Industry, Construction - October

In October 2009 seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 1.0% compared with September 2009. Industrial production fell by 7.2% compared with October 2008.
In October 2009 seasonally adjusted construction output decreased by 3.0% compared with September 2009. Construction output increased by 0.1% compared with October 2008.
Industry

In October 2009 industrial production declined by 7.2% compared with October 2008. Working days adjusted the industrial production dropped by 4.9%. October 2009 had one working day less compared with October 2008. Seasonally adjusted (plus WDA) the industrial production was 1.0% up compared to September 2009. The annual decline in industrial production was most contributed to by manufacture of machinery and equipment (contribution –2.4 p.p., drop by 25.5%), manufacture of metal structures and fabricated metal products (contribution –1.6 p.p., drop by 17.4%) and manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products (contribution –1.3 p.p., drop by 19.7%). Industrial production grew in manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (contribution +1.8 p.p. growth by 12.4%), manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco (contribution +0.2 p.p., growth by 5.0%) and in mining of coal and lignite (contribution +0.2 p.p., growth by 5.3%).

Revenues from industrial activity at current prices fell by 11.4% compared with October 2008. Direct export revenues of industrial enterprises at current prices decreased by 8.2%. Their share in total revenues of industrial enterprises made up 48.4%.

The value of new orders in selected industrial CZ-NACE activities declined by 11.2% compared with October 2008 (non-domestic new orders fell by 5.1%). The y-o-y drop of total new orders was most contributed to by manufacture of metal structures and fabricated metal products (contribution –5.6 p.p., drop by 32.8%), manufacture of machinery and equipment (contribution –3.7 p.p., drop by 29.0%) and manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products; casting of metals (contribution –3.3%, drop by 36.6%). New orders grew only in manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (contribution +4.2 p.p., growth by 16.8%) and manufacture of other transport equipment (contribution +0.2 p.p., growth by 18.5%).

The average registered number of employees in enterprises with 50 or more employees decreased by 12.1% compared with October 2008. Their average monthly nominal wage rose by 3.4% compared with October 2008 and reached CZK 24 265.

Construction

In October 2009 construction output increased by 0.1% at constant prices compared with October 2008, working days adjusted construction output raised by 1.4%. October 2009 had one working day less compared to October 2008. Seasonally adjusted construction output was 3.0% down in October, m-o-m. Building construction output continued decreasing (contribution –4.7 p.p., drop by 7.0%) and civil engineering output growing (contribution +4.8 p.p., growth by 14.7%).

The average registered number of employees in construction enterprises with 50 or more employees dropped by 0.5% compared with October 2008. Their average monthly nominal wage increased by 0.1% compared with October 2008 and reached CZK 27 150.
According to the Eurostat news release, WDA industrial production in the EU 27 declined by 12.1% in September 2009, compared with September 2008. The data for October 2009 will be released by Eurostat at 11:00 a.m. on 14 December 2009.

According to the Eurostat news release, WDA construction output in the EU 27 dropped by 9.4% in September 2009 compared with September 2008. Building construction fell by 12.6% and civil engineering increased by 4.7%. The data for October 2009 will be released by Eurostat at 11:00 a.m. on 17 December 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:
http://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/pru_m
/produkty/pru_ts
Construction:
http://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/sta_m
http://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/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: 7 December 2009
End of data processing: 10 December 2009