Producer confidence; sentiment indicator manufacturing industry, branches
| Sector/branches (SIC 2008) | Periods | Producer confidence (%) | Producer confidence indicator components Expected activity (%) | Producer confidence indicator components Opinion on order books (%) | Producer confidence indicator components Stocks of finished products (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C Manufacturing | 2022 September | 1.2 | 6.4 | 6.3 | -9.1 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 October | 0.9 | 5.8 | 5.4 | -8.4 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 November | 1.1 | 8.6 | 5.5 | -10.9 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 December | 1.0 | 9.1 | 4.9 | -11.0 |
| C Manufacturing | 2023 January | 1.1 | 10.3 | 4.4 | -11.5 |
| C Manufacturing | 2023 February | 0.9 | 8.7 | 3.6 | -9.5 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 September | -0.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | -11.1 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 October | -0.7 | 3.3 | 3.0 | -10.2 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 November | -0.3 | 6.2 | 3.1 | -12.9 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 December | -0.4 | 6.7 | 2.5 | -12.8 |
| C Manufacturing | 2023 January | -0.3 | 7.8 | 2.0 | -13.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 2023 February | -0.5 | 6.0 | 1.1 | -11.5 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 September | 2.8 | 8.9 | 8.7 | -7.1 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 October | 2.5 | 8.3 | 7.8 | -6.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 November | 2.5 | 11.0 | 7.9 | -8.9 |
| C Manufacturing | 2022 December | 2.4 | 11.5 | 7.3 | -9.2 |
| C Manufacturing | 2023 January | 2.5 | 12.8 | 6.8 | -9.7 |
| C Manufacturing | 2023 February | 2.3 | 11.4 | 6.1 | -7.5 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 September | -1.8 | 1.3 | -4.1 | -2.6 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 October | -4.3 | -0.8 | -6.7 | -5.5 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 November | -2.6 | 3.2 | -4.9 | -6.1 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 December | -2.4 | 1.4 | -5.2 | -3.5 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2023 January | -3.6 | 1.9 | -6.4 | -6.4 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2023 February | -4.2 | 1.6 | -6.7 | -7.4 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 September | -5.3 | -5.6 | -8.6 | -7.3 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 October | -7.8 | -7.5 | -11.2 | -9.8 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 November | -5.9 | -3.7 | -8.4 | -10.8 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 December | -5.7 | -5.3 | -9.3 | -8.0 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2023 January | -7.1 | -5.2 | -10.5 | -10.1 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2023 February | -7.7 | -5.7 | -11.2 | -11.9 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 September | 1.7 | 8.2 | 0.4 | 2.1 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 October | -0.8 | 5.9 | -2.2 | -1.2 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 November | 0.7 | 10.1 | -1.4 | -1.4 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2022 December | 0.9 | 8.1 | -1.1 | 1.0 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2023 January | -0.1 | 9.0 | -2.3 | -2.7 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2023 February | -0.7 | 8.9 | -2.2 | -2.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 September | -14.5 | -16.6 | -15.9 | -11.1 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 October | -7.2 | 9.9 | -14.7 | -16.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 November | -0.4 | 19.0 | -4.9 | -15.2 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 December | -6.3 | 4.1 | -12.6 | -10.4 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2023 January | -4.1 | 7.8 | -8.0 | -12.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2023 February | -1.4 | 9.5 | -4.3 | -9.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 September | -24.3 | -32.7 | -28.4 | -20.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 October | -17.6 | -3.4 | -27.0 | -28.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 November | -7.8 | 4.7 | -15.3 | -24.2 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 December | -15.1 | -8.8 | -26.3 | -21.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2023 January | -11.5 | -7.3 | -18.2 | -22.7 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2023 February | -8.7 | -4.8 | -16.5 | -18.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 September | -4.7 | -0.5 | -3.4 | -1.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 October | 3.2 | 23.2 | -2.4 | -4.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 November | 7.0 | 33.3 | 5.5 | -6.2 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2022 December | 2.5 | 17.0 | 1.1 | 0.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2023 January | 3.3 | 22.9 | 2.2 | -1.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2023 February | 5.9 | 23.8 | 7.9 | 0.3 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 September | -11.0 | -14.4 | -1.2 | -17.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 October | -11.6 | -11.8 | -6.2 | -16.7 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 November | -12.2 | -13.8 | -9.5 | -13.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 December | -12.6 | -14.6 | -9.0 | -14.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2023 January | -7.3 | -1.4 | -9.4 | -11.0 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2023 February | -10.8 | -11.8 | -10.8 | -9.8 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 September | -17.1 | -24.8 | -8.8 | -26.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 October | -17.9 | -23.4 | -15.2 | -24.3 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 November | -18.9 | -25.2 | -17.3 | -22.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 December | -17.7 | -24.4 | -16.3 | -20.9 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2023 January | -12.2 | -8.5 | -18.8 | -18.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2023 February | -16.1 | -21.6 | -19.4 | -16.7 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 September | -4.9 | -4.0 | 6.4 | -8.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 October | -5.3 | -0.2 | 2.8 | -9.1 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 November | -5.5 | -2.4 | -1.7 | -4.