Instituto Nacional de Estadística
The Industrial Production Index, adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects, recorded a variation rate of -0.6% in January, as compared to the same month of the previous year. This rate is 0.8 points higher than that registered in December.
The original IPI series experienced an annual variation of 3.6%. This rate is 8.5 points higher than that of December.
Annual rate. Percentage
By sectors, and in indexes adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects, Capital goods (3.6%) presented the highest annual rate. Meanwhile, Durable consumer goods (-9.1%) recorded the lowest rate.
The monthly variation of the Industrial Production Index (IPI) between the months of January and December, eliminating seasonal and calendar effects, was 0.4%. This rate is 1.0 points higher than that registered in December.
Adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects. Monthly rate. Percentage
By sectors, Capital goods (1.8%) presented the most positive monthly rate. Meanwhile, Durable consumer goods (-1.6%) recorded the lowest rate.
The annual variation rates of industrial production increased as compared to Janaury 2023 in 12 Autonomous Communities and decreased in the other five.
Annual rate. Percentage
Today, INE has updated IPI data from all periods since the beginning of the index. All results of this operation are available on INEBase.
The National Statistics Institute (INE) published the first Industrial Production Index (IPI) in Base 2021 today. In this way, Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and modalities pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics is complied with.
The base change consists of reviewing and updating the main components that make up the calculation of the index. To do this, the sample of reporting establishments is analysed and completed, the weights are updated using the structural data of the industry in the base year and the basket of products representative of the different industrial activities is reviewed.
The objective is to achieve an indicator adapted to the changes produced in the last six years in the different activities of the industrial sector, so that it measures the evolution of this sector precisely.
In the new base, divisions 05: Extraction of anthracite, coal and lignite and 06: Extraction of crude oil and gas have been eliminated due to the sharp drop in these industrial activities in recent years.
One of the most important aspects in the base change process is the sample update. For this, the products in the basket that represent the industrial activities and the establishments that manufacture them are taken into account.
The sample is selected by the cut-off method, ordering the establishments according to the value of their production for the products in the index basket by Autonomous Community, trying to reach at least 90% of the value of the production of said products in the base year.
As a result of this sample update, approximately 11,500 industrial establishments are surveyed each month in the 2021 base IPI.
These industrial establishments report each month on the quantities and values produced in the corresponding month of the products that are part of the indicator basket and that are processed in said establishment.
The complete structure of weights has been updated at all levels of disaggregation, functional and geographical, to represent current and accurate industrial activity.
For this, the Structural Business Statistics has been used: Industrial Sector of the year 2021 has been used, which provides information on the added value by branch of activity and autonomous community; and the Annual Industrial Product Survey (EIAP) for the weightings of the products in the index basket, based on their production value in the base year 2021.
The following table shows the weight of each industry by economic uso of the goods in the 2021 base, and their comparison with those of the previous base.
The implementation of the entire new structure represents a break in the continuity of the series, especially when there is also a change in the scope of the index, as occurs in the base 2021 IPI.
In order to have complete series that allow calculating rates of variation between different periods, and to carry out studies and predictions about the evolution of industrial activity, the INE has linked the series and published the indices on a 2021 basis, since January 1975, in order to give continuity to the information published so far.
The indexes prior to 2021 have been linked by multiplying each series by its linking coefficient, thus preserving the rates of variation.
Since January 2021, the series have been recalculated on the new base, using the entire new structure. Therefore, the variation rates of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 of the base 2021 IPI will be different from those calculated using the indices in base 2015.
The IPI base 2021 maintains the detail by activities and by economic destination of the goods that was published in the previous base 2015.
The main results corrected for calendar effects and corrected for seasonal and calendar effects continue to be published.
All information on the new IPI base is available on the INE website.
The Industrial Production Index (IPI) is a short-term indicator that measures the monthly evolution of the productive activity of the industrial branches, excluding construction, contained in the National Classification of Economic Activities 2009 (CNAE-2009). It therefore investigates the activities included in sections B, C, D and division 36: Water collection, treatment and supply, from section E of the CNAE-2009.
The IPI measures the joint evolution of quantity and quality, eliminating the influence of prices.
More information is available in the methodology and in the standardised methodological report.
INE statistics are produced in accordance with the Code of Good Practice for European Statistics. More information in Quality at INE and the Code of Best Practices.
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