Business survey Netherlands; to regions

Business survey Netherlands; to regions

Regions Sector/branches (SBI 2008) Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity past three months Production/activity has increased (%) Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity next three months Production/activity will increase (%) Turnover and selling prices Turnover last three months Turnover has increased (%) Turnover and selling prices Turnover next three months Turnover will increase (%) Turnover and selling prices Turnover next year Turnover will increase (%) Turnover and selling prices Foreign turnover last three months Foreign turnover has increased (%) Turnover and selling prices Foreign turnover next three months Foreign turnover will increase (%) Turnover and selling prices Foreign turnover next year Foreign turnover will increase (%) Turnover and selling prices Selling prices/rates next three months Selling prices/rates will increase (%) Orders (intake and placed) Value of orders received last 3 months Order intake increased (%) Orders (intake and placed) Value of orders expected next 3 months Order intake will increase (%) Orders (intake and placed) Value of export orders next 3 months Export orders will increase (%) Orders (intake and placed) Orders placed next three months Purchase orders will increase (%) Orders (intake and placed) Increase of activity by expansion demand Yes (%) Orders (intake and placed) Increase of activity by expansion demand Increase in volume of activity (%) Workforce Workforce last three months Workforce has increased (%) Workforce Workforce next three months Workforce will increase (%) Workforce Workforce next year Workforce will increase (%) Expectations investments Expectations investments current year Investments will increase (%)
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 April . . 22.2 29.3 . . . . . . . . 19.7 . . 16.1 20.9 . 19.0
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 July . . 32.8 15.5 . . . . . . . . 12.1 . . 15.6 13.3 . 14.9
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 October . . 16.6 19.8 22.5 . . . . . . . 12.2 . . 10.8 12.1 11.8 21.2
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 January . . 38.2 13.4 . . . . . . . . 12.3 . . 14.5 13.8 . 14.3
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April . . 13.6 19.9 . . . . . . . . 11.1 . . 9.4 13.3 . 11.0
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July . . 23.6 8.1 . . . . . . . . 5.0 . . 8.3 6.6 . 9.4
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October . . 8.0 12.2 15.2 . . . . . . . 6.3 . . 5.3 7.2 5.9 9.8
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January . . 30.2 8.1 . . . . . . . . 7.8 . . 6.3 6.2 . 8.0
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April . . 30.8 38.7 . . . . . . . . 28.3 . . 22.8 28.5 . 27.0
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July . . 42.0 22.9 . . . . . . . . 19.2 . . 22.9 20.0 . 20.4
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October . . 25.2 27.4 29.8 . . . . . . . 18.1 . . 16.3 17.0 17.7 32.6
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January . . 46.2 18.7 . . . . . . . . 16.8 . . 22.7 21.4 . 20.6
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) All enterprises (no finance or energy) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 April . . 23.9 30.7 . . . . . . . . 19.8 . . 14.8 21.6 . 20.7
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.2 . . . 16.0 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.9 . . . 12.5 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 July . . 30.9 13.8 . . . . . . . . 8.7 . . 15.3 14.9 . 15.7
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 . . . 8.6 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.9 . . . 10.0 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 October . . 15.5 21.7 23.1 . . . . . . . 10.7 . . 10.3 11.0 13.2 24.3
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 . . . 7.2 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.6 . . . 9.7 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 January . . 38.6 11.9 . . . . . . . . 10.2 . . 18.1 10.6 . 13.3
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.8 . . . 13.4 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.5 . . . 14.9 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April . . 14.1 20.1 . . . . . . . . 10.0 . . 7.5 13.0 . 11.5
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 . . . 6.6 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.7 . . . 3.9 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July . . 20.3 5.6 . . . . . . . . 1.1 . . 7.1 7.5 . 9.4
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 . . . 3.9 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 . . . 5.1 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October . . 6.1 13.1 15.3 . . . . . . . 4.4 . . 5.0 5.9 6.5 11.4
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 . . . 3.5 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.8 . . . 5.0 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January . . 29.2 5.8 . . . . . . . . 5.1 . . 8.5 1.6 . 6.0
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.9 . . . 3.6 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5 . . . 7.6 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 April . . 33.7 41.3 . . . . . . . . 29.6 . . 22.1 30.2 . 29.9
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.8 . . . 25.4 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1 . . . 21.1 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July . . 41.5 22.0 . . . . . . . . 16.3 . . 23.5 22.3 . 22.0
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.4 . . . 13.3 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.7 . . . 14.9 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October . . 24.9 30.3 30.9 . . . . . . . 17.0 . . 15.6 16.1 19.9 37.2
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.3 . . . 10.9 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.4 . . . 14.4 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January . . 48.0 18.0 . . . . . . . . 15.3 . . 27.7 19.6 . 20.6
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.7 . . . 23.2 . .
Drenthe (PV) C Industry, H-S services and 45+47 Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.5 . . . 22.2 . .
Source: CBS.
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This table provides up-to-date information about the opinions held by Dutch entrepreneurs on their achievements, expectations and judgments regarding their business. This panel 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 region. 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.

