Services producer price indices

Services producer price indices measures the change in prices of services provided during a set period of time against the base period.

Services producer price indices (SPPI) are used for the estimation of Gross Domestic Product at constant prices, as well as for economic analysis and international comparisons. 

Observation unit – Kind of activity unit (KAU).

Reporting unit – enterprise.

Economically active enterprises with 4 or more employees or annual turnover larger than the threshold set by the Bureau of EUR 100 thousand, and with the main or secondary activity corresponding to the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities NACE Rev. 2 section:

• H “Transportation and storage”;
• I “Accommodation and food service activities”;
• J “Information and Communication”;
• L “Real estate activities”;
• M “Professional, scientific and technical activities” (except of 70.1, 72 and 75);
• N “Administrative and support service activities”.

• Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European 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.

Statistics database

European Union Member States data

Data on the EU-27 and on a country-by-country basis are published in the Eurostat database section Services.

• Comparable data for NACE Rev. 2 (49.41, 52.10, 52.24, 53, 53.10, 53.20, 58, 69.20, 80 and 81.2) are available for the period since 2006.
• Comparable data for NACE Rev. 2 (62, 63, 69.10, 70.2 and 73) are available for the period since 2009.
• Comparable data for NACE Rev. 2 (71 and 78) are available for the period since 2015.
• Comparable data for NACE Rev. 2 (Service industries - total, H, 49, 50, 51, 52, I, 55, 56, J, 59, 60, 61, L, 68, M (except 70.1, 72, 75), 69, 74, N, 77, 79, 81, 82) are available for the period since 2021.

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Data are obtained from the statistical reports on prices of services (1-PC (quarterly report) and 2-PC (annual report)) as well as information on hourly labour costs collected and calculated within the framework of the wages and salaries statistics (enterprise surveys 2-darbs and calculations based on the State Revenue Service data). Weights are calculated basing on administrative data and information from the complex report on activity (1-gada) collected and compiled by the Enterprise Structural and Financial Statistics Section.

In 2025 approximately 2 500 enterprises were included in the sample of producer prices for services and hourly labour costs. More than 4 000 prices and hourly labour costs are collected quarterly. Depending on the sector either prices for services or hourly labour costs are used for the calculation of price indices.

The list of enterprises participating in the Services producer price monitoring is revised annually to exclude unstable enterprises and to include enterprises with a significant presence in the sector. 

Certain services for regular price registration are selected by statisticians in cooperation with the experts of the sampled enterprises. The list of these services’ representatives is updated once a year.

In SPPI calculations Laspeyres-type formula is used. SPPI are calculated comparing prices in the reference quarter with base period prices (4th quarter of the previous year). Indices are calculated separately for each services sector, starting with the lowest level.

Depending on the specifics of the realized services, index is calculated by using the average sale price of certain service set by the definite service provider. Two years old net turnover broken down by NACE sections, divisions, groups and classes is used as the weights. In order to ensure the symmetry of weights and price base periods, in 2025 weights used in the SPPI calculations have been recalculated into prices of the 4th quarter of 2024.

The SPPI is calculated using information from the statistical report form 1-PC, data collected and processed in the Labour Cost Survey and Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.