Netherlands Business survey, region, month 1989-2023

Netherlands Business survey, region, month 1989-2023

Businesses/activities (SBI 2008) Regions Periods Assessment of finished products stocks Stocks finished products (too) large (%) Assessment of finished products stocks Stocks finished products normal (%) Assessment of finished products stocks Stocks finished products (too) small (%) Assessment of finished products stocks Not applicable (%) Assessment of finished products stocks Balance assessment stocks (%)
C Manufacturing Nederland 2022 July 13.8 62.0 10.0 14.2 3.7
C Manufacturing Nederland 2022 August 16.4 61.9 7.1 14.6 9.3
C Manufacturing Nederland 2022 September 16.3 61.4 7.2 15.1 9.2
C Manufacturing Nederland 2022 October 15.3 64.3 5.9 14.5 9.4
C Manufacturing Nederland 2022 November 16.9 62.2 5.7 15.2 11.2
C Manufacturing Nederland 2022 December 16.6 64.0 5.0 14.4 11.7
C Manufacturing Nederland 2023 January 15.7 67.2 4.2 12.9 11.4
C Manufacturing Nederland 2023 February 14.3 66.8 5.2 13.7 9.1
C Manufacturing Nederland 2023 March 13.4 67.1 5.2 14.3 8.2
C Manufacturing Nederland 2023 April 12.8 69.5 4.1 13.6 8.7
C Manufacturing Nederland 2023 May 13.8 66.8 4.4 15.0 9.4
C Manufacturing Nederland 2023 June 14.3 66.8 4.2 14.7 10.2
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2022 July 10.6 65.0 8.9 15.5 1.8
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2022 August 13.7 64.5 7.6 14.2 6.1
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2022 September 9.7 67.2 8.6 14.5 1.2
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2022 October 10.0 68.0 6.1 15.9 3.9
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2022 November 12.5 65.0 6.7 15.8 5.7
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2022 December 15.0 66.1 5.3 13.6 9.8
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2023 January 13.6 68.4 6.7 11.3 6.9
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2023 February 15.4 65.6 7.1 11.9 8.3
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2023 March 12.1 65.7 8.3 13.9 3.7
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2023 April 17.0 65.1 5.8 12.1 11.2
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2023 May 16.4 66.1 2.7 14.8 13.7
C Manufacturing Noord-Nederland (LD) 2023 June 15.3 62.9 5.2 16.6 10.1
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2022 July 15.1 62.6 9.2 13.1 5.9
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2022 August 15.4 63.7 8.8 12.1 6.7
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2022 September 15.1 63.2 9.1 12.6 6.0
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2022 October 17.5 64.0 6.8 11.7 10.8
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2022 November 18.9 60.9 7.2 13.0 11.6
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2022 December 16.5 65.2 4.8 13.5 11.7
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2023 January 16.5 67.2 4.4 11.9 12.1
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2023 February 16.2 64.7 6.3 12.8 10.0
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2023 March 14.9 66.2 6.7 12.2 8.3
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2023 April 13.6 70.2 4.0 12.2 9.5
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2023 May 12.7 68.1 4.7 14.5 7.9
C Manufacturing Oost-Nederland (LD) 2023 June 14.3 67.7 3.2 14.8 11.1
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2022 July 11.2 67.2 5.2 16.4 6.0
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2022 August 16.7 58.8 6.3 18.2 10.5
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2022 September 17.4 59.1 4.8 18.7 12.6
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2022 October 15.3 62.4 3.5 18.8 11.7
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2022 November 19.0 58.4 4.2 18.4 14.8
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2022 December 18.4 58.3 5.3 18.0 13.1
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2023 January 16.8 62.4 2.7 18.1 14.1
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2023 February 14.1 64.6 3.0 18.3 11.0
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2023 March 14.2 64.0 2.5 19.3 11.6
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2023 April 11.7 66.4 2.9 19.0 8.8
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2023 May 15.5 61.2 2.9 20.4 12.5
C Manufacturing West-Nederland (LD) 2023 June 16.3 62.4 2.7 18.6 13.6
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2022 July 16.3 55.3 16.1 12.3 0.3
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2022 August 17.8 62.8 6.6 12.8 11.1
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2022 September 18.2 60.7 7.7 13.4 10.6
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2022 October 15.4 65.3 7.7 11.6 7.7
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2022 November 14.6 66.3 5.8 13.3 8.8
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2022 December 15.4 68.5 4.6 11.5 10.8
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2023 January 14.4 71.6 5.0 9.0 9.5
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2023 February 12.7 70.9 5.9 10.5 6.8
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2023 March 11.8 71.4 5.8 11.0 6.0
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2023 April 12.0 73.4 4.8 9.8 7.2
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2023 May 12.3 71.6 6.1 10.0 6.1
C Manufacturing Zuid-Nederland (LD) 2023 June 12.1 71.8 6.0 10.1 6.1
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2022 July 11.8 63.2 8.3 16.7 3.4
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2022 August 13.1 67.1 5.5 14.3 7.5
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2022 September 10.1 66.3 9.8 13.8 0.3
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2022 October 13.6 63.3 7.0 16.1 6.7
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2022 November 11.0 68.7 3.6 16.7 7.3
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2022 December 13.9 70.6 3.4 12.1 10.5
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2023 January 15.0 70.4 4.3 10.3 10.8
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2023 February 13.3 69.5 6.9 10.3 6.4
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2023 March 17.0 63.7 8.8 10.5 8.2
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2023 April 18.3 70.5 2.3 8.9 16.0
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2023 May 17.7 65.1 4.3 12.9 13.3
C Manufacturing Groningen (PV) 2023 June 15.6 64.2 5.4 14.8 10.2
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2022 July 10.8 67.0 11.4 10.8 -0.5
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2022 August 16.3 62.7 9.9 11.1 6.4
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2022 September 7.4 72.0 8.2 12.4 -0.8
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2022 October 6.1 74.6 7.0 12.3 -1.0
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2022 November 12.5 67.0 7.8 12.7 4.7
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2022 December 16.4 67.8 5.1 10.7 11.3
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2023 January 9.2 67.9 9.7 13.2 -0.4
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2023 February 14.9 62.5 7.8 14.8 7.1
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2023 March 5.6 69.2 6.2 19.0 -0.6
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2023 April 13.3 62.2 8.3 16.2 4.9
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2023 May 12.4 66.2 2.2 19.2 10.2
C Manufacturing Fryslân (PV) 2023 June 9.1 61.8 7.1 22.0 1.9
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2022 July 8.4 64.3 5.3 22.0 3.1
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2022 August 10.0 63.4 6.7 19.9 3.3
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2022 September 13.2 60.1 7.0 19.7 6.2
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2022 October 11.0 64.0 2.9 22.1 8.2
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2022 November 14.9 55.0 10.0 20.1 4.9
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2022 December 14.5 55.2 8.7 21.6 5.8
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2023 January 19.7 66.4 4.6 9.3 15.2
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2023 February 19.2 65.8 6.1 8.9 13.1
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2023 March 17.2 61.8 11.8 9.2 5.5
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2023 April 22.0 62.9 5.9 9.2 16.1
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2023 May 22.2 67.0 1.6 9.2 20.6
C Manufacturing Drenthe (PV) 2023 June 26.4 62.9 1.5 9.2 25.0
C Manufacturing Overijssel (PV) 2022 July 16.9 63.1 7.4 12.6 9.5
C Manufacturing Overijssel (PV) 2022 August 17.5 60.7 8.4 13.4 9.1
C Manufacturing Overijssel (PV) 2022 September 16.3 62.1 8.2 13.4 8.1
C Manufacturing Overijssel (PV) 2022 October 20.8 63.3 4.2 11.7 16.5
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Dataset is not available.


