Press release No. 309 of 7 September 2016
WIESBADEN – Turnover in professional and technical services increased a nominal 6.7% in the second 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 year-on-year since the second quarter of 2013. The number of persons employed was up 2.7% in the second quarter of 2016 on the same quarter a year earlier.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Turnover indices in the service sector (47414-0001) and Employment indices in the service sector (47414-0008) in the GENESIS-Online database.