Showing posts with label purchases. Show all posts
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Friday, 24 June 2011

API For April 2011

The agricultural prices index for April published by Defra for prices received by producers for agricultural products for the total of all products in the monthly series in April 2011 was 166.4. To put this index number into some kind of context the index number highest since January 2010 was in March 2011 (last month) at 167.3 and the lowest was in April 2010 with 139.1. The index for purchase prices paid by producers for agricultural inputs in the monthly series for April 2011 was 148.7. The highest index since January 2010 was in January 2011 at 150.0 and January and March were lowest at 130.7.

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Annual Business Survey 2009

Provisional results for the annual business inquiry now called the annual business survey show decreases in all four main industry groups: production, construction, distribution and services in turnover, purchases and gross value added (GVA) at basic prices. Agriculture also reported decreases in turnover, purchases and GVA at basic prices.

Production decreased 8.1% in turnover, 8.9% in purchases and 10.2% in GVA. Within the production group mining and quarrying fell by 24.6% in turnover and 37.5% in GVA. Production did report some increases most notably in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning with 8.4% in turnover and 32.1% in GVA. Manufacturing reported decreases of 9.1% in turnover, 10.9% in purchases and 11.2% in GVA. The construction industries reported the largest percentage falls with -13.7% in turnover, -15.1% in purchases and -20.3% in GVA.

Distribution reported the largest decreases in money terms with a decrease of £60bn in turnover (-4.9%), £58bn (-5.5%) in purchases and £17bn (-4.6%) in GVA. While the financial differences were the largest the percentage changes were not. Only services had a smaller percentage change. The only increases in the distribution industries was in retail (except motor vehicles and motorcycles) increasing turnover by 0.3% and GVA by 1.8%.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

First Annual Business Enquiry Using SIC 2007

The ONS published their first set of provisional results for the Annual Business Enquiry under the new Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007. The differences between the SIC 2003 and SIC 2007 make it difficult to compare the 2008 figures with previous years. Results for the four main industry groups - production, construction, distribution and services, were given in terms of turnover, purchases and Gross Value Added (GVA).

The production industries provisionally look to have an 8.7% change in turnover, 10.3% in purchases and an approximate 6.6% increase in GVA between 2007 and 2008. Construction has also increased its results. Its turnover has gone up by 8.4%, its purchases by 6% and approximate GVA by 11.6%. The distribution industries' turnover went up by 16.9%, purchases by 19.8% giving an overall decrease in GVA of -1%. Services' turnover increased by 8.3%, purchases by 10.6% and approximate GVA of 5.5%.

The mining industries contributed largely to production figures as did electricity and gas adding 30.3 and 21.4 respectively in turnover. Wholesale trade made a large contribution to the distribution figures. The only decreases in the service industries were arts, entertainment and recreation and administrative and support services with -24.3 and -5.1 respectively.