The purpose of this table is to provide current information on the opinions of Dutch producers about performance, expectations and assessment concerning their enterprises. The survey covers enterprises in commercial services, retail trade and manufacturing industry. The Business sentiment survey makes it possible to indicate turning points
in sentiment at an early stage. In this way a change in the trend of economic activity of Dutch companies is available at a early stage. The questions put to the companies relate to production,sales, prices, orders, stocks, investment, competitiveness,economic climate, workforce and the factors limiting production. In answering the questions relating to developments in the past three months and expectations for the next tree months, the enterpreneurs are asked for a comparison with the preceding period of three months.
This publication is created using co-financing by the European Commission.

Status of the figures: All data are definite.

Data available from Services: April 1992 - June 2023
Data available from Retail Trade: May 2008 - June 2023
Data available from Industry: February 1989 - June 2023

Changes as of 27 July 2023;
This table has been discontinued. The reason for this is that the results of this table have been moved to other, new tables in which the results comply with the stricter confidentiality rules due to an adjusted industry classification.

When will new figures be published?
Not applicable.
This table is followed by Business survey Netherlands; to regions (active on August 15, 2023). See paragraph 3.

Description topics

Assessment of finished products stocks
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "We evaluate our finished products stocks / commodities, given the
expected market development, as a (too) large, normal or (too) small?
Stocks finished products (too) large
Weighted response rate of producers who consider the stocks of
finished products / commodities, given the expected market development, as (too) large.
Stocks finished products normal
Weighted response rate of producers who consider the stocks of
finished products / commodities, given the expected market development, as normal.
Stocks finished products (too) small
Weighted response rate of producers who consider the stocks of
finished products / commodities, given the expected market development, as (too) small.
Not applicable
The weighted response rate of producers who who consider stocks
of finished products / commodities for their for their enterprise as not
relevant plus the weighted the rate of producers who were not asked
the question.
Balance assessment stocks
The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the stocks of
finished products / commodities are (too) large minus the rate of
producers who cosider the stocks are (too) small.
This balance represents compared to the previous balances in relation
to the expected sales development, the current assessment of satisfaction of the producers about their stocks of finished products.