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Since March 31, 2017 data on service producer prices have been published in the press release Industrial producer prices and Services producer prices
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Services producer price indices
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, namely the basket of services and the weighting system are annually updated. Quarterly indices for the current year are calculated with reference to the last quarter of the previous year (calculation base) and subsequently chained over the period chosen as reference base in order to be able to measure price trends over a period of time of more than a year. The indices are calculated according to Ateco 2007 classification (Italian edition of Nace Rev. 2).
In quarter III 2013 the producer price index in the sector of Postal and courier activities, with reference base year 2010=100, decreased by 1.2% compared with the previous quarter and decreased by 0.4% compared with the same quarter of 2012.
In the same period the index of Telecommunications, with reference base year 2010=100, increased by 0.4% compared with the previous quarter (-1.2% for Wired telecommunications activities and +4.0% for Wireless telecommunications activities) and decreased by 6.9% compared with the same quarter of the previous year (-4.2% for Wired telecommunications activities and -12.6% for the Wireless ones).
In quarter III 2013 the producer price index in the sector of Sea and coastal water transport, with reference base year 2010=100, increased by 2.4% compared with the previous quarter and increased by 14.6% compared with the same quarter of 2012.
In the same period the index of Air transport, with reference base year 2010=100, decreased by 0.9% compared with the previous quarter (-2.7% for Passenger air transport and +1.1% for Freight air transport) and decreased by 0.9% compared with the same quarter of the previous year (-3.1% for Passenger air transport and +1.4% for Freight air transport).