Press release No. 004 of 8 January 2018
WIESBADEN – Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing had decreased in November 2017 a seasonally and working-day adjusted 0.4% on the previous month. For October 2017, revision of the preliminary outcome resulted in an increase of 0.7% compared with September 2017 (primary +0.5%). Price-adjusted new orders without major orders in manufacturing had increased in November 2017 a seasonally and working-day adjusted +1.8% on the previous month.
In November 2017, domestic orders decreased by 0.4% and foreign orders decreased by 0.5% on the previous month. New orders from the euro area were up 0.7%, new orders from other countries decreased 1.2% compared to October 2017.
In November 2017 the manufacturers of intermediate goods saw new orders rise by 2.0% compared with October 2017. The manufacturers of capital goods showed decreases of 2.3% on the previous month. For consumer goods, an increase in new orders of 3.2% was recorded.
Turnover +4.6% seasonally adjusted on the previous month
The price-adjusted turnover in manufacturing in November 2017 was up a seasonally and working-day adjusted 4.6% on the previous month. In October 2017, it decreased by 2.1% on September 2017. Thus confirming the provisional result published in the previous month.
The data shown here on new orders and on turnover are based on the volume index of manufacturing, seasonally and working day adjusted by means of X-12-ARIMA. New orders and turnover are covered and evaluated in accordance with the Classification of Economic Activities, 2008 edition (WZ 2008). New orders are covered only in selected economic branches of manufacturing.
Detailed data and long time series are available from the GENESIS-Online database (indices of new orders 42151 and indices of turnover 42152).
