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Production in services (sts_os_p)

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The index of services production (volume) measures changes in the value of revenues from sale of products, goods and materials in monthly periods with reference to the base period.
The index belongs to short term business statistics indicators, which describes the current economic situation and is used as a basis for economic policy decisions.

The index of services production (ISP) is a business indicator which measures the monthly changes of the price adjusted output of the services industries (excluding financial and public services).

10 June 2025

The index of services production is calculated on the basis of net turnover.

Net Turnover is defined as the value of sold production, sales of merchanted goods (resale) and services supplied.
It includes:

  • Net revenues from sale of products within the country and for export which have been manufactured or services supplied by the entity (goods, semi-finished goods and services) as well as packaging, equipment and external services if they are invoiced together with the purchased products;
  • Revenues from sale of goods and materials, i.e. current assets purchased for resale in a non-processed condition and products manufactured by the entity if they are sold by shops within the company's network along with goods manufactured by other producers.

The following are excluded:

  • VAT invoiced to the client by the producer;
  • Taxes which fall on the products and services when they leave the factory (for example excise tax),

The monthly report on economic activity (concerning legal units employing 10 or more persons) covers among other variables the following information:

  • Turnover from sale of products (own goods and services);
  • Turnover from sale of goods and materials;

Data refers to flows during the calendar month.

To deflate of the net turnover the Constant prices indices are used. They are used to establish changes in physical size of aggregated economic notions (production, sales, consumption) in terms of value. Constant prices enable to exclude the impact of changes in current prices on indices of surveyed categories and ensure comparability with changes in their physical size over different periods.

The Consumer Price Indices (CPI) are used for groups of divisions I55, I56,

The House Price Index (HPI) and the Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) are used in Section  L which is equivalent to L68.

The Services Producer Price Indices (SPPI) are used for the rest of divisions for which ISP is compiled.


Definition of the index of services production (ISP) is compliant with Eurostat recommendations, methodological manual and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2020/1197.

The reporting units (responsible for replying to the survey questionnaire) are legal units, whereas observation units are kind-of-activity units.

The target population includes kind of activity units with 10 or more persons employed classified to the following Sections and Divisions of NACE: H, I, J, L, M (excluding M701, M72 and, M75) and N.

The basis for identifying KAUs is the set of enterprises consisting of one or more legal units. The Statistical Business Register (BJS) supported by the National Official Business Register (REGON) is the frame for identifying units for the target population. In 2024 statistical population for kind-of-activity units noted 32 875 units with 10 or more persons employed out of which:

  • 5 257 KAUs with 50 or more persons employed
  • 27 618 KAUs with 10–49 persons employed.

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There were negligible non-sampling errors concerning coverage, measurement and non-response.
Improvement actions taken include increasing registry updates, careful logical and accounting controls and constant contact with the reporting units.

Index

Data concerning units employing 10 or more persons are estimated for non-response based on the units' responses for previous periods. This is done for units which submitted at least one questionnaire throughout the year. For units which have also not submitted a questionnaire throughout the year the results for the responses are grossed up to the population taking into account employment and labour productivity.

The survey results are produced by grossing-up the data from the sample to the population. The grossed up results are used only to compile indices at the level of the NACE Rev. 2 aggregates required in the EBS Regulation.

The indexes are calculated based on grossed up results. The index for a new reference period is calculated as a relation of its value to the average value of the base year.

The base weights for units employing 10–49 persons are calculated taking into account the employment and labour productivity.

The statistical survey based on the frame derived from Statistical Business Register (BJS) is used as a data source. Data are collected for legal units, however in the further process they are recalculated into kind of activity units.

For legal units employing 50 or more persons the survey is exhaustive. A 10% sample is used for units employing 10-49 persons.
The sample of legal units employing 10-49 persons is selected at the NUTS 2 level and according to the NACE Rev. 2 aggregates required in the EBS Regulation.

Legal units employing:

  • 50 or more persons – a census is conducted (in 2024, 5441 units were covered with the survey, out of which, 4599 units submitted report i.e. 84.5 %),
  • 10-49 persons employed – a minimum 10% sample is selected (in 2024, out of 3668 units from this group, 2182 submitted report, i.e. 59.5%).

The samples is updated once a year.

The frame on which the source is based is the Statistical Business Register (BJS) supported by the National Official Business Register (REGON).

Data reported by legal units for national purposes are compiled by LEU, however each legal unit covered by the survey has identified KAU’s NACE code which is the basis for compiling data by KAU.

Monthly

Monthly data is released within 2 months after the end of the reference month. The index is transmitted to Eurostat according to Release Calendar.

The same statistical concepts and classifications are applied in the entire national territory.
Polish Classification of Activities (PKD 2007) is consistent with European Classification of Economic Activities (NACE Rev.2).
Classification of territorial division applied in Polish statistics is consistent with the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS).

Data on the index of services production are comparable over time.  The fact it is a new variable for this reason changes are made only when replacing the deflation indices from the preliminary data to the final data.

Time series according to NACE Rev. 2 are available from 2000 onwards. Since 2021 data are compiled by KAU.