Archive:Repair and installation of machinery and equipment statistics - NACE Rev. 2
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This article presents an overview of statistics for the repair and installation of machinery and equipment in the European Union (EU), as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 33. Most manufacturing activities involve the production of a good or industrial service that transforms intermediate goods; by contrast, the repair and installation activities covered in this article are industrial services that generally relate to new or used capital goods.
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Main statistical findings
Structural profile
The EU-27‘s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector (Division 33) was composed of 168.9 thousand enterprises in 2010. These enterprises employed 1.2 million persons and generated EUR 53.4 billion of value added, equivalent to 0.9 % of the non-financial business economy (Sections B to J and L to N and Division 95) total for both indicators. The repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector contributed 4.0 % of the manufacturing (Section C) workforce and 3.4 % of manufacturing value added.
The apparent labour productivity of the EU-27’s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in 2010 was EUR 44.5 thousand per person employed, just below the non-financial business economy average (EUR 44.8 thousand per person employed) and EUR 8.3 thousand per person employed less than the manufacturing average (EUR 52.8 thousand per person employed). Despite relatively low apparent labour productivity, average personnel costs within the EU-27’s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector were quite high, at EUR 37.5 thousand per employee in 2010. Average personnel costs in the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector were one third higher than the non-financial business economy average (EUR 30.9 thousand per employee) and also well above the EUR 35.8 thousand per employee average for manufacturing.
The repair and installation of machinery and equipment was the only manufacturing NACE division in 2010 to record apparent labour productivity below the manufacturing average accompanied by average personnel costs above the manufacturing average. The consequence of relatively low apparent labour productivity and relatively high average personnel costs was a low wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio. Indeed, the EU-27’s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector recorded the lowest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio (118.6 %) among any of the manufacturing NACE divisions in 2010.
By contrast, the EU-27’s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector recorded a gross operating rate of 9.3 % in 2010, which placed this sector between the manufacturing average (9.0 %) and the non-financial business economy average (10.1 %) for this measure of operating profitability.
Sectoral analysis
The repair of fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment (Group 33.1, hereafter referred to as repair) was the largest of the two subsectors in the EU-27, contributing two thirds (65.8 %) of the sector’s value added in 2009 and employing 70.0 % of the workforce in 2010; the remaining shares were accounted for by the installation of industrial machinery and equipment subsector (Group 33.2, hereafter referred to as installation).
These two subsectors registered quite different levels of apparent labour productivity within the EU-27 in 2010: the EUR 37.7 thousand per person employed for the repair subsector in 2009 was below the non-financial business economy average, while apparent labour productivity for the installation subsector (EUR 50.0 thousand in 2010) was between the non-financial business economy (EUR 44.8 thousand) and manufacturing (EUR 52.8 thousand) averages. However, both subsectors recorded EU-27 average personnel costs per employee above the non-financial business economy average (EUR 30.9 thousand) in 2010, although personnel costs for repair (EUR 34.6 thousand) were slightly below the manufacturing average (EUR 35.8 thousand) while those for installation (EUR 43.6 thousand) were considerably higher.
The relatively high gross operating rate for the whole of the EU-27’s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in 2010 was pulled upwards by the repair subsector where the gross operating surplus was equivalent to 10.5 % of turnover, just above the non-financial business economy average (10.1 %). By contrast, the gross operating rate for the installation subsector was 7.3 %, which was below the manufacturing average (9.0 %).
Country analysis
In value added terms, Germany had the highest level of output among the EU Member States within the repair and installation sector in 2010, with close to one quarter (23.4 %) of the EU-27 total; this was lower than Germany’s share (28.7 %) of EU-27 value added in manufacturing as a whole. Germany had the highest value added for both subsectors: registering a 27.1 % share of the EU-27 total for the installation subsector in 2010, and a 19.7 % share of EU-27 value added for the repair subsector in 2009. The French share of EU-27 value added within the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector was also large, at 21.1 % in 2010, while the British (11.9 %) share was also higher than its average share of EU-27 manufacturing value added, in contrast to the Italian share (12.5 %) which was slightly below average. The relative importance of the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector was highest in France, as this sector contributed 1.3 % of French non-financial business economy value added in 2010; in Croatia it represented 1.7 % of non-financial business economy value added. The next most specialised Member States were Poland (1.2 %), Slovakia, Finland, Latvia and Austria (all 1.1 %). By the same measure, by far the least specialised Member States were Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Cyprus, where the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector contributed 0.3 % or less of non-financial business economy value added in 2010.
