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Informations rapidesIn March 2021, turnover bounced back sharply in manufacturing industry (+ 8.4%)  Turnover in industry and construction - March 2021

In March 2021, turnover bounced back sharply in the manufacturing industry (+8.4% after −4.8%) as in industry as a whole (+6.1% after −1.4%).

Export turnover also rebounded sharply in March (+15.5% after −14.1%).

Compared to February 2020 (last month before the first lockdown), turnover was in slight rise in the manufacturing industry (+0.4%) and was increasing in the whole industry (+2.4%).

Informations rapides
No 142
Paru le :Paru le28/05/2021
Prochaine parution le : 26/09/2024 at 12:00 - July 2024
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In the following paragraphs, percentage changes by subsections are presented in descending order of their contribution to the overall percentage change of the industrial production index. The contribution of a subsection takes into account its weight and the magnitude of its evolution.

All data are corrected for seasonal and working day effects (SA-WDA).

In March 2021, turnover bounced back sharply in the manufacturing industry (+8.4% after −4.8%) as in industry as a whole (+6.1% after −1.4%).

Export turnover also rebounded sharply in March (+15.5% after −14.1%).

Compared to February 2020 (last month before the first lockdown), turnover was in slight rise in the manufacturing industry (+0.4%) and was increasing in the whole industry (+2.4%).

In March, turnover in the manufacturing industry increased specially  in the manufacture of transport equipment

In March, turnover increased very sharply in the manufacture of transport equipment (+44.8% after −29.6%), due to a sharp rebound in the “other transport equipment“ sector (+115.7% after a sharp fall in February ; −49.8%). The turnover also grew in the other sectors of the manufacturing industry; in the manufacture of food products and beverages (+3.5% after +1.3%), in “other manufacturing” (+1.7% after −0.4%), in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (+18.4% after +7.4%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (+2.5% after +0.2%). Conversely, it decreased in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply; waste management (−2.5% after +13.6%).

Compared to February 2020, turnover increased in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply; waste management (+12.1%), in “other manufacturing” (+2.8%), in the manufacture of food products and beverages (+3.6%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (+2.8%). In contrast to that, turnover was in decline in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (−10.3%) and in the manufacture of transport equipment (−7.6%).

Turnover in manufacturing industry

2015 based SA-WDA
Turnover in manufacturing industry (2015 based SA-WDA)
Manufacturing industry Man. of food products and beverages Man. of transport equipment Other manufacturing
2016-01 98.76 99.48 100.1 99.93
2016-02 98.32 100.16 97.82 99.74
2016-03 98.27 100.04 101.7 98.13
2016-04 98.58 97.91 102.64 99.06
2016-05 98.36 99.12 101.62 98.49
2016-06 99.57 99.71 109.8 97.44
2016-07 98.2 100.1 99.26 98.12
2016-08 100.72 101.34 106.71 99.6
2016-09 100.95 101.85 105.21 100.27
2016-10 99.29 101.38 100.76 98.2
2016-11 103.12 102.58 108.91 102.05
2016-12 105.67 101.56 126.76 101.67
2017-01 102.25 101.19 105.91 101.34
2017-02 104.46 103.23 106.01 103.61
2017-03 109.17 103.49 133.85 104.67
2017-04 103.17 103.74 103.92 103.03
2017-05 106.29 104.92 112.91 105.97
2017-06 105.92 104.95 111.02 105.74
2017-07 106.44 104.78 113.25 105.94
2017-08 105.21 105.89 105.47 105.4
2017-09 107.51 105.8 115.92 105.77
2017-10 108.46 105.63 118.33 106.45
2017-11 109.4 105.73 119.38 107.74
2017-12 110.37 104.67 120.41 109.28
2018-01 109.28 104.7 119.33 107.77
2018-02 106.88 105.6 108.29 106.36
2018-03 109.65 106.19 122.2 107.19
2018-04 108.78 104.7 116.99 107.52
2018-05 106.46 106.55 99.7 107.58
2018-06 111.0 106.08 116.96 109.92
2018-07 108.33 105.09 112.1 107.13
2018-08 110.79 106.8 116.09 108.73
2018-09 109.47 105.16 113.75 107.51
2018-10 114.31 108.1 128.56 111.36
2018-11 110.74 107.0 116.9 109.36
2018-12 112.35 107.84 119.16 112.16
2019-01 112.2 108.08 120.59 110.14
2019-02 113.69 107.57 127.56 110.23
2019-03 113.81 105.3 132.53 110.42
2019-04 113.45 111.1 124.76 109.94
2019-05 113.72 109.49 125.77 110.85
2019-06 110.99 108.7 119.84 109.43
2019-07 112.85 109.69 127.61 109.11
2019-08 113.34 109.76 128.17 109.68
2019-09 112.68 109.35 126.31 110.11
2019-10 113.4 109.56 129.74 110.8
2019-11 111.95 109.89 124.38 109.24
2019-12 111.88 110.1 122.66 109.57
2020-01 111.71 110.81 121.26 109.35
2020-02 111.78 110.15 125.81 108.61
2020-03 93.28 105.9 90.81 90.7
2020-04 70.98 95.76 38.38 74.5
2020-05 82.55 97.2 55.99 88.03
2020-06 99.56 108.92 94.75 99.3
2020-07 98.94 110.58 87.39 100.33
2020-08 100.54 108.96 86.39 103.85
2020-09 102.47 109.35 97.31 104.73
2020-10 102.73 108.24 100.7 103.86
2020-11 102.77 107.72 93.9 106.34
2020-12 105.44 108.84 98.65 109.87
2021-01 108.69 108.86 113.98 110.23
2021-02 103.51 110.25 80.27 109.81
2021-03 112.21 114.12 116.25 111.64

