecommunications and information service activities.