Press release No. 005 of 7 January 2016
WIESBADEN – Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing in November 2015 increased a seasonally and working-day adjusted 1.5% on October 2015. In October 2015, the increase on the previous month showed a corrected +1.7% (primary +1.8%). In November 2015, domestic orders increased 2.6% and foreign orders 0.6% on the previous month. As regards the direction of trade in foreign transactions, new orders from the euro area were down 0.5% on the previous month, while new orders from other countries increased 1.4%.
In November 2015 the manufacturers of intermediate goods rose 4.8% while the manufacturers of capital goods show decreases of 0.1% on the previous month. For consumer goods, a decrease in new orders of 2.4% was recorded.
The rates of change are based on the volume index of new orders for manufacturing (2010 = 100). Seasonal and working day adjustment is done using the Census X-12-ARIMA method.
Detailed data and long time series on the index of new orders in manufacturing are available from the GENESIS-Online database in the tables on the volume index (42151-0004). There you can also find the index of new orders without major orders (42151-008).