Austria - Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in Austria was 10.59 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.32 in 1967 and a minimum value of 8.79 in 2006.

Definition: Value added in manufacturing is the sum of gross output less the value of intermediate inputs used in production for industries classified in ISIC major division D. Food, beverages, and tobacco correspond to ISIC divisions 15 and 16.

Source: United Nations Industrial Development Organization, International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics.

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Year Value
1963 18.72
1964 18.73
1965 18.98
1966 19.72
1967 20.32
1968 19.58
1969 18.85
1970 15.66
1971 16.50
1972 16.45
1973 15.56
1974 13.02
1975 14.48
1976 16.82
1977 17.09
1978 16.66
1979 16.23
1980 15.68
1981 15.86
1982 16.37
1983 16.66
1984 16.32
1985 16.17
1986 16.03
1987 16.14
1988 15.13
1989 14.45
1990 14.56
1991 14.72
1992 16.10
1993 16.86
1994 15.96
1995 11.61
1996 11.73
1997 10.93
1998 10.48
1999 9.52
2000 9.91
2001 8.94
2002 10.20
2003 10.14
2004 9.78
2005 9.11
2006 8.79
2007 8.83
2008 9.04
2009 10.69
2010 10.44
2011 9.85
2012 10.60
2013 10.64
2014 10.36
2015 10.75
2016 10.79
2017 10.93
2018 10.59
2019 10.59

Development Relevance: Firms typically use multiple processes to produce a product. For example, an automobile manufacturer engages in forging, welding, and painting as well as advertising, accounting, and other service activities. Collecting data at such a detailed level is not practical, nor is it useful to record production data at the highest level of a large, multiplant, multiproduct firm. The ISIC has therefore adopted as the definition of an establishment "an enterprise or part of an enterprise which independently engages in one, or predominantly one, kind of economic activity at or from one location . . . for which data are available . . ." (United Nations 1990). By design, this definition matches the reporting unit required for the production accounts of the United Nations System of National Accounts. The ISIC system is described in the United Nations' International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Third Revision (1990). The discussion of the ISIC draws on Ryten (1998).

Limitations and Exceptions: In establishing classifications systems compilers must define both the types of activities to be described and the units whose activities are to be reported. There are many possibilities, and the choices affect how the statistics can be interpreted and how useful they are in analyzing economic behavior. The ISIC emphasizes commonalities in the production process and is explicitly not intended to measure outputs (for which there is a newly developed Central Product Classification). Nevertheless, the ISIC views an activity as defined by "a process resulting in a homogeneous set of products."

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The data on the distribution of manufacturing value added by industry are provided by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). UNIDO obtains the data from a variety of national and international sources, including the United Nations Statistics Division, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the International Monetary Fund. To improve comparability over time and across countries, UNIDO supplements these data with information from industrial censuses, statistics from national and international organizations, unpublished data that it collects in the field, and estimates by the UNIDO Secretariat. Nevertheless, coverage may be incomplete, particularly for the informal sector. When direct information on inputs and outputs is not available, estimates may be used, which may result in errors in industry totals. Moreover, countries use different reference periods (calendar or fiscal year) and valuation methods (basic or producer prices) to estimate value added.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts