Archive:Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers statistics - NACE Rev. 2
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This article presents an overview of statistics for the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector in the European Union (EU), as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 29.
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(% share of sectoral total) - Source: Eurostat (sbs_na_ind_r2)
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Main statistical findings
Structural profile
The motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector (Division 29) in the EU-27 comprised 20 thousand enterprises in 2009, just 0.1 % of the total for the whole of the non-financial business economy (Sections B to J and L to N and Division 95). There were 2.2 million persons employed in the EU-27’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector and together they generated EUR 99 000 million of value added in 2009 – these figures represented 1.7 % of the non-financial business economy workforce and 1.8 % of total value added in the non-financial business economy. In employment and value added terms, the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector was the fourth largest NACE division within manufacturing (Section C) in the EU-27, contributing 7.1 % of manufacturing value added and 7.2 % of employment in 2009.
In 2009, the EU-27's motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector was one of only two manufacturing NACE divisions (the other was the repair and installation of machinery and equipment, Division 33) to record apparent labour productivity below the manufacturing average accompanied by average personnel costs above the manufacturing average. Apparent labour productivity in the EU-27’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector was EUR 45 thousand per person employed, slightly below the manufacturing average (EUR 46 thousand) but above the non-financial business economy average (EUR 41.6 thousand). Average personnel costs were particularly high at EUR 41.8 thousand per employee in motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing compared with an average of EUR 30.0 thousand per employee for the whole of the non-financial business economy and EUR 34.5 thousand per employee for manufacturing.
The combination of high average personnel costs and apparent labour productivity close to the manufacturing average in 2009 resulted in a particularly low wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio, some 106.9 % for the EU-27's motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector. This was the second lowest ratio among the manufacturing NACE divisions in 2009, higher only than that recorded for the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector (104.2 %) and the seventh lowest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio among all non-financial business economy NACE divisions.
Equally, the gross operating rate (the relation between the gross operating surplus and turnover) for the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector was also very low. The gross operating rate is a measure of operating profitability, and stood at 1.2 % for the EU-27’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector in 2009, the lowest rate among manufacturing NACE divisions and the third lowest rate among all NACE divisions within the non-financial business economy.
Sectoral analysis
The EU-27’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector is dominated by two large subsectors, namely motor vehicle manufacturing (Group 29.1) and motor vehicle parts and accessories manufacturing (Group 29.3), which together contributed more than nine tenths of the sector’s employment and value added in 2009. The third subsector, the manufacture of motor vehicle bodies, trailers and semi-trailers (Group 29.2) employed 7.7 % of the sector’s workforce and contributed 6.4 % of its value added.
As can be seen from Figure 1, the contribution of the two largest subsectors to the EU-27’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing total varied greatly depending on the indicator used for analysis; this diversity impacted on the derived indicators concerning productivity, as shown in Table 2b. The high share of sectoral value added in the motor vehicles manufacturing subsector was reflected in apparent labour productivity that, at EUR 55 thousand of value added per person employed, was well above the manufacturing average (EUR 46 thousand). The two other subsectors recorded apparent labour productivity ratios not only below the manufacturing average but also below the non-financial business economy average (EUR 41.6 thousand per person employed). A slightly different situation could be observed for average personnel costs: again the motor vehicles manufacturing subsector recorded the highest level, but the two other subsectors also recorded average personnel costs that were above the non-financial business economy average.
Despite the relatively high apparent labour productivity recorded for the EU-27’s motor vehicles manufacturing subsector the extremely high average personnel costs in this subsector resulted in a wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio of 101.4 % – in other words, apparent labour productivity per person employed was just 1.4 % higher than average personnel costs per employee. As such, this sector recorded the second lowest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio within the EU-27 for manufacturing NACE groups in 2009, and the tenth lowest among the 182 non-financial business economy NACE groups for which data are available. While the motor vehicles manufacturing subsector had the lowest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio within the EU-27’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector, neither of the two other subsectors achieved a wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio that surpassed the manufacturing or non-financial business economy averages. The wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio for vehicle parts and accessories manufacturing was 116.7 % in 2009. For the manufacture of motor vehicle bodies, trailers and semi-trailers the wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio was 135.0 % in 2008, which can be compared with the 2008 manufacturing average of 145.3 %; although a precise value is not available, the wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio for this subsector in 2009 was around 20 percentage points below the manufacturing average (132.1 %).
The EU-27’s vehicle parts and accessories manufacturing subsector and the manufacture of motor vehicle bodies, trailers and semi-trailers subsector recorded gross operating rates of 3.5 % and 3.2 % respectively in 2009. These rates were around half the average gross operating rate recorded across the whole of manufacturing (7.0 %), but well above the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector’s average of 1.2 %. For the motor vehicles manufacturing subsector, the EU-27 gross operating rate in 2008 was 3.6 % compared with a manufacturing average of 8.3 %; for this subsector a precise gross operating rate in 2009 is not available but it is likely that this was close to zero as the gross operating surplus was very small as personnel costs accounted for 98.1 % of value added.
