Press release No. 081 of 8 March 2017
WIESBADEN – In 2016, turnover in the information and communication sector increased by 4.5% compared with the previous year. The number of persons employed rose by 3.5% in the same period. Based on first calculations, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that turnover in this sector increased by a nominal 1.8% in the fourth quarter of 2016 year on year. Hence 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 rose by 3.6% compared with the fourth quarter of 2015.
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.