Industry, Construction - August

In August 2009 seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 4.0% compared with July 2009. Industrial production fell by 8.4% compared with August 2008.
In August 2009 seasonally adjusted construction output increased by 1.5% compared with July 2009. Construction output increased by 0.6% compared with August 2008.
Industry

In August 2009 industrial production declined by 8.4% compared with August 2008. Seasonally adjusted the industrial production increased by 4.0%. The annual decline in industrial production was most contributed to by manufacture fabricated metal products (contribution -2.0 p.p., drop by 20.6%), manufacture of machinery and equipment (contribution -1.9 p.p., drop by 21.4%) and manufacture of electrical equipment (contribution -1.2 p.p., drop by 19.8%). Industrial production grew in manufacture of motor vehicle, trailers and semi-trailers (contribution +2.2 p.p., growth by 17.7%) and in manufacture of food, beverages and tobacco (contribution +0.3 p.p., growth by 6.4%).

Revenues from industrial activity at current prices fell by 12.7% compared with August 2008. Direct export revenues of industrial enterprises at current prices decreased by 8.7%. Their share in total revenues of industrial enterprises made up 46.9%.

The value of new orders in selected industrial CZ-NACE activities declined by 13.6% compared with August 2008 (non-domestic new orders fell by 10.0%). The y-o-y drop of total new orders was most contributed to by manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products; casting of metals (contribution -4.7%, drop by 43.9%), manufacture of machinery and equipment (contribution -3.9 p.p., drop by 29.1%) and manufacture of fabricated metal products (contribution -2.9%, drop by 21.1%). New orders grew only in manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (contribution +2.4 p.p., growth by 10.3%).

The average registered number of employees in industrial enterprises with 50 or more employees decreased by 14.0% compared with August 2008. Their average monthly nominal wage rose by 5.4% compared with August 2008 and reached CZK 22 899.
August year-on-year changes of production, sales, new orders and wages are affected by low comparative base of the previous year.


Construction

In August 2009 construction output increased by 0.6% at constant prices compared with August 2008, seasonally adjusted construction output raised by 1.5%, m-o-m. Like in the previous months building construction output continued decreasing (contribution -3.6 p.p., drop by 5.1%) and civil engineering output growing (contribution +4.2 p.p., growth by 14.0%).

The average registered number of employees in construction enterprises with 50 or more employees increased by 0.3% compared with August 2008. Their average monthly nominal wage increased by 4.2% compared with August 2008 and reached CZK 25 899.
According to the Eurostat news release, WDA industrial production in the EU 27 declined by 14.7% in July 2009, compared with July 2008. The data for August 2009 will be released by Eurostat at 11:00 a.m. on 14 October 2009.

According to the Eurostat news release, WDA construction output in the EU 27 dropped by 11.1% in July 2009, compared with July 2008. Building construction fell by 13.7% and civil engineering increased by 0.3%. The data for August 2009 will be released by Eurostat at 11:00 a.m. on 19 October 2009.
Starting from January 2009 the industry and construction figures are in compliance with the new CZ-NACE classification. Exhaustive information on the introduction of this classification including conversion tables is available at:
/klasifikace_ekonomickych_cinnosti_-cz_nace-.
The time series of basic industry and construction data have been recalculated accordingly. More detailed information and recalculated time series covering the period 2000–2008 are available in the section Methodology, Time series:
Industry:
/pru_m
/produkty/pru_ts
Construction:
/sta_m
/produkty/sta_ts

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Notes:
Contacts:
Industry – Jan Ernest, phone (+420)274054188, e-mail: jan.ernest@csu.gov.cz
Construction – Petra Curinova, phone (+420)274054199, e-mail: petra.curinova@csu.gov.cz
Source of data: CZSO surveys
End of data collection: 5 October 2009
End of data processing: 8 October 2009