Business survey Netherlands; to sector/branches

Business survey Netherlands; to sector/branches

Sector/branches (SBI 2008) Margin Seasonal adjustment Periods Turnover and selling prices Turnover next three months Balance turnover next three months (%) Orders (intake and placed) Orders placed next three months Balance purchase orders (%) Workforce Workforce next three months Balance workforce next three months (%)
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 April 44.8 42.1 35.3
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 May 32.4 24.7 18.3
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 June 14.5 19.3 20.7
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 0.4 8.9 6.1
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 August 2.0 6.3 -2.9
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 September -11.6 -9.1 -13.5
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 October -23.0 -11.7 -8.9
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 November -29.6 -19.2 -9.6
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 December -30.4 -21.0 -11.8
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 January -27.1 -6.5 0.6
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 February 18.6 19.8 15.9
I Accommodation and food serving Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 March 29.9 23.5 20.8
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April 35.2 34.1 26.3
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May 22.8 17.1 9.1
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June 2.7 10.7 11.5
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July -10.0 0.3 -1.3
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August -6.2 -1.1 -11.1
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September -22.6 -18.7 -23.1
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October -35.3 -22.1 -18.3
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November -39.2 -27.8 -17.4
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December -40.0 -30.6 -18.7
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January -36.9 -16.9 -7.4
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February 7.4 10.2 6.5
I Accommodation and food serving Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March 19.7 14.3 12.8
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April 54.4 50.1 44.3
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May 42.0 32.3 27.5
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June 26.3 27.9 29.9
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 10.8 17.5 13.5
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August 10.2 13.7 5.3
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September -0.6 0.5 -3.9
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October -10.7 -1.3 0.5
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November -20.0 -10.6 -1.8
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December -20.8 -11.4 -4.9
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January -17.3 3.9 8.6
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February 29.8 29.4 25.3
I Accommodation and food serving Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March 40.1 32.7 28.8
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 April 72.4 50.2 45.9
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 May 61.8 36.6 30.5
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 June 25.0 27.9 34.4
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 July -1.1 10.2 23.7
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 August -9.4 -2.1 1.6
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 September -16.6 -9.4 -7.6
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 October -30.0 -25.2 -3.3
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 November -46.9 -28.7 -13.3
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 December -47.6 -43.3 -12.3
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 January -24.6 -14.5 -1.8
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 February 47.0 36.7 23.6
55 Accommodation Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 March 52.3 38.3 34.7
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April 62.4 38.6 34.1
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May 51.0 25.6 20.7
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June 11.5 14.4 22.8
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July -15.6 -1.6 13.3
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August -23.1 -14.8 -9.8
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September -31.1 -21.4 -17.4
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October -43.9 -37.9 -14.1
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November -59.2 -41.6 -22.7
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December -59.2 -55.1 -23.5
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January -39.9 -29.2 -11.4
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February 33.5 24.0 12.6
55 Accommodation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March 40.0 26.7 24.3
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April 82.4 61.8 57.7
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May 72.6 47.6 40.3
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June 38.5 41.4 46.0
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 13.4 22.0 34.1
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August 4.3 10.6 13.0
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September -2.1 2.6 2.2
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October -16.1 -12.5 7.5
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November -34.6 -15.8 -3.9
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December -36.0 -31.5 -1.1
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January -9.3 0.2 7.8
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February 60.5 49.4 34.6
55 Accommodation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March 64.6 49.9 45.1
Source: CBS.
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This table provides up-to-date information, including uncertainty margins, about the opinions held by Dutch entrepreneurs on their achievements, expectations and judgments regarding their business. This panel survey is aimed at gaining insight into the current situation, future development and judgments of Dutch enterprises. As a result it is possible to detect turning points in optimism or pessimism at an early stage, providing an early indication of possible trend changes in the economic activities of Dutch enterprises. Data are broken down by main business activity (SITC 2008). The questions submitted to the entrepreneurs at the beginning of a quarter concern output, turnover, prices, order books, stocks, investments, competitive position, economic climate, staff size and the obstacles they have encountered. In answering the questions relating to developments in the past three months and expectations for the next three months, the entrepreneurs are asked for a comparison with the preceding period of three months.

Data available from: January 2012

Status of the figures: All 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.

Data from October 2023 for sector F Construction has been corrected, which has led to small changes in all aggregations that include this sector for that period.

Changes as of March 7th 2024:
Due to a technical issue most figures of February 2024 were divided by 100. This now has been corrected.

When will new figures be published?
Figures of April are expected to be published the 16th of May 2024.

Description topics

Turnover and selling prices
The weighted response rates to the questions:
- "Our turnover/marketing in the last three months increased remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "Our turnover/marketing in the next three months will grow, remain unchanged or decrease?"

Weighted response rates to the questions:
- "Our total turnover will increase in the next year, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "Our foreign turnover/marketing in the last three months increased remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "Our foreign turnover will increase over the next three months, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "Our foreign turnover will increase in the next year, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "Our selling prices/rates over the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Turnover next three months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our total turnover over the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Balance turnover next three months
The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase in turnover minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease in turnover. This balance shows the expected development of turnover in the next three months.
Orders (intake and placed)
The weighted response rates to the questions:
- "The value of the total orders received in the last three months increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "The value of the intake of orders in the next three months will increase, remaine unchanged or decrease?"
- "The value of the intake of export orders in the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "The value of the orders we expect to place with suppliers in the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "The total order book shows - during normal working hours - ... months of work?"
- "The total order position, we assess, given the time of year as (too) large, normal or (too) small?"
- "The foreign order books, we assess, given the time of the years, as (too) large, normal or (too) small?"
Orders placed next three months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "The value of the orders we expect to place with suppliers in the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Balance purchase orders
The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase of purchase orders minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease. This balance provides insight into the expected evolution of purchase orders in the next three months.
Workforce
The weighted response rates to the questions:
- "The workforce in the last three months has increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "The workforce will in the next three months increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "The workforce will in the next year increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Workforce next three months
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The workforce will in the next three months increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Balance workforce next three months
The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase in workforce minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease in workforce in the next three months. This balance provides insight into the development of the workforce in the next three months.