Country analysis
The German share of EU-27 value added recorded in the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector was the highest share for Germany in any of the non-financial business economy NACE divisions (with data available) in 2009: German value added was EUR 46 639 million, equivalent to 44.1 % of the EU-27 total. Within the motor vehicles manufacturing subsector German value added was more than half (51.1 %) of the EU-27 total. In the two remaining subsectors, Germany also had the highest share of value added, with more than one quarter (26.6 %) of the EU-27 total for the manufacture of motor vehicle bodies, trailers and semi-trailers and more than one third (35.8 %) of the EU-27 total for vehicle parts and accessories manufacturing.
In relative terms, the Member States most specialised in the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector were the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as this sector contributed 5.2 % of non-financial business economy value added, closely followed by Hungary (5.0 %). Further behind this group of central European Member States was Germany where the next highest specialisation ratio was recorded (as the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector contributed 3.5 % of German non-financial business economy value added), followed by Romania (2.8 %), Poland (2.5 %) and Slovenia (2.4 %). In all the remaining Member States (no data available for Greece, Luxembourg or Malta), the contribution of the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector to non-financial business economy value added was less than the 1.8 % average for the EU-27; the least specialised Member States in 2009 were Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and Ireland where the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector’s share of non-financial business economy value added was 0.2 % or less.
The low wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio recorded for the EU-27 as a whole in the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector reflected the very low ratios recorded in several Member States. Germany, the largest Member State in this sector in the EU-27, recorded a wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio below 100 % in 2009, indicating that average personnel costs per employee were higher than value added per person employed; this situation was also observed in Lithuania and Sweden. In contrast, Poland and Hungary recorded wage-adjusted labour productivity ratios in excess of 200 %; these were well above their national non-financial business economy averages. Wage-adjusted labour productivity ratios above national non-financial business economy averages were also recorded for the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia.
The same Member States that reported wage-adjusted labour productivity ratios below 100 % in the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector also reported negative gross operating rates in 2009, ranging from -1.1 % in Germany to -5.7 % in Sweden. Hungary and Cyprus were the only Member States to report a gross operating rate for the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector that was above their national non-financial business economy average.
Data sources and availability
The analysis presented in this article is based on the main dataset for structural business statistics (SBS) which are disseminated annually. The series provides information for each Member State as well as a number of non-member countries at a detailed level according to the activity classification NACE. Data are available for a wide range of variables.
Context
This article presents an overview of statistics for the motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers manufacturing sector in the EU, as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 29. This division includes the manufacture of motor vehicles for transporting passengers or freight, the manufacture of trailers and semi-trailers, and the manufacture of various parts and accessories.
Motor vehicles include passenger cars, commercial vehicles (vans, lorries and over-the-road tractors for semi-trailers), coaches, buses, trolley-buses, snowmobiles, golf carts, amphibious vehicles, fire engines, street sweepers, travelling libraries, armoured cars, concrete-mixer lorries, ATVs, go-carts and race cars. Also included are motor vehicle engines (other than electric ones) and chassis.
This NACE division is composed of three groups:
- the manufacture of motor vehicles (Group 29.1);
- the manufacture of bodies (coachwork) for motor vehicles; manufacture of trailers and semitrailers (Group 29.2);
- the manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories (Group 29.3).
Excluded from the statistics that are presented in this article are specialist agricultural or industrial machinery (such as agricultural tractors or off-road dumping trucks) which are classified to machinery and equipment (Division 28) and tanks and other military fighting vehicles (Division 30, manufacture of other transport equipment). The maintenance and repair of vehicles produced in this activity are classified to motor trades (Division 45).
Further Eurostat information
Publications
Main tables
Database
- SBS - industry and construction (sbs_ind_co)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics for industry (NACE Rev.2 B-E) (sbs_na_ind_r2)
- Preliminary results on industry and construction, main indicators (NACE Rev.2) (sbs_na_r2preli)
- SMEs - Annual enterprise statistics broken down by size classes - industry and construction (sbs_sc_ind)
- Industry broken down by employment size classes (NACE Rev.2 B-E) (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- SBS - regional data - all activities (sbs_r)
- SBS data by NUTS 2 regions and NACE Rev.2, from 2008 onwards (sbs_r_nuts06_r2)
Dedicated section
Source data for tables, figures and maps (MS Excel)
Other information
- Regulation 58/1997 of 20 December 1996 concerning structural business statistics
- Decision 2367/2002/EC of 16 December 2002 on the Community statistical programme 2003 to 2007
- Regulation 295/2008 of 11 March 2008 concerning structural business statistics
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