For the first quarter of this year, in the national total, the real production of the manufacturing industry increased 6.2%, and real sales increased 6.5% compared to the same period of 2020.
According to the Monthly Manufacturing Survey with a Territorial Approach (Emmet), carried out by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), the real production of the manufacturing industry increased 20.7% and real sales 21.1% in March 2021 compared to the same period in 2020. However, the employed personnel decreased 2.4%.
With a variation of 34.5%, the manufacture of beverages was the industrial activity with the greatest positive contribution (3.5 pp). For its part, the production of sugar and panela registered a negative variation of 32%.
With respect to employed personnel, clothing manufacturing presented a variation of -6.1%, and was the domain that contributed the most negatively (-0.6 pp) to the March 2021 figure, which was – 2.4% compared to the same month of 2020.
For the first quarter of this year, in the national total, the real production of the manufacturing industry increased 6.2%, and real sales increased 6.5% in relation to the same period of 2020. However, the employed personnel it was reduced -3.7%.
Beverage production registered a 9% variation in the first three months of 2021 in real production, compared to the first quarter of 2020 and was the domain with the highest positive contribution (1.0 pp). For its part, with -11%, the production of sugar and panela was the industrial activity with the greatest negative contribution (-0.3 pp) to the variation so far this year.
Between April 2020 and March 2021, compared to the period April 2019 and March 2020, the real production of the manufacturing industry presented a variation of -6.4%, the real sales of -6.4% and the personnel -6.4% occupied.
By department, Antioquia presented the highest positive contribution to the result of production and real sales in March compared to the same month of 2020. Regarding employed personnel, Bogotá obtained the highest negative contribution (-1.6 pp) to the annual result (- 2.4%), with a variation of -6.9%.
Regarding cities, Bogotá registered in March the highest positive contribution to the total annual result of production and real sales. For its part, in real sales, Cali had the greatest negative contribution to this result in March 2021, with a variation of -2.5% and a contribution of -0.1 pp
Commerce
For March of this year, according to the Monthly Trade Survey (EMC), retail and vehicle trade had a variation of 20.1% in their real sales compared to the same month of 2020. When excluding sales of fuels and vehicles, this annual variation was 9.7%. Thus, “the variation in real sales for the first three months of 2021 was 4.7% with respect to the same period in 2020. Said variation without the sale of fuels or vehicles was 2.6%,” said the DANE.
Follow the news of El Espectador on Google NewsReal sales of fuels for motor vehicles presented an annual variation of 39.1% in March. On the other hand, motor vehicles and motorcycles mainly for household use (sale of private cars, camper vans, trucks, motorcycles and the like, and of used vehicles made in dealerships) registered an annual variation of 85.9% and contributed 5.6 pp
The food category (groceries in general) had a -19.3% contraction in its real sales in March compared to the same month of 2020, and contributed -5.8 pp to the total variation of retail trade and vehicles. Personal hygiene products, cosmetics and perfumery contributed -0.6 pp with an annual variation of their real sales was -12.5%.
Regarding sales made through electronic commerce, they increased 71% in March 2021 compared to the same month of 2020. In the first three months of 2021, the variation in sales made through electronic commerce was 127.1% in compared to the same period in 2020.
Wholesale trade, which is calculated as the difference between sales and the cost of the merchandise sold, registered a variation of 38.7% in March compared to the same month of 2020. Between January and March, this variation was 23, 5% compared to the first three months of last year. In turn, the employed personnel of wholesale companies fell 1.1% in March compared to the same month in 2020.
Services
According to the Monthly Survey of Services, the subsector of restaurants, catering and bars registered variations of 43.6% in their total income and 4% in their salaries in March. However, the number of employed personnel was reduced by 14.3%. For its part,
The category other entertainment services also showed increases of 38.1% in its total income in March 2021 and increases of 8% in salaries compared to March 2020. The personnel employed in this subsector decreased 8.7%.
accommodation
For its part, the Monthly Accommodation Survey showed that the country’s hotel establishments registered an increase of 14.2% in their real income in March compared to the same month of the previous year. The Caribbean Coast (made up of Atlántico, Cesar, La Guajira and Magdalena) and Central (Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Huila and Tolima) regions contributed 5.6 percentage points (pp) and 5.0 pp, respectively.
