Index of service and trade production, August 2024

Service and trade production slightly lower than in the previous month

In August, production at the monthly level decreased in trade and increased in services. It went up the most in administrative and support service activities.

  • 29 October 2024 at 10:30
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  • Updated
  • 30 October 2024 at 10:20
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  • provisional data
At the monthly level, growth in services and decline in trade

Service and trade production went down by 0.5% over the previous month. In service activities, production grew by 0.9%, while in trade, it decreased by 0.7%.

Among service activities, production increased the most in administrative and support service activities (by 3.3%), followed by accommodation and food service activities (by 0.8%), and information and communication (by 0.7%). On the other hand, a decrease was recorded in professional, scientific and technical activities (by 2.5%), real estate activities (by 1.5%), and transportation and storage (by 0.3%). 

At the annual level, for the fourth time in a row the highest growth in real estate activities 

Compared to last August, service and trade production grew by 2.9%: in trade by 4.1% and in service activities by 1.8%.

Among service activities, growth was the largest in real estate activities, which grew for the fourth consecutive month (this time by 12.6%), followed by accommodation and food service activities (by 7.5%), administrative and support service activities (by 4.0%), and information and communication (by 1.6%). A decline was recorded in professional, scientific and technical activities (by 4.5%) and transportation and storage (by 0.3%).

In the first eight months of this year, service and trade production grew by 2.4% over the same period of the previous year. In trade it went up by 2.6% and in service activities by 2.0%. It increased in five out of six groups of service activities, the most in real estate activities (by 7.2%).

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
Aug 2024
Jul 2024
Aug 2024
Aug 2023
Jan–Aug 2024
Jan–Aug 2023
% change
Total G–N1)-0.52.92.4
G Wholesale and retail trade-0.74.12.6
45 Wholesale, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles0.37.99.0
46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles-1.36.52.1
47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles0.52.90.9
H–N Service activities1)0.91.82.0
H Transportation and storage-0.3-0.3-2.5
49 Land transport and transport via pipelines-0.32.2-1.6
50 Water transport7.429.19.5
51 Air transport6.6150.675.7
52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation-0.2-6.0-5.0
53 Postal and courier activities-1.3-11.0-9.3
I Accommodation and food service activities0.87.53.2
55 Accommodation-0.29.51.9
56 Food and beverage service activities1.37.64.2
J Information and communication0.71.66.7
58 Publishing activities0.22.61.7
59 Motion picture, video and TV programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities5.2-8.1-10.1
60 Programming and broadcasting activities-12.8-5.3-7.0
61 Telecommunications1.20.72.4
62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities1.76.311.3
63 Information service activities-3.6-5.94.9
L Real estate activities-1.512.67.2
M Professional, scientific and technical activities1)-2.5-4.50.9
69 Legal and accounting activities5.58.36.5
70.2 Management consultancy activities1.215.612.1
71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis-11.0-16.2-2.6
73 Advertising and market research-3.6-26.5-22.7
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities-3.5-21.5-12.0
N Administrative and support service activities3.34.03.5
77 Rental and leasing activities21.934.729.0
78 Employment activities0.6-11.7-10.6
79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation service and related activities5.15.67.9
80 Security and investigation activities-4.2-1.52.8
81 Services to buildings and landscape activities-2.10.33.9
82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities8.141.421.2
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. 14 August 2023 is also taken into account as a day off. 

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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