Business turnover, employment, wage and hours worked indices in industry
Year-on-year change rate of Industry Turnover Index less negative
- August 2012
08 October 2012
Summary
Industry Turnover Index registered a nominal year-on-year change rate of -1.6% in August (-4.0% in the previous month). This result was mainly due to the less negative performance of the domestic market, which index decreased 4.9% (reduction of 8.5% in July). External market year-on-year rate was 4.3% (3.0% in the previous month). In both cases their behaviour was largely due to the evolution of the energy industry turnover.
In year-on-year terms, employment, wages and hours worked, adjusted for calendar effects, decreased by 4.7%, 5.0% and 7.6%, respectively.