Short-term Industrial Indicators: Q1/2026
- When compared to the first quarter of 2025, working-day adjusted industrial turnover increased by 4.5 per cent.
- The highest increase was recorded in intermediate goods (12.1 per cent).
- When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2025, industrial employment, hours worked, and gross wages and salaries went up by 0.3 per cent, 0.7 per cent and 6.3 per cent, respectively.
- Seasonally adjusted industrial turnover went up by 1.7 per cent, with the highest increase occurring in energy (1.8 per cent) when compared to the fourth quarter of 2025.
Short-term Industrial Indicators: Q1/2026
Short-term Industrial Indicators: Q1/2026
During the first quarter of 2026, seasonally adjusted industrial turnover went up by 1.7 per cent when compared to the fourth quarter of 2025. Increases were registered in energy (1.8 per cent), intermediate goods (1.6 per cent) and capital goods (0.5 per cent). On the other hand, consumer goods went down by 4.1 per cent (Table 1).
When compared to the last quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial employment (Table 3), hours worked (Table 5), and gross wages and salaries (Table 7) decreased by 0.6 per cent, 0.3 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively.
Annual comparison
When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2025, working-day adjusted industrial turnover increased by 4.5 per cent. The highest increase was registered in intermediate goods (12.1 per cent), followed by energy (7.4 per cent) and capital goods (2.2 per cent). On the contrary, consumer goods went down by 2.4 per cent (Table 2).
An increase of 0.3 per cent was recorded in the year-on-year unadjusted industrial employment (Table 4). Working-day adjusted industrial hours worked (Table 6) and gross wages and salaries (Table 8) went up by 0.7 per cent and 6.3 per cent, respectively.
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Methodological Notes
1. This news release comprises a number of business cycle indicators showing the quarterly evolution of the market of goods and services in the industrial sector. It records the evolution of turnover, employment, wages and salaries, and hours worked over long periods of time. The objective of these indicators is to measure the market activity in the industrial sector. These indicators are compiled as a “five-year chain-linked index”. The current base and reference years are 2021. The results are compiled and published according to the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, NACE Rev. 2.
2. The data is collected by means of a monthly questionnaire which is sent to a representative sample of business units categorised within the industrial sector. The data is then grossed up to represent the entire industrial population.
3. For the scope of the index calculation, NACE divisions 09, 12, 15, 19, 24 and NACE groups 27.5 and 30.9 are excluded because of their negligible activity.
| Main Industrial Groupings | Turnover | Employment | Gross wages and salaries |
Hours worked |
| Intermediate goods | 31.8 | 30.2 | 32.1 | 29.6 |
| Energy | 21.3 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 7.7 |
| Capital goods | 16.6 | 23.2 | 23.5 | 24.5 |
| Consumer goods | 30.3 | 40.8 | 39.2 | 38.2 |
| Durable consumer goods | 1.9 | 5.8 | 4.4 | 2.8 |
| Non-durable consumer goods | 28.4 | 35.0 | 34.8 | 35.4 |
| Total industry | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
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