Table 1: Revisions in the Composite Index
Revision |
Previous data |
New data |
February 2019 |
|
0.31 |
January 2019 |
0.28 |
0.37 |
December 2018 |
0.26 |
0.28 |
November 2018 |
0.27 |
0.28 |
Table 2: Changes in the Index components in recent months
(monthly percent change, unless otherwise noted)
|
February 2019 |
January 2019 |
December 2018 |
November 2018 |
Industrial Production Index (excluding mining and quarrying) |
|
5.4 |
-0.5 |
-2.7 |
Services Revenue Index (excluding education and public administration) |
|
2.2 |
-2.3 |
1.3 |
Retail Trade Revenue Index |
|
1.0 |
0.1 |
0.6 |
Imports of consumer goods1 |
3.4 |
-1.4 |
-0.9 |
5.5 |
Imports of manufacturing inputs (excluding fuels)1 |
0.7 |
3.1 |
-2.2 |
4.4 |
Goods exports (excluding agriculture) 1 |
11.0 |
0.4 |
4.1 |
-0.6 |
Services exports (excluding transportation) 1 |
|
6.7 |
-2.6 |
-1.7 |
Number of employee posts in the private sector |
|
|
0.1 |
0.2 |
Rate of vacant employee posts out of total number of employed people in the business sector2 |
3.5 |
3.6 |
3.6 |
3.6 |
Building starts3 |
|
|
8.7 |
|
1 Foreign trade indices are quantitative (in contrast to CBS monthly foreign trade indices). Beginning from January 14, 2018, import data generated by the CBS are based on a new system. Thus, the decline appearing in January may not reflect economic factors but rather technical recording issues. The Composite Index model has a component that deals with outlier observations.
2 The job vacancy rate is included in the Index at its level, seasonally adjusted and smoothed.
3 As the Central Bureau of Statistics ceased publishing monthly data on building starts, since July 2016 the calculation of the building starts component in the Composite Index has changed. The Component is calculated at a quarterly frequency and the change (in percent, quarterly, seasonally adjusted) is attributed to the last month of the quarter for which it is published.
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