Index of service and trade production, June 2024

Service and trade production lower than in the previous month

In June, production at the monthly level increased in trade and decreased in services. It went down the most in transportation and storage.

  • 29 August 2024 at 10:30
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  • provisional data
At the monthly level growth in trade and decline in services

Service and trade production went down by 1.6% over the previous month. In trade, production grew by 1.1%, while in service activities, it decreased by 3.6%.

Production decreased in all groups of service activities. The largest decline was in transportation and storage (by 3.5%), followed by administrative and support service activities (by 3.0%), professional, scientific and technical activities (by 2.7%), accommodation and food service activities (by 1.8%), information and communication (by 1.4%) and real estate activities (by 0.2%).

Real estate activities up the most at the annual level 

Compared to last June, service and trade production grew by 0.9%. In trade it went up by 3.1% and in service activities down by 0.1%.

In service activities growth was highest in real estate activities (by 12.3%), followed by information and communication (by 4.5%), and administrative and support service activities (by 2.3%). A decline was recorded in professional, scientific and technical activities (by 3.7%), transportation and storage (by 1.8%) and accommodation and food service activities (by 0.1%).

In the first six months of this year, service and trade production grew by 1.9% over the same period of the previous year. In service activities it went up by 1.9% and in trade by 1.7%. It increased in five out of six groups of service activities, the most in information and communication (by 8.6%).

The table with the latest data is available in the SiStat Database.
Index of service and trade production, Slovenia
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
Jun 2024
May 2024
Jun 2024
Jun 2023
Jan–Jun 2024
Jan–Jun 2023
% change
Total G–N1)-1.60.91.9
G Wholesale and retail trade1.13.11.7
45 Wholesale, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles1.54.79.3
46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles2.54.60.4
47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles-0.60.30.2
H–N Service activities1)-3.6-0.11.9
H Transportation and storage-3.5-1.8-3.4
49 Land transport and transport via pipelines-2.0-1.0-2.9
50 Water transport36.841.25.8
51 Air transport-2.471.462.2
52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation-4.4-3.4-5.6
53 Postal and courier activities-4.2-14.6-8.4
I Accommodation and food service activities-1.8-0.12.2
55 Accommodation-4.4-3.5-0.6
56 Food and beverage service activities-3.8-0.93.9
J Information and communication-1.44.58.6
58 Publishing activities1.52.72.2
59 Motion picture, video and TV programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities-5.2-25.7-9.3
60 Programming and broadcasting activities-6.1-12.8-10.1
61 Telecommunications1.80.33.2
62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities-6.97.813.3
63 Information service activities-2.1-1.88.1
L Real estate activities-0.212.33.7
M Professional, scientific and technical activities1)-2.7-3.71.5
69 Legal and accounting activities-2.1-0.96.1
70.2 Management consultancy activities1.612.512.4
71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis-11.2-19.6-2.2
73 Advertising and market research3.5-8.1-22.4
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities-13.7-26.2-10.6
N Administrative and support service activities-3.02.34.0
77 Rental and leasing activities-7.022.429.7
78 Employment activities-4.0-14.6-9.9
79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation service and related activities-6.08.111.4
80 Security and investigation activities-2.01.93.4
81 Services to buildings and landscape activities-5.6-2.14.8
82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities-0.722.016.9
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
With the release for January 2024, we transitioned to the new base year 2021 and a new observation unit – kind of activity unit (KAU). The data were revised until January 2021 inclusive and are published at the level of the new observation unit. The data before that period differ from them and are published at the enterprise level.

Data are seasonally adjusted. To eliminate these effects, models are used that are independent for each time series.

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

Additional explanations are available in the methodological explanations.


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