Turnover in manufacturing industry

  • Sources: DGFiP, INSEE

Indexes of turnover in industry and construction

SA-WDA, based year 2015
Indexes of turnover in industry and construction (SA-WDA, based year 2015)
Change in %
Industries: Weight (1) Mar. 2021 Mar. 2021 / Feb. 2021 Feb. 2021 / Jan. 2020 Mar. 2021 / Feb. 2020 q-o-q (2) y-o-y (3)
BE: INDUSTRY 10000 116,1 6,1 -1,4 2,4 4,8 3,5
CZ: MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 8371 112,2 8,4 -4,8 0,4 4,3 2,4
of which Exports 2977 108,9 15,5 -14,1 -1,4 5,5 0,4
(C1): Man. of food products and beverages 1809 114,1 3,5 1,3 3,6 2,6 1,9
of which Exports 330 116,3 8,7 0,0 3,6 2,1 -1,8
(C2): Man. of coke and refined petroleum products 423 96,5 18,4 7,4 -10,3 21,3 -13,9
(C3): Machinery and equipment goods 944 111,9 2,5 0,2 2,8 3,5 6,9
of which Exports 491 107,1 1,7 0,6 4,2 5,6 6,9
[CI] Man. of computer, electronic and optical products 286 125,3 7,7 -1,0 8,4 7,7 3,2
[CJ] Man. of electrical equipment 225 107,6 1,0 0,7 1,2 3,5 10,3
[CK] Man. of machinery and equipment n.e.c. 433 105,3 -0,6 0,8 -0,4 0,5 8,2
(C4): Man. of transport equipment 1387 116,2 44,8 -29,6 -7,6 5,9 -8,1
of which Exports 738 108,0 72,1 -47,7 -11,6 7,2 -6,6
[CL1] Man. of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 648 100,7 -2,3 -3,9 -10,5 -3,6 5,7
[CL2] Man. of other transport equipment 739 129,9 115,7 -49,8 -5,5 15,9 -17,6
(C5): Other manufacturing 3808 111,6 1,7 -0,4 2,8 3,6 7,5
of which Exports 1367 109,0 3,7 -3,4 1,8 4,8 3,3
[CB] Man. of textiles, wearing apparel, leather and related products 188 108,5 2,4 0,1 1,1 -0,1 9,5
[CC] Man. of wood and paper products; printing and reproduction of recorded media 402 100,5 0,2 0,0 -0,1 -0,1 4,6
[CE] Man. of chemicals and chemical products 768 110,5 4,7 -0,9 6,2 3,4 6,7
[CF] Man. of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations 296 124,4 0,7 -10,4 2,7 8,5 4,1
[CG] Man. of rubber and plastics products, and other non-metallic mineral products 613 115,5 3,4 1,0 3,3 2,7 10,9
[CH] Man. of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment 867 107,7 1,1 0,8 1,7 6,3 9,0
[CM] Other manufacturing; repair and installation of machinery and equipment 673 116,4 -1,3 2,5 2,0 2,4 6,2
DE: Mining and quarrying; energy, water supply, sewerage, waste management 1629 136,0 -2,5 13,6 12,1 6,6 8,2
[BZ] Mining and quarrying 60 124,2 7,3 -2,4 3,3 1,1 15,6
[DZ] Electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply 1204 136,7 -4,9 16,5 10,1 6,9 6,0
[EZ] Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation 365 135,5 5,2 6,7 21,0 6,3 15,3
FZ: CONSTRUCTION 10000 132,7 1,2 7,2 12,1 2,1 8,7
  • (1) 10000=B...E et F
  • (2) Quarter-on-quarter: last three months / previous three months
  • (3) Year-on-year: last three months / same three months of previous year
  • The codes correspond to different levels of aggregation of the french aggregated classification of activites (NA 2008).
  • Sources: DGFiP, INSEE

Turnover in the manufacturing industry increased over one year (+2.4%)

With a base effect linked to the first lockdown in March 2020, the industry turnover over the last three months rose compared to that of the same three months of the previous year (+2.4% for the manufacturing industry, +3.5% for the whole industry). The rise was sharp in “other manufacturing” (+7.5%), in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply; waste management (+8.2%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (+6.9%). The growth was more moderate in the manufacture of food products and beverages (+1.9%). Over this same period, turnover was down sharply in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (−13.9%) and in the manufacture of transport equipment (−8.1%).

Revisions

The percentage change of the turnover index in February 2021 in the manufacturing industry has been revised upwards at −4.8% instead of −4.9%; it has been reestimated at −1.4% instead of −2.2% in industry as a whole, compared to the previous publication. This revision was mainly due to the inclusion of late responses.

Revision of variations

(in point %)
Revision of variations ((in point %))
Feb. / Jan. Jan. / Dec. Dec. / Nov. Q4 2020/ Q3 2020 2020/ 2019
Industry (BE) 0,77 -0,23 0,31 0,11 0,02
raw serie 0,86 -0,18 0,29 -0,02 0,01
SA-WDA parameters -0,09 -0,05 0,02 0,13 0,01
Manufacturing industry (CZ) 0,10 -0,21 0,37 0,07 0,02
raw serie 0,12 -0,21 0,35 -0,02 0,01
SA-WDA parameters -0,02 0,00 0,02 0,09 0,01
  • How to read it: in the manufacturing, the SA-WDA variation between January 2021 and February 2021 is revised by +0.10 points: +0.12 points are due to the raw series revision and -0.02 points to the new calculation of the SA-WDA parameters.
  • Sources: DGFiP, INSEE

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