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2022 December | -7.5 | -4.8 | -1.7 | -7.9 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2023 January | -2.4 | 5.7 | 0.0 | -3.6 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2023 February | -5.5 | -2.0 | -2.2 | -2.9 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 September | -5.9 | 2.1 | -4.3 | -15.6 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 October | -7.2 | 3.9 | -14.7 | -10.8 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 November | -8.9 | 1.9 | -16.1 | -12.6 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 December | -12.5 | -1.3 | -18.4 | -17.6 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2023 January | -10.0 | 7.4 | -19.7 | -17.8 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2023 February | -5.8 | 7.1 | -20.4 | -4.2 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 September | -12.8 | -10.6 | -14.9 | -24.2 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 October | -14.5 | -10.4 | -25.9 | -18.2 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 November | -16.2 | -11.8 | -26.9 | -21.2 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 December | -20.1 | -15.8 | -28.8 | -26.2 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2023 January | -16.9 | -4.0 | -30.9 | -28.2 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2023 February | -14.2 | -7.0 | -30.8 | -15.2 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 September | 1.0 | 14.8 | 6.3 | -7.0 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 October | 0.1 | 18.2 | -3.5 | -3.4 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 November | -1.6 | 15.6 | -5.3 | -4.0 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2022 December | -4.9 | 13.2 | -8.0 | -9.0 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2023 January | -3.1 | 18.8 | -8.5 | -7.4 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2023 February | 2.6 | 21.2 | -10.0 | 6.8 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 September | -9.4 | -4.2 | -11.8 | -12.2 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 October | -9.9 | -9.2 | -13.5 | -7.0 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 November | -7.8 | -4.3 | -9.9 | -9.2 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 December | -8.2 | 2.6 | -15.8 | -11.4 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2023 January | -8.2 | 4.2 | -17.6 | -11.1 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2023 February | -6.8 | 4.1 | -12.9 | -11.8 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 September | -14.1 | -11.8 | -17.7 | -18.1 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 October | -13.6 | -15.9 | -19.8 | -12.1 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 November | -11.1 | -10.0 | -15.0 | -14.7 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 December | -11.7 | -3.5 | -21.9 | -16.3 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2023 January | -11.9 | -2.7 | -23.9 | -16.2 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2023 February | -10.7 | -2.4 | -19.6 | -17.5 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 September | -4.7 | 3.4 | -5.9 | -6.3 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 October | -6.2 | -2.5 | -7.2 | -1.9 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 November | -4.5 | 1.4 | -4.8 | -3.7 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2022 December | -4.7 | 8.7 | -9.7 | -6.5 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2023 January | -4.5 | 11.1 | -11.3 | -6.0 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2023 February | -2.9 | 10.6 | -6.2 | -6.1 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 September | -1.1 | 7.7 | 8.9 | -19.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 October | -0.5 | 8.9 | 8.4 | -18.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 November | 1.7 | 16.7 | 9.0 | -20.6 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 December | -1.1 | 10.6 | 9.7 | -23.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2023 January | -0.6 | 12.2 | 10.0 | -24.0 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2023 February | 0.1 | 9.7 | 7.3 | -16.6 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 September | -5.2 | 1.0 | 1.6 | -24.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 October | -4.6 | 2.6 | 0.8 | -23.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 November | -2.4 | 10.2 | 1.9 | -25.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 December | -4.8 | 4.5 | 2.3 | -28.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2023 January | -5.1 | 5.3 | 2.4 | -28.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2023 February | -4.8 | 2.3 | -1.3 | -21.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 September | 3.0 | 14.4 | 16.2 | -15.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 October | 3.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | -13.6 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 November | 5.8 | 23.2 | 16.1 | -15.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2022 December | 2.6 | 16.7 | 17.1 | -18.9 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2023 January | 3.9 | 19.1 | 17.6 | -19.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2023 February | 5.0 | 17.1 | 15.9 | -11.5 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 September | 15.8 | 20.4 | 28.4 | -1.5 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 October | 15.6 | 21.5 | 30.4 | -5.1 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 November | 13.6 | 22.9 | 27.2 | -9.3 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 December | 15.8 | 27.4 | 28.0 | -7.8 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2023 January | 15.0 | 25.3 | 28.9 | -9.3 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2023 February | 14.0 | 25.2 | 25.2 | -8.4 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 September | 12.9 | 15.9 | 23.1 | -5.2 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 October | 12.7 | 17.2 | 25.3 | -8.4 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 November | 10.9 | 18.6 | 22.5 | -12.8 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 December | 13.1 | 23.3 | 23.1 | -11.3 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2023 January | 12.5 | 21.0 | 23.6 | -13.4 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2023 