Press release No. 352 of 6 October 2017
WIESBADEN – Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing had increased in August 2017 a seasonally and working-day adjusted 3.6% on the previous month. For July 2017, revision of the preliminary outcome resulted in decrease of 0.4% compared with June 2017 (primary –0.7%). Price-adjusted new orders without major orders in manufacturing had increased in August 2017 a seasonally and working-day adjusted 2.5% on the previous month.
In August 2017, domestic orders increased by 2.7% and foreign orders by 4.3% on the previous month. New orders from the euro area were down 1.0%, new orders from other countries increased 7.7% compared to July 2017.
In August 2017 the manufacturers of intermediate goods saw new orders rise by 6.7% compared with July 2017. The manufacturers of capital goods showed increases of 1.6% on the previous month. For consumer goods, an increase in new orders of 4.8% was recorded.
Turnover +3.6% seasonally adjusted on the previous month
The price-adjusted turnover in manufacturing in August 2017 was up a seasonally and working-day adjusted 3.6% on the previous month. In July 2017, it decreased by 0.1% on June 2017, thus confirming the provisional result published in the previous month.
The data shown here on new orders and on turnover are based on the volume index of manufacturing, seasonally and working day adjusted by means of X-12-ARIMA. New orders and turnover are covered and evaluated in accordance with the Classification of Economic Activities, 2008 edition (WZ 2008). New orders are covered only in selected economic branches of manufacturing.
Detailed data and long time series are available from the GENESIS-Online database (indices of new orders 42151 and indices of turnover 42152).