Index of service and trade production, September 2023

Production up in both services and trade

In September 2023, production increased at the monthly level in both trade and services. Among the latter, it went up the most in accommodation and food service activities and down the most in professional, scientific and technical activities.

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At the monthly level, the largest increase in accommodation and food service activities

Service and trade production went up by 0.8% over the previous month: in service activities by 0.8% and in trade by 0.1%.

Among service activities, production increased in accommodation and food service activities (by 5.0%), followed by administrative and support service activities (by 3.0%), and transportation and storage (by 2.4%). It decreased in professional, scientific and technical activities (by 3.8%), followed by real estate activities (by 1.6%), while in information and communication it remained the same as in the previous month.

At the annual level, decrease in trade

Compared to previous September, service and trade production declined by 2.3%. In trade it went down by 6.6%, while in service activities it grew by 0.2%.

Among service activities, the decline was the largest in transportation and storage (by 8.2%), followed by real estate activities (by 5.0%). On the other hand, production increased the most in accommodation and food service activities (by 13.0%), followed by administrative and support service activities (by 6.5%), professional, scientific and technical activities (by 2.1%) and information and communication (by 0.1%).

In the first nine months of the year, service and trade production went down by 0.6% compared to the same period of the previous year. In service activities, it grew by 1.6%, while in trade it declined by 4.2%. It increased in five out of six groups of service activities, the most in accommodation and food service activities (by 8.9%). It decreased only in transportation and storage (by 5.7%).

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Index of service and trade production, Slovenia

1) In the trend-cycle component the most recent data are unreliable (the end-point problem).

Index of service and trade production, Slovenia

	Sep 2023 Aug 2023	Sep 2023 Sep 2022	Jan–Sep 2023 Jan–Sep 2022
	% change
Total G–N¹⁾	0.8	-2.3	-0.6
G Wholesale and retail trade	0.1	-6.6	-4.2
45 Wholesale, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	2.9	10.1	9.9
46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	0.7	-6.8	-4.9
47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	-0.5	-9.7	-6.6
H–N Service activities¹⁾	0.8	0.2	1.6
H Transportation and storage	2.4	-8.2	-5.7
49 Land transport and transport via pipelines	1.2	-2.1	-1.1
50 Water transport	21.6	132.0	84.7
51 Air transport	18.6	-1.8	-26.8
52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation	2.7	-15.7	-11.6
53 Postal and courier activities	1.1	-8.1	-6.6
I Accommodation and food service activities	5.0	13.0	8.9
55 Accommodation	2.4	10.5	8.1
56 Food and beverage service activities	5.9	13.8	9.1
J Information and communication	0.0	0.1	2.2
58 Publishing activities	-3.4	-2.2	0.9
59 Motion picture, video and TV programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities	-5.7	-2.2	14.0
60 Programming and broadcasting activities	-11.0	-16.9	0.9
61 Telecommunications	2.6	3.9	2.8
62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities	0.0	-0.6	1.6
63 Information service activities	4.4	-1.9	-3.3
L Real estate activities	-1.6	-5.0	0.8
M Professional, scientific and technical activities¹⁾	-3.8	2.1	4.1
69 Legal and accounting activities	-6.0	-1.6	6.7
70.2 Management consultancy activities	5.5	-1.7	-4.9
71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis	-9.4	1.2	6.3
73 Advertising and market research	-2.6	4.2	6.8
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities	1.0	21.4	16.9
N Administrative and support service activities	3.0	6.5	7.4
77 Rental and leasing activities	16.1	37.4	46.4
78 Employment activities	-1.8	-9.2	1.6
79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation service and related activities	3.0	22.4	44.7
80 Security and investigation activities	22.1	28.1	5.1
81 Services to buildings and landscape activities	1.6	6.8	2.3
82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities	1.9	2.8	-1.7

1) Service activities are covered according to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 acts in the field of business statistics.

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

Data are seasonally adjusted.

Data for the last 10 months are provisional. With each release, the data for this period can be corrected and supplemented with new data.

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