Services - 1. quarter of 2018

Sales in information and communication increased the most

10.05.2018
Code: 180030-18
 

In the Q1 2018, seasonally adjusted sales in services increased at constant prices by 2.2%, quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q). Sales adjusted for calendar effects increased at constant prices by 3.4%, year‑on-year (y-o-y); non-adjusted sales increased by 2.3%, y‑o‑y.

In the Q1 2018, seasonally adjusted sales in services1) increased at constant prices by 2.2%, q-o-q. A q-o-q growth was recorded by all sections except for real estate activities.  

Year-on-year, sales adjusted for calendar effects increased by 3.4%. The most marked increase was in the section of information and communication followed by the section of transportation and storage.  

Non-adjusted sales increased by 2.3%, year-on-year. Development in individual industries of services (CZ-NACE sections) was as follows:

-          sales in transportation and storage increased by 3.6%. The highest sales growth was in warehousing and support activities for transportation (+6.8%). The following also recorded increases of sales: water transport (+3.2%), postal and courier activities (+2.9%), and land transport and transport via pipelines (+2.0%), which is the most important as for the volume of sales. On the contrary, sales dropped in air transport (-7.1%);

-          sales in accommodation and food service activities increased by 1.7%. In the accommodation the sales increase was by 2.6% and in the food and beverage service activities by 1.4%;

-          sales in information and communication increased by 4.9%. Most of all, sales increased in information service activities (+7.1%), telecommunications (+5.5%), and computer programming, consultancy and related activities (+5.0%), which include, for example, computer programming activities, computer consultancy activities, and computer facilities management activities. Sales increased also in publishing activities (+4.4%) and programming and broadcasting activities (+3.2%). A decrease in sales was reported by the so-called music and motion picture activities (-1.7%);

-          sales in real estate activities decreased by 1.5%, y-o-y. The decrease was caused mainly by a drop of sales in buying and selling of own real estate and renting and operating of own or leased real estate (-2.1%), which are important in terms of their volume. On the contrary, in real estate activities on a fee or contract basis sales increased by 0.9%;

-          sales in professional, scientific and technical activities2) increased by 0.8%. In this section, sales increased especially in other professional, scientific and technical activities (+5.4%), which include, for example, translation services and photographic services, but also business brokerage activities or activities of quantity surveyors. Increases in sales were recorded also by architectural and engineering activities (+1.9%), which are important in terms of volume as well as legal and accounting activities (+1.5%). On the contrary, sales decreased, y-o-y, in advertising and market research (-4.6%) as well as in activities of head offices; management consultancy activities (-0.8%);

-          sales in administrative and support service activities increased by 0.7%. The sales increase was the most marked in travel agency, tour operator reservation service and related activities (+6.1%), which again started to grow, y-o-y, after having decreased in the previous quarter. Higher sales were reached also in rental and leasing activities (+3.6) and in office administrative, office support and other business support activities (+1.8%). In other economic activities of this section sales were already decreasing, y-o-y; the deepest drop was in employment activities (-4.2%), which thus continued in the decrease from the Q4 2017. Lower sales were recorded also by services to buildings and landscape activities (-2.4%) and by security and investigation activities (-1.3%).

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Starting from the News Release with results for the Q1 2018, a rebasing was made in short-term statistics. Besides the change of the base period at fixed-base indices (that are newly compared to the average of the year 2015 instead of the average of 2010), also the weighting scheme of the year 2015 was used.
In relation to the transition to the new base period, also a revision of the year 2017 has been made.        

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Notes:
1) For the purpose of the News Release, services include the following CZ-NACE sections: Transportation and storage (H), Accommodation and food service activities (I), Information and communication (J), Real estate activities (L), Professional, scientific and technical activities – excluding Scientific research and development and Veterinary activities (M excluding 72 and 75), Administrative and support service activities (N).
2) For the purpose of the News Release, section M – Professional, scientific and technical activities does not include CZ-NACE 72 – Scientific research and development and CZ-NACE 75 – Veterinary activities.

All data in the text of the News Release are at constant prices.
Data for the Q1 2018 are preliminary; final data for individual quarters of 2018 will be available in June 2019.
Responsible head at the CZSO: Marie Boušková, Director of the Services Statistics Department, phone number: (+420) 274 052 935, e-mail: marie.bouskova@czso.cz
Contact person: Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Information Service Activities Statistics Unit,
phone number: (+420) 274 052 691,
e-mail: jana.gotvaldova@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO (SP 1-12)
End of data collection: 26 April 2018
End of data processing: 2 May 2018
Related outputs: Base indices since 2000 and y-o-y indices since 2001 are available in time series (excluding section J, which is available since 2005 or rather 2006).
(https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/slu_ts)  
Next News Release will be published on: 8 August 2018

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  • Annexes:
  • Table 1 Sales in services (year-on-year indices)
  • Table 2 Sales in services (year-on-year changes, decomposition of increase - year-on-year)
  • Table 3 Sales in services (year-on-year indices, adjusted for calendar effects)
  • Chart 1 Sales in services – base indices, constant prices
  • Chart 2 Sales in services – international comparison, seasonally adjusted, current prices
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Published: 10.05.2018
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.


Contact: Information Services Unit - Headquarters, tel.: +420 274 056 789, email: infoservis@czso.cz