Index of service and trade production, September 2024

Service and trade production down monthly, up year-on-year

Service and trade production went down at the monthly, but up at the annual level. Compared to August, it decreased the most in real estate activities.

29 November 2024 at 10:30
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At the monthly level, decrease in both services and trade

The production went down by 1.1% in total over the previous month. In service activities, it decreased by 1.3% and in trade by 0.5%.

As regards groups of service activities, it declined in four out of six. The largest decrease was recorded in real estate activities (by 4.2%), followed by accommodation and food service activities (by 1.5%), administrative and support service activities (by 1.4%) and transportation and storage (by 0.4%). On the other hand, it increased in information and communication by 1.6% and in professional, scientific and technical activities by 0.6%.

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

Compared to last September, service and trade production grew by 0.9%. In trade it went up by 3.1% and in service activities down by 0.2%.

It increased in most groups of service activities. Growth was the highest – for the fifth consecutive month – in real estate activities (by 3.5%), followed by information and communication (by 2.5%), accommodation and food service activities (by 2.1%) and transportation and storage (by 0.6%). A decline was recorded in professional, scientific and technical activities (by 3.6%) and in administrative and support service activities (by 0.2%).

In the first nine months of this year, service and trade production grew by 2.1% over the same period of the previous year – in trade by 2.6% and in service activities by 1.7%. It increased in four out of six groups of service activities, the most in real estate activities (by 7.0%).

The table with the latest data is available in the SiStat Database.

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 2024 Aug 2024	Sep 2024 Sep 2023	Jan–Sep 2024 Jan–Sep 2023
	% change
Total G–N¹⁾	-1.1	0.9	2.1
G Wholesale and retail trade	-0.5	3.1	2.6
45 Wholesale, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	-0.2	4.5	8.4
46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	-1.3	3.6	2.3
47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	-0.9	1.4	1.0
H–N Service activities¹⁾	-1.3	-0.2	1.7
H Transportation and storage	-0.4	0.6	-1.8
49 Land transport and transport via pipelines	-2.6	-1.0	-1.5
50 Water transport	-7.3	-1.6	6.8
51 Air transport	-5.5	63.6	71.4
52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation	4.1	-0.8	-4.1
53 Postal and courier activities	-2.1	-1.4	-6.4
I Accommodation and food service activities	-1.5	2.1	3.1
55 Accommodation	-1.6	4.5	2.5
56 Food and beverage service activities	-0.7	0.4	3.6
J Information and communication	1.6	2.5	6.1
58 Publishing activities	-5.3	-3.2	1.2
59 Motion picture, video and TV programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities	-8.8	-19.5	-11.6
60 Programming and broadcasting activities	-2.6	-5.5	-6.2
61 Telecommunications	-1.0	-2.8	2.0
62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities	1.7	6.8	10.5
63 Information service activities	7.4	-2.5	4.0
L Real estate activities	-4.2	3.5	7.0
M Professional, scientific and technical activities¹⁾	0.6	-3.6	-0.2
69 Legal and accounting activities	1.8	20.2	8.6
70.2 Management consultancy activities	-2.7	-8.6	6.6
71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis	-0.2	-6.6	-2.6
73 Advertising and market research	0.3	-21.8	-22.9
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities	9.9	-16.2	-12.9
N Administrative and support service activities	-1.4	-0.2	3.0
77 Rental and leasing activities	-5.3	10.3	26.3
78 Employment activities	-2.7	-12.8	-11.0
79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation service and related activities	-0.8	0.3	6.8
80 Security and investigation activities	5.3	-13.2	0.6
81 Services to buildings and landscape activities	3.9	3.7	4.2
82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities	-6.3	20.6	20.8

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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