In October, enterprises in all manufacturing industries received less orders than twelve months ago.
In the metal industry, orders declined by 8.7 per cent and in the industry of the manufacture of paper and paper board products by 9.4 per cent.
The index of new orders in manufacturing describes development in the value of new orders received by enterprises for commodities and services that are meant to be produced by establishments located in Finland. These statistics are based on non-probability sampling, in which the basic observation unit is an enterprise or a kind-of-activity unit.
The sample comprises monthly 400 to 450 enterprises or their kind-of-activity units. Index point figures and annual change percentages are published monthly for five industry categories.