1 August 2011
2011- n° 198In May 2011, the turnover surged in transportation and storage and in business support
activities Turnover in the wholesale trade and business services - May 2011
In May 2011, the turnover soared in transportation and storage (+5.0 %). It also increased in business support activities (+2.9 %) and, to a lesser extent, in information and communication (+0.5 %) and in the “wholesale trade…” (+0.4 %). It was stable in real estate activities (0.0 %).
Every index in this issue is in value, seasonally and working-day adjusted.
In May 2011, the turnover soared in transportation and storage (+5.0 %). It also increased in business support activities (+2.9 %) and, to a lesser extent, in information and communication (+0.5 %) and in the “wholesale trade…” (+0.4 %). It was stable in real estate activities (0.0 %).
graphiqueGraph1_anglais – Wholesale trade and business service
- Source : INSEE
Quarter on quarter (q-o-q), the turnover rose : by 2.7 % in transportation and storage, by 1.6 % in the “wholesale trade...”, by 1.5 % in business support activities, by 0.4 % in information and communication and by 0.4 % in real estate activities.
Year on year (y-o-y), the turnover increased by 9.5 % in the “wholesale trade...”. It also rose in business support activities (+7.2 %), in transportation and storage (+6.2 %) and, to a lesser extent, in real estate activities (+2.6 %) and in information and communication (+1.9 %).
The SA-WDA evolution in March has been revised by –0.4 point in transportation and storage. The decrease, initially announced at –1.9 %, is corrected at –2.3 %. In the same period, the SA-WDA evolution has been revised by +0.3 point in the “wholesale trade..”, +0.3 point in business support, +0.1 point in real estate activities and –0.1 point in information and communication. These revisions are mostly due to the new calculation of the SA-WDA coefficients.
tableauTableau 1 – Monthly turnover indices
| Change in % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classification NAF rev. 2 | Weight | May/ April | April/ March | q-o-q (1) | y-o-y (2) |
| 46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 1000 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 9.5 |
| Wholesale on a fee or contract basis | 166 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 6.4 |
| Wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals | 62 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 4.6 | 29.8 |
| Wholesale of food. beverages and tobacco | 183 | –0.8 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 7.0 |
| Wholesale of household goods | 173 | 1.2 | –0.8 | 1.5 | 3.0 |
| Wholesale of professional equipement goods | 215 | –0.8 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 10.3 |
| Other specialised wholesale | 193 | 0.9 | –2.0 | 2.2 | 13.1 |
| H Transportation and storage | 1000 | 5.0 | –2.3 | 2.7 | 6.2 |
| J Information and communication | 1000 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
| L Real estate activities | 1000 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.6 |
| M+N Business support activities | 1000 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 7.2 |
| M Professional. scientific and technical activities | 626 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 7.7 |
| N Administrative and support service activities | 374 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 6.3 |
- (1) Quarter-on-quarter: last three months / three previous months.
- (2) Year-on-year: last three months / three same months of the previous year.
- The codes correspond to differents levels of aggregation of the classification NAF rev. 2.
- Source: INSEE
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