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Industrial capacity utilisation, third quarter 2022

Capacity utilisation in industry decreased

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2022-11-21 8.00

Capacity utilisation in industry decreased by 0.9 percentage points in the third quarter of 2022 compared with the second quarter of 2022 in seasonally adjusted figures.

The decrease in capacity utilisation in industry in the third quarter led to a decrease in the level of utilisation, which amounted to 90.3 percent in seasonally adjusted figures.

On an annual basis, capacity utilisation decreased by 0.5 percentage points compared with the third quarter of 2021 and was 90.1 percent in calendar adjusted figures.

The figures for the third quarter of 2022 are preliminary. Since the previous publication capacity utilisation in the second quarter of 2022 compared with the first quarter of 2022 has been revised downwards by 0.2 percentage points, to a utilisation rate of 91.2 percent in seasonally adjusted figures.

Capacity utilisation in the second quarter of 2022 compared with the corresponding quarter a year ago decreased by 0.1 percentage points to a utilisation rate of 91.6 percent in calendar adjusted figures.

Capacity utilisation in industry, seasonally adjusted figures
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Capacity utilisation in industry, percent
NACE 2007 INDUSTRY TITLE Seasonally adjusted figures
    2021 2022 Q3 2022-Q2 2022[1] Q3 2022-Q3 2021[2]
    Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3    
B+C Mines and quarries and manufacturing industry 90.7 90.4 90.6 91.2 90.3 ‑0.9 ‑0.5
- Intermediate goods industry 92.3 92.4 92.0 93.0 92.8 ‑0.2 0.5
- Capital goods industry 88.1 89.3 90.0 90.9 90.2 ‑0.7 2.0
- Non-durable consumer goods industry 91.3 89.5 88.9 89.1 87.9 ‑1.2 ‑3.5
- Durable consumer goods industry 94.6 95.7 96.1 90.4 90.4 0 ‑4.4
B Mines and quarries 93.5 93.6 91.7 93.6 93.6 0 ‑0.1
C Manufacturing industry 90.6 90.3 90.6 91.2 90.2 ‑1 ‑0.5
20-21 Industry for chemicals and pharmaceutical products 94.0 86.2 86.4 86.7 86.7 0 ‑7.2
24 Industry for basic metals 96.1 95.3 94.5 93.8 93.5 ‑0.3 ‑2.4
26 Industry for manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products 91.2 91.9 90.9 89.5 90.6 1.1 ‑0.6
28 Industry for machinery and equipment n.e.c. 91.6 91.2 91.9 90.4 90.8 0.4 ‑0.8
29 Industry for motor vehicles 80.3 83.6 84.1 90.8 87.8 ‑3 7.5

1) Calendar and seasonally adjusted figures 2) Calendar adjusted figures

Revisions

When capacity utilisation for a new quarter is published, the percentages for the previous quarter are also revised. Normally, the figures for the previous quarter are revised mainly due to new and revised information.

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2023-02-21 at 08:00.

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