Press release No. 042 of 6 February 2019

December 2018 (provisional): new orders in manufacturing
-1.6% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-7.0% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

November 2018 (revised): new orders in manufacturing
-0.2% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-3.4% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

WIESBADEN – Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing had decreased in December 2018 a seasonally and calendar adjusted 1.6% on the previous month. For November 2018, major orders were reported subsequently. Revision of the preliminary data resulted in a decrease of 0.2% for November 2018 compared to October 2018 (primary: -1.0%). Price-adjusted new orders without major orders in manufacturing had increased in December 2018 a seasonally and calendar adjusted 3.5% on the previous month.

Domestic orders decreased by 0.6% and foreign orders fell by 2.3% in December 2018 on the previous month. New orders from the euro area were up 3.2%, new orders from other countries decreased 5.5% compared to November 2018.

In December 2018 the manufacturers of intermediate goods saw new orders fall by 1.2% compared with November 2018. The manufacturers of capital goods showed decreases of 2.5% on the previous month. For consumer goods, an increase in new orders of 4.2% was recorded.

Turnover +2.7% seasonally adjusted on the previous month

The price-adjusted turnover in manufacturing in December 2018 was up a seasonally and calendar adjusted 2.7% on the previous month. In November 2018, the corrected figure showed a decrease of 2.2% to October 2018 (primary -2.4%).
The data shown here on new orders and turnover are based on the volume index of manufacturing, seasonally and calendar adjusted by means of X13 JDemetra+. (The underlying mathematical-statistical method is not fundamentally different from the previously applied method 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 42151-004 and indices of turnover 42152-004).