Press release No. 183 of 25 May 2020
New orders in main construction industry, March 2020
-10.5% on the previous month (in real terms, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-10.3% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms, calendar adjusted)
-4.2% on the same month a year earlier (in nominal terms)
WIESBADEN – The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in the main construction industry in March 2020 decreased a seasonally and working-day adjusted 10.5% on February 2020.
In building construction and civil and underground engineering, in establishments of enterprises with 20 or more persons, new orders decreased by 4.2% in nominal terms compared with the corresponding month of the previous year.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Monthly report on the main construction industry (44111) in the GENESIS-Online database.
