Industry - November 2006

In November 2006, seasonally adjusted industrial production was up by 0.7% month-on-month. The year-on-year index of industrial production reached 107.6%. Sales from industrial activity at constant prices (of the year 2000) rose by 8.8% year-on-year. Industrial new orders increased by 14.6% year-on-year.
Seasonally adjusted industrial production in November 2006 was up by 0.7% month-on-month. The trend grew by 0.7% (Table 5).

The year-on-year index of industrial production reached 107.6%. The growth of industrial production (Table 6) was most affected by ‘manufacture of transport equipment’ (+16.5%, contribution to growth of industry in total 3.1 percentage points), ‘manufacture of electrical and optical equipment’ (+13.1%, contribution 2.3 p.p.) and ‘manufacture of machinery and equipment’ (+23.8%, contribution 1.4 p.p.). On the contrary, decrease was recorded for ‘manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products’ (-2.2%, contribution -0.3 p.p.), ‘manufacture of chemicals, chemical products and man-made fibres’ (-8.0%, contribution -0.3 p.p.) and ‘manufacture of textiles and textile products’ -7.7%, contribution –0.2 p.p.).

As to the main industrial groupings, production increases were recorded for ‘consumer durables’ (+34.6%), ‘capital goods’ (+15.3%), ‘intermediate goods’ (+3.4%) and ‘energy’ (+2.8%). Production of ‘consumer non-durables’ decreased (-2.1%).

Sales from industrial activity at constant prices (of the year 2000) rose by 8.8% year-on-year (9.7% at current prices). The increase of sales from industrial activity was most contributed to by ‘manufacture of transport equipment’ (+16.4%, contribution to growth of industry in total 3.2 percentage points), ‘manufacture of electrical and optical equipment’ (+14.0%, contribution 2.3 p.p.) and ‘manufacture of machinery and equipment’ (+23.8%, contribution 1.8 p.p.). Sales from industrial activity decreased in ‘manufacture of chemicals, chemical products and man-made fibres’ (-5.7%, contribution -0.3 p.p.), ‘manufacture of textiles and textile products’ -8.6%, contribution –0.2 p.p.) and ‘manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products’ (-1.0%, contribution -0.1 p.p.).

Direct export sales of industrial enterprises increased by 11.8% at constant prices (+11.9% at current prices), and their share in total sales of industrial enterprises was 49.1% (current prices).
Sales from industrial activity of foreign-controlled enterprises were up by 16.7% at constant prices (+17.5% at current prices), and their share in total sales stood at 59.5% (current prices). Direct export sales of industrial foreign-controlled enterprises increased by 15.9% at constant prices (+16.0% at current prices) and made up 76.2% of total sales of these enterprises at current prices.

The average number of employees in the industry went up by 0.2% in November (+2.5 thousand persons) year-on-year. Increases were registered in ‘manufacture of rubber and plastic products’ (+7.7%), ‘manufacture of electrical and optical equipment’ (+5.3%) and ‘mining and quarrying except energy producing materials’ (+4.8%). Employment decreased most in ‘manufacture of textiles and textile products’ (-9.9%), ‘mining and quarrying of energy producing materials’ (-6.0%) and ‘manufacturing n.e.c.’ (-4.2%).
The average monthly nominal wage in the industry rose by 5.8% year-on-year and amounted to CZK 22 744. The average hourly wage increased by 5.0% and stood at CZK 153.3. Labour productivity in the industry (sales per employee) rose by 8.6% and hourly labour productivity by 7.7%. Unit wage costs were down by 2.6%.

Industrial new orders in selected CZ-NACE activities concluded in November reached the value of CZK 151.5 billion (current prices), of which non-domestic industrial new orders made up CZK 97.2 billion. The industrial new orders index (y-o-y) in total stood at 114.6%. The y-o-y non-domestic industrial new orders index increased by 16.9%. Non-domestic industrial new orders grew most in ‘manufacture of machinery and equipment’ (+34.0%, contribution to growth of industry in total 4.2 percentage points), ‘manufacture of basic metals‘ (+43.5%, contribution 3.2 p.p.) and ‘manufacture of radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus‘ (+39.8%, contribution 2.8 p.p.). Non-domestic industrial new orders dropped in ‘manufacture of other transport equipment‘ (-20.2%, contribution -0.5 p.p.), ‘manufacture of textiles and textile products’ (-4.0%, contribution -0.1 p.p.) and ‘manufacture of wearing apparel, dressing and dyeing of fur’ (-12.3%, contribution -0.1 p.p.).

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Note
Contact: Ernest Jan Ing, tel: 274054188, E-mail: jan.ernest@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 8 January 2007
End of data processing: 10 January 2007
Related publication: 8001-06 Industry of the Czech Republic
Starting with the News Release publishing results for January 2006, IPI results are processed according to the new methodology, which was published in the Press Release of 10 March 2006