Press release No. 331 of 6 September 2018
July 2018 (provisional): new orders in manufacturing
- -0.9% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted
- -0.9% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)
June 2018 (revised): new orders in manufacturing
- -3.9% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
- -0.8% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)
WIESBADEN – Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing had decreased in July 2018 a seasonally and calendar adjusted 0.9% on the previous month. For June 2018, revision of the preliminary outcome resulted in a decrease of 3.9% compared with May 2018 (primary -4.0%). Price-adjusted new orders without major orders in manufacturing had decreased in July 2018 a seasonally and calendar adjusted 2.0% on the previous month.
Domestic orders increased by 2.4% and foreign orders decreased by 3.4% in July 2018 on the previous month. New orders from the euro area were down 2.7%, new orders from other countries decreased 4.0% compared to June 2018.
In July 2018 the manufacturers of intermediate goods saw new orders rise by 1.5% compared with June 2018. The manufacturers of capital goods showed decreases of 2.7% on the previous month. For consumer goods, a decrease in new orders of 0.5% was recorded.
Turnover -1.8% seasonally adjusted on the previous month
The price-adjusted turnover in manufacturing in July 2018 was down a seasonally and calendar adjusted 1.8% on the previous month. In June 2018, the corrected figure shows a decrease of 0.7% to May 2018 (primary -1.0%).
The data shown here on new orders and turnover are based on the volume index of manufacturing, seasonally and calendar adjusted by means of X13 JDemetra+. (The underlying mathematical-statistical method is not fundamentally different from the previously applied method 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).
