Sales of manufactured industrial products
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
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.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
Economically active enterprises the main or secondary economic activity whereof is industrial production.
Statistical population
Economically active enterprises the main or secondary economic activity of which in compliance with NACE Rev. 2 is can be classified under Section B and C or Class 38.32 of the Section E.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
- 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) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use.
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
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.
Length of comparable time series
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.
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
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)
Data collection
Annual data with the help of the report are collected from economically active enterprises the main or secondary activity whereof is industrial production (classified under the Section B and C of the NACE Rev. 2 as well as Class 38.32 of the Section E) and which in industrial production employ 10 or more persons.
Aiming to ensure at least 90 % of the national industrial output during the refence year in each Class of the NACE Rev. 2, in selected sectors also enterprises employing fewer people are surveyed.
Number of enterprises included in the sample
Year | Enterprises |
2022 | 2 278 |
2021 | 2 264 |
2020 | 2 468 |
2019 | 2 596 |
2018 | 2 721 |
2017 | 2 847 |
2016 | 2 699 |
2015 | 2 777 |
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.
Data compilation
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.