Orders for industry increased in June and showed a positive development of 2.2 percent compared to May in seasonally adjusted figures. When comparing June of this year to June of 2013 orders decreased by 0.5 percent in calendar adjusted figures.
Among the industry sub-sectors, the electrical equipment industry showed the largest increase while the industry for other transport equipment showed the largest decrease. During the last three month period of April-June, orders decreased by 0.6 percent compared to the previous three month period of January-March, in seasonally adjusted figures.
The monthly developments on both the domestic and export markets were positive, with increases of 3.1 and 1.5 percent respectively. The three month comparisons showed increased orders on the domestic market by 2.5 percent, while the export market decreased by 2.7 percent.
On an annual basis total orders decreased by 0.5 percent in June compared to June of last year, in calendar adjusted figures. The domestic market increased by 3.3 percent, while the export market decreased by 3.0 percent.
The figures for June are preliminary. Since the previous publication the change in orders in May compared to April has been revised downwards by 0.1 percentage points to a decrease of 2.3 percent. The change in orders for May of 2014 compared to the same month of the previous year has been revised upwards by 0.5 percentage points to a decrease of 0.9 percent.