All of the EU Member States recorded a relatively low wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio for the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in 2010: none of the Member States recorded a ratio for this sector that was equal to or above the average for their non-financial business economy as a whole. The lowest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratios were recorded in Sweden, Belgium and Slovakia, all less than 110.0 %, whereas the United Kingdom and Latvia recorded ratios above 170.0 %. For the gross operating rate, a minority of the Member States recorded a higher rate for the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector than for their national non-financial business economy as a whole, most notably Bulgaria, Slovenia and the United Kingdom; the latter recorded the highest gross operating rate (19.2 %) in the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in 2010 (although a rate of 43.2 % was posted in 2009 for Greece).
Size class analysis
Large enterprises (employing 250 or more persons) generated 37.6 % of the value added in the EU-27’s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in 2010, which was more than any of the other size classes shown in Figure 2. Nevertheless, this value added share for large enterprises was below the non-financial business economy (42.3 %) and manufacturing (55.5 %) averages. Large enterprises employed 29.9 % of the repair and installation of machinery and equipment workforce which was also below the overall shares of large enterprises in the non-financial business economy (32.5 %) and manufacturing (40.0 %) workforces. By contrast, the contributions of micro enterprises (employing fewer than 10 persons) and small enterprises (employing 10 to 49 persons) to the EU-27’s repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in value added and employment terms was greater than the average contributions of these two size classes to manufacturing as a whole.
Among the EU Member States in 2010, the highest share of total value added stemming from large enterprises was 62.5 % in Austria, while shares above one half were also recorded for the United Kingdom and Finland; the share in Croatia was marginally higher, at 62.6 %. In Belgium and Slovakia more value added within the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector was generated by medium-sized enterprises (employing 50 to 249 persons) than by any of the three other size classes shown in Table 6b; enterprises in this size class also made a considerable contribution to sectoral value added in Lithuania and Spain. Small enterprises made the biggest contributions in Italy, Spain and Portugal, whereas the micro enterprises size class accounted for the highest share of value added within the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in Greece (2009 data) and Cyprus.
Data sources and availability
The analysis presented in this article is based on the main dataset for structural business statistics (SBS) and size class data, all of which are published annually.
The main series provides information for each EU 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.
In structural business statistics, size classes are generally defined by the number of persons employed. A limited set of the standard structural business statistics variables (for example, the number of enterprises, turnover, persons employed and value added) are analysed by size class, mostly down to the three-digit (group) level of NACE. The main size classes used in this article for presenting the results are:
- small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): with 1 to 249 persons employed, further divided into;
- micro enterprises: with less than 10 persons employed;
- small enterprises: with 10 to 49 persons employed;
- medium-sized enterprises: with 50 to 249 persons employed;
- large enterprises: with 250 or more persons employed.
Context
This article presents an overview of statistics for the repair and installation of machinery and equipment sector in the EU, as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 33. The repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment includes specialised repair of manufactured goods with the aim to restore machinery, equipment and other products to working order. The provision of general or routine maintenance (in other words, servicing) on such products to ensure they work efficiently and to prevent breakdown and unnecessary repairs is also included, as is the specialised installation of machinery.
This NACE division is composed of two groups:
- the repair of fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment (Group 33.1);
- the installation of industrial machinery and equipment (Group 33.2).
This division only includes specialised repair and maintenance activities: note that a substantial amount of repair is also done by manufacturers of machinery, equipment and other goods themselves. Equally, rebuilding or remanufacturing of machinery and equipment is not included and is classified elsewhere in manufacturing. Also excluded from the statistics presented in this article is the cleaning of industrial machinery (which forms part of services to buildings and landscape activities, Division 81), as well as the repair and maintenance of goods that are utilised as capital goods and consumer goods (for example, office and household furniture repair) which is typically classified as part of the repair and maintenance of household goods (Division 95). The installation of equipment that forms an integral part of buildings or similar structures, such as the installation of electrical wiring, the installation of escalators or air-conditioning systems, is classified as part of construction (Section F).
See also
- Manufacturing
- Other analyses of the business economy by NACE Rev. 2 sector
- Structural business statistics introduced
Further Eurostat information
Publications
- European business - facts and figures (online publication)
- Key figures on European Business – with a special feature section on SMEs – 2011 edition
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)
- SMEs - Annual enterprise statistics by size class - industry and construction (sbs_sc_ind)
- Industry by employment size class (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 and figures (MS Excel)
Other information
- Decision 1578/2007/EC of 11 December 2007 on the Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012
- Regulation 295/2008 of 11 March 2008 concerning structural business statistics