Transport and communications - 1. quarter of 2007

In Q1, seasonally adjusted sales in 'transport, post and telecommunications' increased quarter-on-quarter by 1.4% at constant prices. Year-on-year, sales rose by 8.3%, not seasonally adjusted, by 9.6%. 'Supporting and auxiliary transport activities' contributed to aggregate growth by more than 50%, 'other land transport' by one fourth.
In Q1, seasonally adjusted sales in 'transport and post and telecommunications' rose quarter-on-quarter by 1.4% at constant prices. Year-on-year, sales rose by 8.3%, not seasonally adjusted, by 9.6%. 'Supporting and auxiliary transport activities' contributed to aggregate growth by more than 50%, 'other land transport' by one fourth. (Table 4).

Transport:

Seasonally adjusted sales in 'transport' increased quarter-on-quarter by 1.4% at constant prices. The trend component grew for the corresponding period by 2.6 %, which was more than average growth in 2006 (Table 1).

Graph 1
Year-on-year, with seasonal and calendar adjustment , sales rose by 9.9 %. After working days adjustment (in Q1 2007, there was 1 working day less than in Q1 2006) sales increased by 12.6 %, without adjustment, sales rose by 12.2 % which was the biggest growth for the last 11 quarters.

Year-on-year growth of not seasonally adjusted sales in 'transport' came from all transport divisions save for 'inland water transport' (drop by 18.8 %). The biggest growth (by 21.1 %) was recorded for 'supporting and auxiliary transport activities' and especially due to a significant increase of sales for the sale of goods by some of the important enterprises as their secondary activity. Sales in 'other land transport' increased by 8.1 %, which was the biggest increase for the last 11 quarters, and in 'transport via railways' the increase was due mainly to the outputs of freight transport by 5.5% and 'air transport' by 3.9 %.

Post and telecommunications:

Seasonally adjusted sales in 'post and telecommunications' increased by 1.2 % quarter-on-quarter at constant prices. The trend component for the corresponding period increased by 1.1 %, which was by 0.2 percentage point more than the average for the last four quarters. (Table 2).

Graph 2
Year-on-year, with seasonal and calendar adjustments, sales increased by 5.0 % (working days adjusted, by 5.2 %), without adjustment sales grew by 4.8 %.

In telecommunications, which contributed to year-on-year growth of not seasonally adjusted sales in 'post and telecommunications' by more than 85%, the growth was 4.5%. Although its dynamics in Q1 was higher than the average for the year 2006, it dropped by 5% behind 2005, which was mainly due to satiation and consolidation of telecommunications market. Postal services after stagnation reported mainly for the latter half of 2004 and in 2005 showed in the observed period a continuing growth since Q1 2006 (by 7.4%).

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Note:
1) The whole time series is seasonally adjusted every quarter; indices in the graph are changed retroactively.

Contact person: Hellerová Alena, phone: 274052921, e-mail: alena.hellerova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 9 May 2007
End of data processing: 15 May 2007
Data for March 2007 are preliminary, revised data for all months of 2007 will be known in June 2008, at the latest. In relation to the envisaged data revision for 2006, also the data for 2005 were revised, which was unplanned, (some important enterprises additionally corrected previously reported sales which were only estimated) and the data for January and February 2007 were repeatedly processed (additionally received questionnaires were included).
Quarterly data since 1997 are available in time series http://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/sales_indices_monthly_transport_and_communication_time_series .