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 | 2021 January | 0.6 | 2.6 | -2.0 | 1.4 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 February | 0.1 | 0.0 | -0.9 | 1.0 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 March | 3.4 | 5.8 | 3.4 | 1.0 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 April | 6.5 | 7.3 | 10.5 | 1.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 May | 8.8 | 12.2 | 12.4 | 1.8 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 June | 11.5 | 14.9 | 18.1 | 1.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 July | 12.3 | 15.0 | 18.8 | 3.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 August | 9.6 | 5.9 | 20.6 | 2.4 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 September | 11.1 | 10.1 | 20.8 | 2.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 October | 12.3 | 12.4 | 21.1 | 3.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 November | 12.7 | 11.6 | 23.0 | 3.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 2021 December | 10.2 | 8.5 | 22.2 | -0.3 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 January | -5.0 | -3.4 | -7.2 | -4.3 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 February | -3.4 | -1.0 | -9.5 | 0.2 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 March | -4.8 | -2.5 | -10.0 | -2.0 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 April | 0.4 | 7.3 | -5.5 | -0.7 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 May | 0.7 | 11.5 | -9.3 | -0.2 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 June | 5.2 | 16.7 | -3.5 | 2.3 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 July | 6.6 | 18.0 | -2.8 | 4.7 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 August | 3.7 | 10.9 | -0.4 | 0.6 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 September | 6.3 | 10.2 | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 October | 5.8 | 10.6 | 5.2 | 1.6 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 November | 7.1 | 10.3 | 5.6 | 5.3 |
| 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages | 2021 December | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.2 | -1.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 January | 1.7 | -11.7 | 6.8 | 10.0 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 February | -6.7 | -10.8 | -3.0 | -6.2 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 March | 0.1 | 4.5 | -5.7 | 1.4 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 April | 0.8 | 2.8 | 5.5 | -5.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 May | 13.7 | 16.0 | 18.2 | 6.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 June | 16.6 | 19.4 | 19.7 | 10.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 July | 18.6 | 24.9 | 26.4 | 4.5 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 August | 17.8 | 17.9 | 29.3 | 6.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 September | 25.8 | 27.1 | 29.8 | 20.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 October | 12.4 | 16.6 | 16.6 | 3.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 November | 12.2 | 14.8 | 19.8 | 2.0 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | 2021 December | 8.5 | 5.5 | 22.0 | -2.2 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 January | 9.1 | 4.3 | 22.0 | 1.0 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 February | 4.9 | 2.6 | -3.1 | 15.1 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 March | 14.5 | 22.6 | 5.8 | 15.2 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 April | 20.5 | 21.6 | 15.6 | 24.2 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 May | 17.4 | 16.6 | 18.4 | 17.2 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 June | 22.7 | 23.5 | 43.8 | 0.7 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 July | 18.8 | 8.6 | 51.9 | -4.0 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 August | 19.7 | 7.4 | 43.4 | 8.4 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 September | 23.0 | 18.9 | 27.5 | 22.6 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 October | 22.8 | 27.4 | 29.0 | 12.0 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 November | 18.0 | 21.1 | 37.0 | -4.1 |
| 16+23 Man of wooden and buildingmaterial | 2021 December | 16.4 | 17.9 | 55.6 | -24.4 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 January | -2.1 | -17.5 | 2.1 | 9.0 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 February | -6.5 | -17.0 | -8.4 | 5.8 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 March | 1.7 | 11.1 | -1.3 | -4.6 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 April | 2.8 | 6.7 | 1.7 | 0.1 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 May | 11.2 | 7.1 | 19.6 | 6.8 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 June | 7.7 | 2.3 | 16.4 | 4.6 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 July | 13.7 | 6.7 | 27.7 | 6.8 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 August | 11.8 | -2.3 | 35.3 | 2.4 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 September | 11.3 | -2.5 | 29.7 | 6.9 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 October | 12.3 | -4.9 | 35.4 | 6.3 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 November | 18.3 | 13.1 | 29.9 | 11.9 |
| 17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing | 2021 December | 18.9 | 15.6 | 30.9 | 10.1 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 January | 3.4 | -0.3 | 4.6 | 5.8 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 February | 3.8 | 5.5 | 8.1 | -2.1 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 March | 8.2 | 11.0 | 8.6 | 5.1 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 April | 9.5 | 3.7 | 18.9 | 5.8 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 May | 12.7 | 7.9 | 23.4 | 6.8 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 June | 14.9 | 13.7 | 25.6 | 5.4 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 July | 11.2 | 8.1 | 20.1 | 5.4 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 August | 8.8 | -0.4 | 21.9 | 4.9 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 September | 11.9 | 8.7 | 24.4 | 2.6 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 October | 11.7 | 12.7 | 21.6 | 0.9 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 November | 7.8 | 7.5 | 17.7 | -1.8 |
| 19-22 Refineries and chemistry | 2021 December | 11.1 | 11.0 | 21.3 | 1.2 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 January | 2.7 | 13.4 | -1.7 | -3.6 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 February | 2.0 | 7.8 | 1.4 | -3.2 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 March | -0.2 | 1.8 | 3.4 | -5.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 April | 5.9 | 8.1 | 17.4 | -7.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 May | 8.9 | 10.4 | 20.5 | -4.2 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 June | 8.3 | 9.4 | 21.4 | -5.9 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 July | 10.7 | 9.6 | 25.8 | -3.4 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 August | 9.9 | 8.3 | 27.6 | -6.2 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 September | 9.5 | 10.5 | 27.4 | -9.4 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 October | 12.0 | 12.9 | 29.2 | -6.1 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 November | 14.4 | 22.2 | 25.5 | -4.4 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | 2021 December | 9.1 | 13.9 | 27.5 | -14.3 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 January | 5.8 | 9.5 | 7.2 | 0.8 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 February | 4.1 | -4.8 | 12.3 | 4.8 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 March | 11.1 | 10.2 | 17.3 | 5.7 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 April | 14.9 | 15.1 | 23.4 | 6.2 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 May | 19.5 | 27.1 | 28.9 | 2.4 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 June | 22.7 | 29.8 | 32.7 | 5.6 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 July | 23.2 | 25.1 | 34.5 | 10.2 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 August | 20.4 | 16.0 | 36.8 | 8.3 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 September | 21.9 | 23.2 | 34.7 | 7.8 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 October | 24.6 | 20.9 | 36.0 | 17.0 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 November | 23.9 | 14.4 | 38.0 | 19.2 |
| 26-28 Manufact of electronics, machinery | 2021 December | 20.9 | 10.4 | 38.4 | 13.9 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2021 January | 2.5 | 6.6 | -12.4 | 13.3 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2021 February | 7.1 | 7.4 | 6.1 | 7.6 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2021 March | 10.4 | 10.5 | 14.3 | 6.3 |
| 29-30 Transport equipment | 2021 April | 12.4 | 3.0 | 26.5 | 7.8 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||
Table description
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. 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:
Figures are definite.
Changes as of 30 December 2021:
Figures of December 2021 for the sectors of manufacturing industry have been added.
When will new figures be published?
January 2022 figures are expected to be published on 28 January 2022.
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.