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i12 services recession and recovery(?)<br />
Service industries have grown faster and have been<br />
exposed to fewer cyclical fluctuations than total industry<br />
since 1996. Inspection of quarterly data on value added<br />
in constant prices over the period confirms that the<br />
service sector generally shows higher growth rates and<br />
less volatility than total industry. 17 Due to limited data<br />
availability, the latest crisis can only be compared to the<br />
recession at the turn of the millennium. Developments in<br />
FIgURE I.8: growth in <strong>EU</strong> services industries 1996-2011 (%)<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
-5<br />
-10<br />
-15<br />
-20<br />
1996<br />
1996Q4<br />
1997Q3<br />
1998Q2<br />
1999<br />
17 Since there is no data on production in constant prices, value<br />
added is used to calculate growth rates for services.<br />
1999Q4<br />
2000Q3<br />
2001Q2<br />
2001Q2<br />
Chapter I — The aftermath of the crisis — a long and uneven recovery(?)<br />
2002<br />
2002Q4<br />
both recessions, however, show that the fall in production<br />
for total industry was significantly larger than for services. 18<br />
In fact, negative growth rates for the service industries did<br />
not appear before the latest recession. Data availability<br />
only allows for comparison of large aggregates of services<br />
industries. Fluctuations for trade, hotels and restaurants are<br />
relatively larger than for the other aggregates of service<br />
industries. Non‑market services show considerably less<br />
volatility, cf. Figure I.8.<br />
Non-market services<br />
Financial intermediation and business services<br />
Trade, hotels and restaurants<br />
Total industry (excluding construction)<br />
Note: Growth rates in <strong>EU</strong> services industries and total industry value added in constant prices relative to the same quarter of the previous<br />
year in 1996:1‑2011:1 (%).<br />
Source: own calculations using Eurostat data.<br />
Below, two groups of market services are compared to GDP.<br />
The relatively large sensitivity to fluctuations for the group<br />
‘trade, hotels and restaurants is obvious and fluctuations in<br />
production for these service industries are larger than for<br />
GDP as a whole. Also the growth in value added for this<br />
group of service industries exceeds that of GDP for the<br />
period 1996‑2009.<br />
2003Q3<br />
2004Q2<br />
2005<br />
2005Q4<br />
2006Q3<br />
2007Q2<br />
Growth rates for ‘Financial intermediation and business<br />
services’ are higher and fluctuate less than growth rates for<br />
‘trade, hotels and restaurants. The fall in production was<br />
also less than half of that for GDP. The figure indicates that<br />
developments in the sector lag behind that of GDP. The<br />
decline begins later, the trough appears later and finally the<br />
recovery begins a quarter later than the recovery of GDP,<br />
cf. Figure I.9.<br />
18 Total industry consists of mining and quarrying, manufacturing<br />
and industries producing electricity, gas and water.<br />
2008<br />
2008Q4<br />
2009Q3<br />
2010Q2<br />
2011<br />
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