Press release No. 086 of 11 March 2019

January 2019 (provisional): production in industry
-0.8% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-3.3% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

December 2018 (revised): production in industry
+0.8% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-2.7% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

WIESBADEN – In January 2019, production in industry was down by 0.8% from the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis according to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The revised figure shows an increase of 0.8% (primary -0.4%) from December 2018.

In January 2019, production in industry excluding energy and construction was down by 1.2%. Within industry, the production of capital goods decreased by 2.5% and the production of intermediate goods by 0.7%. The production of consumer goods showed an increase of 1.5%. Outside industry the energy production was up by 3.6% in January 2019 and the production in construction increased by 0.2%.

The rates of change refer to the production index for the industry (2015 = 100). Seasonal and calendar adjustment is done using the X-13 JDemetra+ method.

Basic data and long time series on the production index in industry are also available through the table "Index of production in manufacturing" (42153-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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