1. PRODCOM-Statistics in Austria
Tanja Wlaschinsky
Nina Waltner
Directorate Business Statistics
Industry and Construction
Vienna
15 October 2013
Industry and Construction

2. General information - (OE)PRODCOM
Commodity classifications: cover national codes – derived from either PRODCOM or CPA codes
APS: precisely articulated + published monthly/quarterly/yearly
Since 1970 APS are integrated in overall concept of STS
statistical survey cover/analyse activities of economic branches (OENACE 2008 (NACE Rev.2) –sections B to F –divisions 05 to 43)
“Industry and construction” - economic branches:
Mining and quarrying (Section B of OENACE 2008)
Manufacturing (Section C of OENACE 2008)
Electricity, gas, stream and air conditioning supply (Section D of OENACE 2008)
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (Section E of OENACE 2008) and
Construction (Section of OENACE 2008).

3. Survey population
Survey covers enterprises in NACE Rev. 2 sections B to F that surpass following thresholds:
Employment: 20 and more persons (valid for sub units)
Turnover: 1 million EUR and more
Units selected must represent 90% of national production per OENACE class
Activity units:
Single activity – LKAU (established) enterprises
All sub units  same main activity reporting 1 questionnaire
Multi activity – LKAU (established) enterprises
reporting 1 to x questionnaires due to different activities

4. Harmonised and comparable indicators
Single activity enterprises 
dependencies
Employment statistics
Volume of work statistics
Labour costs statistics
Volume of order statistics
Turnover statistics
Production statistics
STS survey (provisional year results 2012)
figueres
rate
Enterprises
12 681
+ 3.4% against previous year
Employment
total
employees
+ 1.3%
+ 1.4%
Earnings employees
EUR bn
+ 4.9%
Turnover
EUR bn
+ 5.3%
Domestic turnover
EUR bn
51% of total turnover

5. The Austrian PRODCOM-List
is based on the headings of the latest PRODCOM list, extended with two extra digits because of their importance to national market analyses. The national codifications consists of 10 digits.
The product list is enlarged by further product headings for the (OE)NACE section E and especially section 43, as well as for commodities representing mostly secondary activities.
Headings which cannot be based on valid PRODCOM 8 digits must fit into valid hierarchical levels of CPA 2008 (repairs, establishing, …)
Commodity list 1 => all products + services of divisions 05 – 43
Commodity list 2 => product related services ( )
Respondents need at least total production and production sold data – by quantity (wherever useful) for all physical products as well as valued for all headings.

6. Types of production and product valuation
Own production (intended for sale)
Deliveries and performances within the enterprise
Contract processing carried out by the observation unit as a sub contractor
Production/performances sold
Contract processing carried out by another enterprise (reported by the principal)
For EC-reporting purposes the following reporting types are calculated:
total technical production cover all own-produced goods and performances as well as contract processing carried out by the observation unit as a sub-contractor
total production = own production + contract processing carried out by another enterprise

7. Data Collection and Validation
Periodicity = monthly; deadline is the 15th of the following month
We use a Business Register from which we extract names and addresses of the companies included in the STS-Statistics
Observation unit of PROCOM = local kind of activity unit (LKAU)
Questionaires:
Electronic Questionnaires:
Web-Questionnaires ( – 87%
E-Quest: is a Windows-application implemented in Visual Basic which is in use since 2001 and especially addressed to medium and large enterprises - 7%
Mailed Paper-Questionnaires – about 6%
Response-Rate: 98 %

8. Coverage
STS survey covers all enterprises and their LKAUs within ÖNACE Dev. B-F with 20 and more employees and a total turnover of 1 Million Euro and more
This cut-off allows us to minimize response burden while we reach at least 90% of national production per OENACE 2008 (NACE Rev. 2)-class
Units which are below the response burden are estimated (still in an evaluation stadium): For this purpose we use administrative turnover- and employment data, historical information and trends of other enterprises manufacturing same products.

9. Coverage

10. Thank you for your attention!
Please address queries to:
Tanja Wlaschinsky or
Nina Waltner