Orders and turnover in industry, March 2020
Orders in industry decreased in March
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2020-05-05 9.30
Total orders in industry decreased by 9.6 percent in March 2020 compared with February, in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with March 2019, total orders in industry decreased by 2.0 percent in calendar-adjusted figures.
Compared with the previous month, the largest decrease was recorded in the motor vehicle industry, down by 43.2 percent, while the largest increase was recorded in the industry for other transport equipment, up by 40.8 percent. Total orders in industry decreased on both the domestic and the export market compared with February. The domestic market decreased by 6.3 percent and the export market decreased by 12.2 percent, in seasonally adjusted figures.
Total orders in industry decreased on an annual basis
On an annual basis, total orders in industry decreased by 2.0 percent compared with March 2019, in calendar-adjusted figures. Orders received from customers in Sweden decreased by 3.1 percent and orders received from customers abroad decreased by 1.0 percent.
Total orders in industry in February revised
The figures for March are preliminary. Since the previous publication, the seasonally adjusted monthly development in February compared with January has been revised upwards by 0.1 percentage point to 1.3 percent. The calendar-adjusted development in February compared with February of the previous year has been revised downwards by 0.2 percentage points to 5.7 percent.
For a more comprehensive understanding of the statistics, it is relevant to analyse the effects of seasonal and calendar adjustments on the statistics.
| NACE 2007 | INDUSTRY TITLE | Mar 2020/ Feb 2020[1] |
Jan-Mar 2020/ Jan-Mar 2019[2] |
Mar 2020/ Mar 2019[2] |
Share of orders in total industry 2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tot | Dom | Exp | Tot | Dom | Exp | Tot | Dom | Exp | |||
| B+C | Mines and quarries and manufacturing industry | ‑9.6 | ‑6.3 | ‑12.2 | 1.8 | ‑1.8 | 4.5 | ‑2.0 | ‑3.1 | ‑1.0 | 100.0 |
| - | Intermediate goods industry | ‑4.6 | ‑2.0 | ‑4.5 | ‑2.7 | ‑3.7 | ‑2.1 | ‑5.3 | ‑3.7 | ‑6.4 | 40.6 |
| - | Energy excl. NACE rev 2. Section D | ‑1.7 | .. | .. | 4.8 | .. | .. | 3.5 | .. | .. | 6.0 |
| - | Capital goods industry | ‑21.0 | ‑11.0 | ‑24.9 | 5.2 | ‑2.5 | 9.0 | ‑4.6 | ‑7.9 | ‑2.4 | 36.7 |
| - | Non-durable consumer goods industry | 5.2 | 0.0 | 22.5 | 6.5 | ‑2.6 | 19.4 | 10.3 | ‑1.3 | 27.7 | 15.0 |
| - | Durable consumer goods industry | ‑2.0 | .. | .. | ‑1.7 | .. | .. | ‑1.0 | .. | .. | 1.8 |
| B | Mines and quarries | 0.8 | 9.2 | ‑5.7 | 2.4 | ‑13.5 | 17.3 | ‑1.9 | ‑11.1 | 4.3 | 2.8 |
| C | Manufacturing industry | ‑9.9 | ‑6.7 | ‑12.4 | 1.8 | ‑1.5 | 4.2 | ‑2.0 | ‑2.8 | ‑1.3 | 97.2 |
| 10-12 | Food product, beverage and tobacco industry | 0.3 | ‑0.6 | 2.6 | ‑1.0 | ‑2.6 | 6.0 | ‑0.2 | ‑2.0 | 8.5 | 9.5 |
| 13-15 | Industry for textile and leather products | 14.0 | ‑10.1 | 52.3 | 6.8 | ‑7.9 | 18.7 | 22.6 | ‑14.4 | 54.3 | 0.6 |
| 16 | Industry for wood and wood products | 1.0 | ‑1.9 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 8.0 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 9.5 | 5.0 |
| 17 | Industry for pulp, paper and paper products | ‑0.2 | 0.9 | ‑0.4 | 2.2 | 7.2 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 9.6 | 1.1 | 6.4 |
| 18 | Industry for printing and reproduction of recorded media | 4.7 | ‑0.4 | 34.2 | ‑4.4 | ‑9.0 | 18.2 | ‑13.1 | ‑9.4 | ‑23.5 | 1.0 |
| 19 | Industry for coke and refined petroleum products | ‑1.7 | .. | .. | 4.8 | .. | .. | 3.5 | .. | .. | 6.2 |
| 20-21 | Industry for chemicals and industry for pharmaceutical products | 14.8 | 4.3 | 16.2 | 17.6 | 6.7 | 20.0 | 30.4 | 13.6 | 34.2 | 8.3 |
| 22 | Industry for rubber and plastic products | 0.8 | 1.6 | ‑0.7 | ‑7.5 | ‑1.9 | ‑12.9 | ‑4.7 | ‑1.7 | ‑8.1 | 2.5 |
| 23 | Industry for other non-metallic mineral products | ‑1.2 | ‑0.8 | ‑3.6 | 1.5 | ‑3.5 | 30.3 | 0.4 | ‑3.4 | 23.7 | 2.5 |
| 24 | Industry for basic metals | ‑6.4 | ‑8.5 | ‑5.7 | ‑7.4 | ‑13.2 | ‑5.0 | ‑9.6 | ‑15.8 | ‑7.9 | 8.6 |
| 25 | Industry for manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment | ‑12.7 | ‑4.8 | ‑25.7 | ‑4.1 | ‑5.3 | ‑1.9 | ‑7.8 | ‑4.6 | ‑16.0 | 7.2 |
| 26 | Industry for manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products | 13.5 | 13.9 | 8.5 | ‑3.1 | 0.5 | ‑3.9 | 5.4 | 10.3 | 2.2 | 2.8 |
| 27 | Industry for manufacture of electrical equipment | ‑8.6 | ‑2.4 | ‑6.2 | ‑21.3 | ‑0.6 | ‑32.2 | ‑40.7 | ‑2.5 | ‑54.6 | 3.9 |
| 28 | Industry for machinery and equipment n.e.c. | ‑11.9 | ‑5.5 | ‑12.2 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 4.8 | ‑0.6 | ‑5.3 | 1.2 | 11.6 |
| 29 | Industry for motor vehicles | ‑43.2 | ‑30.6 | ‑39.5 | 9.5 | ‑4.4 | 14.9 | ‑8.3 | ‑21.2 | ‑2.2 | 18.0 |
| 30 | Industry for other transport equipment | 40.8 | 18.3 | 57.2 | ‑9.0 | 13.4 | ‑19.2 | ‑18.4 | 17.7 | ‑27.7 | 1.6 |
| 31-33 | Industry for other manufacturing, repair and installation of machinery and equipment | ‑0.9 | ‑0.8 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 5.8 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 6.6 | 4.3 |
1) Calendar and seasonally adjusted figures 2) Calendar adjusted figures 3) Data marked with .. includes classified information or missing data
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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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