Services producer price indices: postal and courier activities and telecommunications

Services Producer Price Indices (SPPIs) or Output Price Indices for Services measure quarterly changes in the prices received for services provided by enterprises to other enterprises and Government. This means the SPPIs cover what are commonly known as business to business transactions, thus leaving out sales to consumers.

The indices are chained based and are calculated according to Ateco 2007 classification (Italian edition of Nace Rev. 2).

In quarter IV 2012 the producer price index in the sector of Postal and courier activities, with reference base year 2006=100, fell by 0.9% compared with the previous quarter and by 1.0% compared with the same quarter of 2011.

In the same period the index of Telecommunications, with reference base year 2006=100, fell by 3.5% compared with the previous quarter (-2.1% for Wired telecommunications activities and -6.8% for Wireless telecommunications activities)  and decreased by 8.3%  compared with  the same quarter  of  the previous  year  (-6.3% for Wired telecommunications activities and -12.7% for the Wireless ones).

In quarter IV 2012 the producer price index in the sector of Sea and coastal water transport, with reference base year 2010=100, increased by 8.3% compared with the previous quarter and decreased by 6.7% compared with the same quarter of 2011.

In the same period the index of Air transport, with reference base year 2010=100, fell by 0.1% compared with the previous quarter (-2.5% for Passenger air transport and +2.4% for Freight air transport) and increased by 2.1% compared with the same quarter of the previous year (+4.3% for Passenger air transport and +0.2% for Freight air transport).