Archive:Publishing statistics - NACE Rev. 1.1
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This article belongs to a set of statistical articles which analyse the structure, development and characteristics of the various economic activities in the European Union (EU). According to the statistical classification of economic activities in the EU (NACE Rev 1.1), the present article covers publishing statistics, corresponding to NACE Group 22.1, which is part of the media and communications sector. The activities covered in this article are the producing and issuing of informative material, including the publishing of both:
- printed matter;
- music.
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Main statistical findings
Structural profile
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Value added generated by the 81.0 thousand enterprises that make up the EU-27’s publishing sector (NACE Group 22.1) reached EUR 49 billion in 2006, derived from turnover of EUR 130 billion. This was equivalent to 14.0 % of the media and communications (NACE Divisions 22 and 64) value added, and 16.4 % of its turnover. There were approximately 800.0 thousand persons employed in these activities in the EU-27, which represented 16.5 % of the media and communications workforce. Within the publishing subsector the largest contribution to value added in the EU-27 in 2006 was from the publishing of newspapers (NACE Class 22.12), followed by the publishing of journals and periodicals (NACE Class 22.13) and the publishing of books (NACE Class 22.11). Slightly more than one quarter of the EU-27’s value added in the publishing sector in 2006 was concentrated in the United Kingdom while one fifth came from Germany. Unsurprisingly, the United Kingdom ranked as one of the most specialised Member States within the publishing sector in value added terms, as this activity generated 1.2 % of its non-financial business economy value added, lower only than in Finland.
Expenditure and productivity
The investment rate in publishing was particularly low, just 5.5 % in the EU-27, one of the lowest of all non-financial business economy NACE groups in 2006. Apparent labour productivity for the EU-27’s publishing sector was below the media and communications average in 2006, while average personnel costs were above average. This situation led to a wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio (158.1 %) for the publishing sector that was well below the media and communications average (195.0 %), but nevertheless still above the average ratio for the non-financial business economy.
Data sources and availability
The main part of the analysis in this article is derived from structural business statistics (SBS), including core, business statistics which are disseminated regularly, as well as information compiled on a multi-yearly basis, and the latest results from development projects.
Context
This sector gathers together several activities linked to media and communication activities, however, within this group a distinction has to be made between traditional activities (for example, postal services) for which the level of activity is rather stable and other newer activities (such as mobile telephony and electronic publishing), for which growth developments are more marked.
While the Internet was initially seen by many as a direct competitor to printed matter, enterprises that traditionally published printed media have often diversified into online media too, for example, newspapers, magazines, books or reference material are increasingly consulted online or through some other type of electronic medium. Note that on-line publishing, not in connection with other publishing, is considered as a computer and related activity rather than publishing.
Further Eurostat information
Publications
- European Business: Facts and figures - 2009 edition