Transport and communications - 2. quarter of 2008

In Q2 2008, seasonally adjusted sales in transport dropped, quarter-on-quarter, by 0.1% at constant prices, and, in the year-on-year comparison, seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted sales increased both by 0.5%. The total growth came mainly from 'supporting and auxiliary transport activities'. In communications seasonally adjusted sales dropped by 1.3%, quarter-on-quarter, and increased by 1.1%, year-on-year, not adjusted by 0.9%.
Transport:

Seasonally adjusted sales in 'transport' dropped, quarter-on-quarter, by 0.1% at constant prices. The trend component recorded a decrease for the third time in a row, this time by 0.2% (Table 3a).

Graph 1
Year-on-year, with seasonal and calendar adjustments (there was one working day more in Q2 2008 compared to the previous year) the sales increased by 0.5 %, with only calendar adjustment by 0.3%. Not seasonally adjusted sales increased y-o-y by 0.5% which was the smallest growth from Q4 2005 except for Q1 2008.

The growth came mainly from enterprises in 'supporting and auxiliary transport activities' (+1.9 p.p.) where mainly sales from auxiliary business activities of some enterprises grew. Compared to the growth recorded in previous four quarters a slow-down of growth showed also in supporting and auxiliary activities (approximately by 5 p.p.) Other transport divisions save for air transport recorded a drop of sales. Sales in 'transport via railways' fell most over the last 12 quarters (-6.1%) while the drop was affected by lower output in passenger and freight transport. Sales in the most important branch of transport from the aspect of contribution to total sales - 'other land transport' - dropped by 2.7% which resulted into a negative contribution to the growth in transport by 1.1 p.p. in total (Table 2a).


Post and telecommunications :

Seasonally adjusted sales in 'post and telecommunications' dropped by 1.3% quarter-on-quarter at constant prices. The trend component for the corresponding period decreased by 0.8% while the average over the previous four quarters grew by 0.7% (Table 3b).

Graph 2
Year-on-year, with seasonal and calendar adjustments, sales increased by 1.1%, without adjustment by 0.9%. The total growth was contributed to by 'telecommunications' by 1.6 p.p., while 'post and courier activities' dropped by 7.3% and slowed down the sales growth in communications by 0.7 p.p. in total (see Table 2b). In 'telecommunications' the continuous growth went on from the beginning of data collection, i.e. from 1997, however, the dynamics of growth compared with the average for the previous four quarters decreased by almost 3 p.p.
Seasonally adjusted sales in transport and communications dropped in Q2 by 0.4%, quarter-on-quarter, at constant prices. In the year-on-year comparison, sales increased by 0.7% and by 0.6% not seasonally adjusted.

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

Contact person: Alena Hellerová, phone: 274052921, e-mail: alena.hellerova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 5 August 2008
End of data processing: 8 August 2008
Data for Q2 2008 are preliminary, revised data for all months of 2008 will be known in June 2009, at the latest.
Quarterly data since 1997 are available in time series ( /financial_indicators_time_series ).