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Order and turnover in industry, December 2017:

Orders to industry decreased in December

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2018-02-06 9.30

Total orders to industry decreased by 0.7 percent in December 2017 compared with November, in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with December 2016, total orders to industry increased by 5.8 percent, in calendar-adjusted figures.

The development in total orders to industry was negative in both the domestic and export market. Compared with November, the domestic market decreased by 1.0 percent and the export market decreased by 1.8 percent, both in seasonally adjusted figures.

On an annual basis, total orders to industry increased by 5.8 percent compared with December 2016, in calendar-adjusted figures. Orders received from customers in Sweden increased by 5.0 percent and orders received from customers abroad increased by 6.2 percent.

Total orders to industry were 6.0 percent higher in 2017 than in 2016, in calendar adjusted figures. The domestic market increased by 6.7 percent and the export market increased by 5.4 percent.

Statistics on the motor vehicle products industry, linked aggregates and total orders to industry were revised from January 2016 as a result of new information in the sub-sector.

The figures for December are preliminary. Since the previous publication, the seasonally adjusted monthly development in November has been revised up by 0.1 percentage points to a monthly development of 2.7 percent compared with October. The calendar-adjusted development in November has been revised down by 0.2 percentage points to a monthly development of 7.7 percent compared with November 2016.

For a more comprehensive understanding of the statistics, it is relevant to analyse the seasonal and calendar adjustments’ effects on the statistics.

Percent changes in orders
NACE 2007 INDUSTRY TITLE Dec 2017/ Nov 2017[1] Jan-Dec 2017/ Jan-Dec 2016 [2] Dec 2017/ Dec 2016 [2] Share of orders in total industry 2010
    Tot Dom Exp Tot Dom Exp Tot Dom Exp  
B+C Mines and quarries and manufacturing industry ‑0.7 ‑1.0 ‑1.8 6.0 6.7 5.4 5.8 5.0 6.2 100.0
- Intermediate goods industry ‑0.9 2.5 ‑2.9 3.8 8.3 0.3 3.5 12.3 ‑2.3 39.0
- Energy excl. NACE rev 2. Section D ‑2.0 0.3 ‑2.8 3.4 ‑1.3 8.6 ‑6.2 ‑5.3 ‑5.7 2.0
- Capital goods industry ‑3.4 ‑2.0 ‑3.9 12.9 13.8 12.4 11.4 0.8 16.2 36.0
- Non-durable consumer goods industry ‑2.0 ‑1.3 1.3 ‑0.9 ‑1.0 ‑1.1 3.3 0.1 7.4 20.0
- Durable consumer goods industry 10.0 13.9 ‑0.7 ‑3.1 2.5 ‑11.4 13.7 24.3 ‑3.5 2.0
B Mines and quarries ‑4.4 0.5 ‑10.8 6.8 16.1 ‑2.5 15.3 31.3 1.0 2.8
C Manufacturing industry ‑1.1 ‑0.4 ‑4.0 6.0 6.5 5.6 5.4 4.7 5.6 97.2
10-12 Food product, beverage and tobacco industry ‑1.2 ‑1.0 ‑3.5 ‑0.1 ‑0.6 2.3 2.1 1.1 6.9 9.8
13-15 Industry for textile and leather products ‑4.1 1.1 ‑9.7 ‑3.7 1.8 ‑8.7 ‑7.8 ‑2.2 ‑13.0 0.5
16 Industry for wood and wood products ‑2.7 ‑2.9 ‑1.4 4.5 6.1 1.2 1.3 ‑0.2 4.3 4.3
17 Industry for pulp, paper and paper products 1.2 2.7 ‑1.3 2.8 ‑0.8 3.6 ‑1.3 5.1 ‑2.9 7.8
18 Industry for printing and reproduction of recorded media 1.9 4.2 4.9 10.3 ‑2.4 262.9 24.8 2.2 568.3 1.3
19 Industry for coke and refined petroleum products ‑2.0 0.3 ‑2.8 3.4 ‑1.3 8.6 ‑6.2 ‑5.3 ‑5.7 5.4
20-21 Industry for chemicals and industry for pharmaceutical products ‑1.5 1.3 ‑2.1 ‑1.3 6.4 ‑3.1 0.3 13.2 ‑2.8 8.0
22 Industry for rubber and plastic products 2.3 2.4 5.6 6.3 8.4 4.3 18.9 18.7 20.2 2.4
23 Industry for other non-metallic mineral products 0.0 0.2 ‑1.8 10.1 12.4 ‑2.2 9.0 10.7 ‑0.4 2.2
24 Industry for basic metals 3.5 2.0 1.5 6.1 5.2 6.5 14.2 16.6 13.2 8.7
25 Industry for manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment 2.0 3.2 0.1 4.9 8.7 ‑2.4 7.5 4.5 15.0 6.6
26 Industry for manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products 16.2 1.9 31.4 2.7 3.9 2.7 14.0 ‑6.1 24.4 7.5
27 Industry for manufacture of electrical equipment ‑1.1 11.6 ‑7.0 ‑4.1 14.8 ‑14.0 ‑14.6 21.9 ‑28.7 4.1
28 Industry for machinery and equipment n.e.c. ‑1.0 4.2 ‑3.2 11.8 7.7 13.5 10.9 11.9 10.9 10.8
29 Industry for motor vehicles 1.5 3.1 0.4 20.0 19.2 20.2 24.4 42.6 18.4 11.8
30 Industry for other transport equipment ‑34.6 ‑20.0 ‑27.5 ‑17.1 32.6 ‑37.3 ‑57.4 ‑66.4 ‑43.4 1.6
31-33 Industry for other manufacturing, repair and installation of machinery and equipment 4.0 0.9 7.2 1.9 4.8 ‑4.0 10.1 11.9 6.2 4.4

1) Calender and seasonally adjusted figures 2) Calender adjusted figures

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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