Business tendency survey for manufacturing, mining and quarrying, Q1 2013

Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying. Tendencies. Diffusion index. Smoothed seasonally adjusted¹²
	1st quarter 2012	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012	4th quarter 2012	1st quarter 2013
¹A diffusion index is compiled using the estimated percentages on "ups" and "same" according to the formula: (ups + 0,5 * same) after adjustments for non-response.
²The diffusion index has a turning point at 50. A common way of interpreting an index value of 50 is to say that half the respondents has had an increase while the other a fall. An increasing index at or above 50 indicates that the growthrate is increasing, while a falling index above 50 indicates a falling rate of growth. Opposite for an index below 50.
Changes from previous quarter
Total volume of production	52.8	52.1	51.7	51.1	50.2
Average capacity utilisation	52.2	51.7	51.0	50.6	50.1
Average employment	53.8	54.0	53.8	52.7	51.7
New orders received from home markets	53.8	51.7	50.1	50.2	49.8
New orders received from export markets	48.7	48.1	46.2	45.5	45.3
Total stock of orders	53.2	51.7	49.3	48.3	47.7
Prices on products at home markets	52.1	51.6	52.0	52.1	51.2
Prices on products at export markets	45.7	45.8	45.5	45.2	45.3

Expected changes in next quarter
Total volume of production	58.6	58.4	57.8	57.7	57.6
Average capacity utilisation	56.6	57.1	56.9	56.5	56.7
Average employment	52.7	52.3	51.5	50.8	49.8
New orders received from home markets	58.3	57.8	56.4	55.0	54.9
New orders received from export markets	53.1	53.5	53.6	53.1	52.1
Total stock of orders	57.5	56.5	54.9	54.4	55.2
Prices on products at home markets	55.7	54.6	54.7	55.2	54.8
Prices on products at export markets	48.3	48.9	49.8	50.5	50.6

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