Price inquiry on producer price indices for manufactured products and services

Your enterprise has been included in the inquiry in case enterprise is:

• a producer, importer, exporter of one or more important product groups or
• a provider of one or more important product groups belonging to the index.

The statistics on producer price indices for manufactured products cover enterprises that have manufacturing, imports or exports within the main categories A to F of the CPA 2008 product classification. The sample contains enterprises that have had manufacturing, imports or exports during the time period for which the data supplier sample has been made. The data suppliers have been selected from the Business Register, commodity statistics of manufacturing, and the foreign trade statistics of Finnish Customs using a stratified random sample.

The sampling frame of the producer price indices for manufactured products is based on Statistics Finland’s Business Register and statistics on service industry commodities. Depending on the service industry, data suppliers have been selected either by applying probability-based sampling and/or judicious sampling.

The data supplier sample for the producer price indices is updated annually.

Organisations have an obligation to provide data. The obligation to provide data is based on the Statistics Act (280/2004).

Statistics are beneficial for enterprises as well. Statistics can be used by enterprises to monitor, for example, the development of pay or trade in Finland. ⁠⁠The more comprehensive the data we receive from enterprises, the better our statistics describe the activity of enterprises. Enterprises will then get better statistics as a basis for their decision-making.

To thank you for responding, there is a link on the end page to a compilation of business statistics where you can view statistical data by industry. Previous statistical releases can also be accessed on the end page and the latest statistical news on selected topics can be ordered to your email free of charge there.

No, you cannot. You must enter the producer price of the product.

Here, domestic market price refers to the price of a product manufactured in Finland when it first enters the market. In other words, report here the factory price exclusive of taxes.

Data are reported without value added tax. If the market price including excise duty is asked on the form, report all possible excise and environmental protection taxes, but value added tax is also left unreported in this case. As an exception to this rule, when reporting the taxable price of cars, both the motor vehicle tax and value added tax are reported in the price.

No, report prices without customs taxes.

Producer price indices for manufactured products and services are used in GDP and volume calculations when measuring economic growth, for example. The statistics are also utilised in connection with financial analyses and to support decision-making related to economic policies. Research institutes and enterprises use the indices in their reports, monitoring and forecasts. They can also be used as index clauses in agreements.

The data from the data collection are used in the following statistics:

• Producer price indices for services
• Producer price indices