Statistics on trade inventories

Producer: Statistics Finland
Homepage: http:// www.tilastokeskus.fi/til/kvr/index_en.html
Main topic: Trade
Related topics: Enterprises
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Yes
European Statistical System (ESS): No

Description

The statistics on trade inventories describe the current priced values of the inventories of trade enterprises by industry. The statistics are compiled from data on individual enterprises. Enterprises are inquired quarterly about the value of their inventories at the end of the quarter concerned. The values of inventories are asked by type of inventory: materials and supplies, fuels and lubricants, unfinished work, finished products and merchandise. The values of inventories by industry calculated from the sample are raised to correspond with the values of the inventories of the whole population (enterprises whose industry is trade) using the latest turnover data available from the financial statement statistics on enterprises. The calculation is based on the assumption that the ratio between the values of turnover and inventories is constant within the industry.

Data content

The statistics on trade inventories are quarterly, sample based statistics. They describe the value of the inventories of trade enterprises at current prices by the following industrial division: trade total, motor vehicle trade, wholesale trade and retail trade.

Classifications used

Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2008.

Data collection methods and data sources

The statistics on trade inventories are calculated from data on a sample of trade enterprises operating in Finland. The sample is drawn from enterprises included in the industry of trade (SIC 45 – SIC 47) in Statistics Finland’s financial statement statistics. A sufficient number of enterprises by branch of trade are included in the survey for the statistics on trade inventories in order to ensure that development in the industry’s inventories can be reliably described using the data they provide. At the moment the survey is conducted among good 300 enterprises.