February | 11.6 | 20.3 | 20.5 | -12.1 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 September | 18.7 | 24.9 | 33.7 | 2.2 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 October | 18.5 | 25.8 | 35.5 | -1.8 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 November | 16.3 | 27.2 | 31.9 | -5.8 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2022 December | 18.5 | 31.5 | 32.9 | -4.3 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2023 January | 17.5 | 29.6 | 34.2 | -5.2 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2023 February | 16.4 | 30.1 | 29.9 | -4.7 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 September | 10.3 | 15.4 | 26.7 | -11.2 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 October | 15.7 | 14.4 | 26.9 | 5.9 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 November | 13.0 | 16.1 | 30.0 | -7.0 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 December | 12.0 | 15.5 | 29.5 | -9.1 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2023 January | 10.3 | 12.7 | 28.6 | -10.3 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2023 February | 8.5 | 8.6 | 27.9 | -11.1 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 September | 7.0 | 9.9 | 17.7 | -20.0 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 October | 10.6 | 10.1 | 17.1 | -0.6 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 November | 8.1 | 11.8 | 17.1 | -13.7 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 December | 7.1 | 8.2 | 16.6 | -15.6 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2023 January | 6.2 | 5.4 | 17.6 | -16.6 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2023 February | 4.4 | 1.7 | 17.7 | -16.6 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 September | 13.6 | 20.9 | 35.7 | -2.4 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 October | 20.8 | 18.7 | 36.7 | 12.4 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 November | 17.9 | 20.4 | 42.9 | -0.3 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2022 December | 16.9 | 22.8 | 42.4 | -2.6 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2023 January | 14.4 | 20.0 | 39.6 | -4.0 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2023 February | 12.6 | 15.5 | 38.1 | -5.6 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||
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Producer confidence is a sentiment indicator for the manufacturing industry that indicates the direction in which manufacturing production is expected to develop. The indicator is an unweighted arithmetic average of three component indicators from the Business sentiment survey of the manufacturing industry. Before the Producer confidence is calculated, seasonal effects are removed from the three component indicators. The questions concern the expected activity in the next three months, opinion on order books and opinion on stocks of finished products. Results of the latter question are inverted when calculating the producer confidence, since a surplus of finished products is seen as something negative.
The more optimistic or pessimistic manufacturing companies are, the more positive or negative the value of the producer confidence indicator is compared with the zero line, and the greater the expectation that manufacturing production in the coming months will increase or decrease respectively. The producer confidence indicator has been available since 1985. For the sectors of manufacturing industry given in this table, the results are available from the start of 1994.
This publication is created using co-financing by the European Commission.
Data available from: January 1985
Status of the figures:
The figures are definitive.
Changes as of March 28th 2024:
Figures of March 2024 have been added.
An improvement has been made to the calculation of the margins. This may result in a small change in the upper and lower limit of the margin. The values are unchanged.
From now on figures will be labeled as seasonally adjusted or original, even if the table only contains one of these data types.
When will new figures be published?
April 2024 figures are expected to be published on April 29th, 2024.
Description topics
- Producer confidence
- Producer confidence is a sentiment indicator for the manufacturing industry that indicates the direction in which manufacturing production is expected to develop. The indicator is an unweighted arithmetic average of three component indicators from the Business sentiment survey of the manufacturing industry. Before the Producer confidence is calculated, seasonal and bias effects are removed from the three component indicators. The questions concern the expected activity in the next three months, opinion on order books and opinion on stocks of finished products.
The more optimistic or pessimistic manufacturing companies are, the more positive or negative the value of the producer confidence indicator is compared with the zero line, and the greater the expectation that manufacturing production in the coming months will increase or decrease respectively. The producer confidence indicator has been available since 1985. For the sectors of manufacturing industry given in this table, the results are available from the start of 1994. - Producer confidence indicator components
- Producer confidence consists of three component indicators from the
Business sentiment survey: expected activity, opinions on order books
and stocks of finished products.- Expected activity
- Volume indicator calculated as the percentage of positive answers minus
the percentage of negative answers to the question whether production
in the coming three months will increase, remain the same or decrease.
Seasonal and bias effects are removed.
- Opinion on order books
- Volume indicator calculated as a percentage of positive answers minus
the percentage of negative answers to the question whether the volume
of orders in the order book are too large, normal or too small,
given the time of the year. Seasonal and bias effects are removed.
- Stocks of finished products
- Volume indicator calculated as the percentage of positive answers minus
the percentage of negative answers to the question whether the volume
of stocks of finished products is too large, normal or too small, given
expected sales developments. Seasonal and bias effects are removed.
The outcome then is inverted, since a surplus of finished products is seen as something negative.