Press release No. 135 of 5 April 2019
February 2019 (provisional): production in industry
+0.7% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-0.4% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)
January 2019 (revised): production in industry
0.0% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-2.7% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)
WIESBADEN – In February 2019, production in industry was up 0.7% on the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis according to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The revision of the provisional data for January 2019 resulted in a change rate of 0.0% compared with December 2018 (provisional value: -0.8%).
In February 2019, production in industry excluding energy and construction was down 0.2% month on month. Within industry, the production of capital goods increased by 0.6%, while the production of intermediate goods decreased by 0.6% and of consumer goods by 1.6%. Outside industry, energy production was down 3.1% and the production in construction up 6.8% in February 2019 month on month.
The rates of change refer to the production index for industry (2015 = 100). Seasonal and calendar adjustment was made 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.
