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 Gross fixed capital formation indicator in transport equipment - calendar and seasonally adjusted (Year-on-year change rate - Base 2021 - %)
Characteristic Description
Name Gross fixed capital formation indicator in transport equipment - calendar and seasonally adjusted (Year-on-year change rate - Base 2021 - %); Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Monthly economic survey
First available period January 1996
Last available period February 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Geographic location (Portugal)
Concepts
  • GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION:  Macro economic indicator that consists of resident producers¿ acquisitions, less disposals, of fixed assets during a given period plus certain additions to the value of non-produced assets realised by the productive activity of producer or institutional units. Fixed assets are produced assets used in production for more than one year.
  • 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).
Definition The Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) Indicator in transport equipment is a volume series estimated from sales of heavy, light commercial and passenger vehicles to rent-a-car companies (Source: ACAP and ARAC) and of imports of other transport equipment, using as reference the volume series of the corresponding aggregate of the Quarterly National Accounts (Base 2021). Values are seasonally adjusted.
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 21/04/2025


information presented in 7/5/2025