Producer confidence; sentiment indicator manufacturing industry, branches
| Sector/branches (SIC 2008) | Margins | Seasonal adjustment | Periods | Producer confidence indicator components Stocks of finished products (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | -5.7 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -7.0 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | -5.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | 0.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -7.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | 3.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | 6.1 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -8.7 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | -2.7 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | 2.0 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | -6.2 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | -7.5 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | -13.1 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -13.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | -13.8 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | -4.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -14.7 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | -4.1 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | -3.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -17.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | -7.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | -9.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | -14.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | -19.3 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | 1.7 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -0.7 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | 2.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | 5.5 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -0.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | 11.9 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | 16.1 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -0.1 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | 2.2 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | 13.6 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | 2.2 |
| 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | 4.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | -11.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -16.9 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | -8.4 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | -13.4 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -9.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | -13.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | -11.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -15.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | -14.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | -5.6 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | -5.2 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | -13.2 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | -16.2 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -22.0 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | -13.1 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | -17.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -14.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | -17.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | -15.6 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -19.6 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | -19.1 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | -10.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | -9.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | -17.9 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | -6.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -11.8 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | -3.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | -9.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -5.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | -10.3 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | -7.0 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -11.4 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | -10.5 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | -0.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | -0.7 |
| 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | -8.5 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||
Table explanation
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 November 27th 2025:
Figures of November 2025 have been added.
Changes as of September 4th 2025:
Corrections have been made to previously supplied data for the manufacture of metals. For this reason figures for producer confidence indicator component ‘Stocks of finished products’ has been adjusted for 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products and C Manufacturing.
When will new figures be published?
Figures of December 2025 are expected to be published the 29th of December 2025.
Description topics
- 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.- 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.