Sales of manufactured industrial products

Information on the type, volume and value of industrial goods produced and sold, industrial services provided, volume of goods produced by sub-contractors and payment received for it meeting the list of industrial products (PRODCOM) is used to find out and analyse directions of market development as well as see the connection between sales of industrial output and foreign trade within and outside the EU.

Economically active enterprises the main or secondary economic activity whereof is industrial production.

Economically active enterprises whose main or secondary economic activity is classified under Sections B or C, or Class 38.32 of Section E of NACE Rev. 2, or, from 2025 onwards, under Sections B or C, or Class 38.21 of Section E of NACE Rev. 2.1.

• Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics.
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics.
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 laying down the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197, as regards the coverage of the product classification.
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/665 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 as regards the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown.
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use.

Statistics database

EU data on production of manufactured goods

Eurostat (statistical office of the European Union) is publishing high-quality Europe-wide statistics and indicators that enable comparisons between countries and regions – Database.

Statistics for the production of manufactured goods based on PRODCOM list.

Data are collected based on a common methodology since January 2006, using a threshold sample. As the data are collected in a sample survey, the coverage of the sample varies from year to year in each of the NACE Classes.

N/A

Data on the type, volume and value of goods produced and sold are obtained with the help of enterprise survey conducted based on a threshold sample. The annual official statistics questionnaire 1- Industry was changed notably in 2022 (wen collecting information on 2021) – the title thereof was changed to Types of Industrial Products and Services (until then, the questionnaire 1- Industry  was titled Report on Production and Sale of Industrial Goods, Industrial Services Provided).

Changes in the questionnaire were made in compliance with the provisions of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 (Table 26 Country-level business statistics on industrial production included in the Annex 1, Part B) stating that in respect to the products sold and produced a sub-contracted operation should be provided for each PRODCOM list code (List of PRODucts of the European COMmunity)

Annual data are collected from economically active enterprises whose main or secondary economic activity is classified under Sections B or C, or Class 38.32 of Section E of NACE Rev. 2, and which employ 10 or more persons in industrial production. From the 2025 data onwards, the activity classification is based on Sections B or C, or Class 38.21 of Section E of NACE Rev. 2.1.

To ensure that each NACE Rev. 2 class (NACE Rev. 2.1 from the 2025 data onwards) covers at least 90% of the national industrial output during the reference year, enterprises employing fewer than 10 persons are also surveyed in selected industries.

Number of enterprises included in the sample

The largest share of the data is submitted via e-report, other forms of submission (post, e-mail, telephone) are less common.

The sample does not include enterprises information on which is imputed from other surveys and reports.

Revision of the published data is carried out if significant mistakes in enterprise reports are found or if respondent specifies some information.

Revised data are published at next publication time and the last three years are revised.