Orders and turnover in industry, August 2023

Orders in industry increased in August

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2023-10-10 8.00

Total orders in industry increased by 5.0 percent in August 2023 compared with July, in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with August 2022, total orders in industry decreased by 0.4 percent in calendar-adjusted figures.

A majority of the industrial subsectors recorded a positive development on a monthly basis. The largest increase was in the electronic equipment industry, up 103.7 percent. The development in the electronic equipment industry can to a large degree be explained by weak orders in July. Total orders in industry decreased on the domestic market and increased on the export market compared with July. The domestic market decreased by 3.6 percent and the export market increased by 10.6 percent, in seasonally adjusted figures.

Total orders in industry decreased on an annual basis

On an annual basis, total orders in industry decreased by 0.4 percent compared with August 2022, in calendar-adjusted figures. Orders received from customers in Sweden decreased by 5.3 percent and orders received from customers abroad increased by 3.3 percent.

Total orders in industry in July revised

The figures for August are preliminary. Since the previous publication, the seasonally adjusted monthly development in July compared with June has been revised downwards by 0.1 percentage points to -6.3 percent. The calendar-adjusted development in July compared with July of the previous year has been revised downwards by 1.0 percentage points to -9.4 percent.

Remarks

In March 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak started to significantly impact orders in industry, which should be considered when comparing annual development statistics.

For a more comprehensive understanding of the statistics, it is relevant to analyse the effects of seasonal and calendar adjustments on the statistics. Please note that data series are seasonally adjusted individually. This means that a seasonally adjusted figure for an aggregate may differ from a weighted mean of the corresponding figures for included sectors.

Percentage changes in orders

NACE 2007	INDUSTRY TITLE	Aug 2023/ Jul 2023^[1]			Jan-Aug 2023/ Jan-Aug 2022^[2]			Aug 2023/ Aug 2022^[2]			Share of orders in total industry 2022
		Tot	Dom	Exp	Tot	Dom	Exp	Tot	Dom	Exp
B+C	Mines and quarries and manufacturing industry	5.0	‑3.6	10.6	‑2.2	‑2.7	‑1.8	‑0.4	‑5.3	3.3	100.0
-	Intermediate goods industry	9.4	‑2.7	20.3	‑3.7	‑7.0	‑1.4	‑0.6	‑7.3	5.1	42.9
-	Energy excl. NACE rev 2. Section D	‑3.6	..	..	‑1.7	..	..	‑1.2	..	..	8.2
-	Capital goods industry	1.8	‑2.5	5.1	‑3.5	0.5	‑5.3	‑3.6	‑4.2	‑3.3	30.0
-	Non-durable consumer goods industry	0.3	‑0.7	3.8	4.4	0.8	8.0	3.6	‑1.0	8.0	17.3
-	Durable consumer goods industry	13.5	..	..	‑12.1	..	..	‑1.1	..	..	1.7
B	Mines and quarries	4.7	7.6	‑0.4	‑9.4	‑13.9	‑5.6	‑1.3	1.9	‑3.9	3.1
C	Manufacturing industry	5.3	‑4.1	12.3	‑1.9	‑2.3	‑1.7	‑0.4	‑5.5	3.7	96.9
10-12	Food product, beverage and tobacco industry	0.9	0.6	2.3	1.1	1.7	‑1.3	2.4	1.4	6.6	8.8
13-15	Industry for textile and leather products	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.6
16	Industry for wood and wood products	‑2.9	‑6.1	4.1	‑4.7	‑14.8	20.2	‑1.8	‑16.2	34.0	5.7
17	Industry for pulp, paper and paper products	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6.3
18	Industry for printing and reproduction of recorded media	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.7
19	Industry for coke and refined petroleum products	‑3.6	..	..	‑1.7	..	..	‑1.2	..	..	8.2
20-21	Industry for chemicals and industry for pharmaceutical products	2.7	‑2.4	3.7	2.5	‑2.9	3.6	5.3	‑8.8	8.1	11.2
22	Industry for rubber and plastic products	0.4	‑0.8	1.0	‑6.6	‑1.1	‑12.4	5.4	10.5	‑0.5	2.3
23	Industry for other non-metallic mineral products	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2.3
24	Industry for basic metals	10.1	‑11.8	27.7	‑5.1	‑2.8	‑6.1	0.9	‑18.3	9.3	9.9
25	Industry for manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment	10.9	8.2	17.6	6.8	2.2	17.7	0.7	‑4.7	12.2	7.3
26	Industry for manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products	6.3	5.3	11.1	‑8.2	‑35.1	7.4	18.5	7.5	22.9	2.6
27	Industry for manufacture of electrical equipment	103.7	‑10.2	223.8	32.9	3.2	43.2	3.9	5.5	3.3	3.3
28	Industry for machinery and equipment n.e.c.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	10.4
29-30	Industry for transport equipment	‑6.9	‑7.8	‑2.6	‑0.2	4.3	‑1.6	‑1.8	0.8	‑2.9	13.5
29	Industry for motor vehicles	‑10.2	..	..	‑5.7	..	..	‑1.9	..	..	12.1
30	Industry for other transport equipment	0.0	..	..	45.5	..	..	‑3.9	..	..	1.5
31-33	Industry for other manufacturing, repair and installation of machinery and equipment	0.9	2.4	‑2.2	‑4.7	‑4.4	‑5.5	‑4.0	‑6.3	1.5	3.8

1) Calendar and seasonally adjusted figures 2) Calendar adjusted figures 3) Data marked with .. includes classified information or missing data

Definitions and explanations

Revisions

When the orders index and the turnover index for a new month are published, the indices for previous months are also revised. The material is normally revised for between two and four months retroactively, depending on which month of the quarter is the reference month. The whole previous quarter is revised when publishing the first and second months of a quarter. Calendar adjusted figures, seasonally adjusted figures and trend figures are revised from January 2000 onwards.

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