Services - 3. quarter of 2022

Sales of tour operators increased, y-o-y, in food and beverage service activities they decreased

09.11.2022
Code: 180030-22
 

In the Q3 2022, sales in services adjusted for calendar effects increased in real terms by 6.9%, year‑on-year (y-o-y). Seasonally adjusted sales increased in real terms by 0.2%, quarter‑on‑quarter (q-o-q).

Quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted sales in services1) increased in real terms by 0.2%, in the Q3. The highest growth was reported by the CZ-NACE section of information and communication, whereas a decrease was reported by the section of accommodation and food service activities and by transportation and storage.

In the year-on-year comparison, sales increased in real terms by 6.9%. The y-o-y increase was recorded by all major activities of services (CZ-NACE sections) except for accommodation and food service activities.

“The year-on-year growth of sales in services slowed down from 112.1% in the Q2 to 106.9% in the Q3. As for activities classified to the section of accommodation and food service activities, there was even a year-on-year decrease by 5.9%,” Tomáš Harák, Head of the Services, Trade, and Environmental Statistics Data Support Unit of the CZSO, says.
 

Development in individual industries of services (CZ-NACE sections) was as follows:

  • sales in transportation and storage increased by 12.8%. Mainly sales in the following increased: in air transport (by 80.9%), in water transport (by 16.8%), and in warehousing and support activities for transportation (by 15.4%). Sales also increased in land transport and transport via pipelines (by 6.9%) and in postal and courier activities (by 0.6%);
  • sales in accommodation and food service activities decreased by 5.9%. In food and beverage service activities, sales decreased by 10.8%, whereas in accommodation sales increased by 8.8%;
  • sales in information and communication increased by 3.1%. The development of sales in computer programming, consultancy and related activities, which increased by 7.6%, contributed the most to the total growth. An increase of sales was also recorded by information service activities (by 6.1%), which include data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals and by telecommunications (by 3.5%). On the other hand, a sales decrease was recorded by publishing activities (by 0.5%), programming and broadcasting activities (by 23.1%), and in music and motion picture activities (by 25.2%);
  • sales in real estate activities increased by 3.8%, y-o-y;
  • in professional, scientific and technical activities2) sales increased by 2.3%. The highest sales growth was reported for the following: other professional, scientific and technical activities (by 10.7%) and for legal and accounting activities (by 6.7%). Sales increased by 5.8% for architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis. Sales in activities of head offices; management consultancy activities increased by 1.1%. On the other hand, a decrease of sales by 13.1% was reported by advertising and market research;
  • in administrative and support service activities, sales increased by 17.8%. Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities reported the highest sales increase by 95.6%. Sales in office administrative, office support and other business support activities increased by 6.8%, sales in services to buildings and landscape activities by 4.7%, sales in security and investigation activities by 2.7%. Sales in rental and leasing activities stagnated. A y-o-y decrease of sales by 12.8% was recorded by employment activities.


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Notes:

All data in the text of the News Release are presented at constant prices. The year-on-year development is published after having been adjusted for working days. Quarter-on-quarter rates have also been seasonally adjusted.
Enterprises are classified to the economic activity according to their principal (prevailing) activity, which is such an activity, from which the enterprise gets the highest value added.
Data for the Q3 2022 are preliminary; final data for individual quarters of 2022 will be released in March 2023.
Methodology: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/2-slu_m2013
1) For the purposes 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), and Administrative and support service activities (N).
2) For the purposes 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.

Responsible head at the CZSO: Marie Boušková, Director of the Trade, Transport, Services, Tourism, and Environmental Statistics Department, phone number: (+420) 274 052 935 or (+420) 732 349 448, e-mail: marie.bouskova@czso.cz
Contact person: Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit, phone number: (+420) 274 052 691 or (+420) 735 130 284, e-mail: jana.gotvaldova@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO (SP 1-12)
End of data collection: 27 October 2022
End of data processing: 2 November 2022
Related outputs: Base indices since 2000 and y-o-y indices since 2001 are available in time series (except for the section J, which is available since 2005 and 2006, respectively).
(https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/slu_ts)
Next News Release will be published on: 9 February 2023

 

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  • Annexes:
  • Table 1 Sales in services (year-on-year indices, adjusted for calendar effects, constant prices)
  • Chart 1 Sales in services (base indices, constant prices)
  • Chart 2 Sales in services (year-on-year indices, constant prices)
  • Chart 3 Sales in services – international comparison (base indices, seasonally adjusted, current prices)
  • Chart 4 Sales in services – contributions of selected industries (CZ-NACE sections) to the year-on-year change (adjusted for calendar effects, constant prices)
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Published: 09.11.2022
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.


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