Press release No. 465 of 9 December 2019
WIESBADEN – The turnover in selected service branches increased by a calendar and seasonally adjusted 2.7% in the third quarter of 2019 compared with the third quarter of 2018. Based on first calculations, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that a new all-time high was reached since coverage started in 2003. Compared with the second quarter of 2019, the adjusted turnover rose by 0.7%. The seasonally adjusted number of persons employed increased by 0.5% on the third quarter of 2018, thus remaining on the level of the second quarter of 2018.
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.
