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 Economic activity indicator (Series 1991-1997 - Year-on-year rate of change - %)
Characteristic Description
Name Economic activity indicator (Series 1991-1997 - Year-on-year rate of change - %); Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Short-term economic statistics
First available period January 1991
Last available period February 2017
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
  • ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations Economic Activity Indicator is a synthetic indicator of several quantitative series in volume: manufacturing industry production index (trading days adjusted), production index of intermediate goods (trading day adjusted), overnight stays in hotels, retail trade sales index, electricity consumption (adjusted for temperature), sales of fuels (petrol and diesel), sales of passenger vehicles, balance of the opinions on the internal demand for the manufacturing industry, cement sales for the domestic market, sales of commercial vehicles, production index of investment goods, balance of opinions about current activity and expectations on the development of order books for the next three months for the wholesale investment goods sector, applications for employment by unemployed persons along the month (state employment agencies), vacancies along the month (state employment agencies), hirings along the month (state employment agencies), economic sentiment indicator for the Euro Area, balance of assessment of order-book levels for the industry sector in the European Union, consumer confidence index for the Euro Area, industrial production index for Portugal's main trading partners. The estimated series is subject to a fixed interval smoothing process and calibrated using GDP (volume) year-on-year change rate.
Last update date 20/04/2017


information presented in 6/5/2025