The aggregation ‘all enterprises (no finance or energy)’ includes all available branches questioned in the Business Survey Netherlands. Because not every branch is questioned monthly, this aggregation will only have data available for the first month of each quarter. The aggregation ‘C industry, H-S services and 45+47’ includes all monthly questioned branches and serves as a subtotal of the monthly questionnaire.

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

Production and capacity utilisation
The weighted response rates to the questions:
- "The level of production/activity in the last three months has increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "The level of production/activity in the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "The occupation/use of our available production capacity is currently around ...%"
- "We assess the current production capacity, given the expected market development as (too) large, normal or (too) small?"
Production/activity past three months
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The level of production/activity in the last three months, has increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
Production/activity has increased
The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the production/activity in the last three months has increased.
Production/activity next three months
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The level of production/activity in the next three month will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Production/activity will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect the production/activity in the next three months will increase.
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 last three months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our total turnover/marketing in the last three months increased remained unchanged or decreased?"
Turnover has increased
The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the turnover in the last three months has increased.
Turnover next three months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our total turnover over the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Turnover will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect turnover to increase in the next three months.
Turnover next year
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our total turnover in the next year will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Turnover will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect turnover to increase in the next year.
Foreign turnover last three months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our foreign turnover / marketing in the last three months increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
Foreign turnover has increased
The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the foreign turnover in the last three months has increased.
Foreign turnover next three months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our foreign turnover over the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Foreign turnover will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect foreign turnover to increase in the next three months.
Foreign turnover next year
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our foreign turnover in the next year will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Foreign turnover will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect foreign turnover to increase in the next year.
Selling prices/rates next three months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our selling prices/rates over the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Selling prices/rates will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect selling prices/rates in the next three months will increase.
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?"
Value of orders received last 3 months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "The value of total orders received in the last three months has increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
Order intake increased
Weighted response rate of producers indicating that the value of the orders received in the last three months has increased.
Value of orders expected next 3 months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "The value of the intake of orders in the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Order intake will increase
Weighted response rate of producers indicating that the value of the intake of orders will increase in the next three months.
Value of export orders next 3 months
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "The value of the total export orders received in the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Export orders will increase
Weighted response rate of producers indicating the export orders will increase in the next three months.
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?"
Purchase orders will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect the value of the purchase orders in the next three months will increase.
Increase of activity by expansion demand
Weighted response rates to the question:
- "If the demand expanded, could you increase your volume of activity with your present resources? Yes/No? If so, by how much?"
Yes
The weighted percentage of entrepreneurs who answered yes to the question if they could increase the volume of their activity with the present resources when demand expanded.
Increase in volume of activity
The percentage extent to which entrepreneurs can increase the volume of their activity with the present resources when demand expanded.
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 last three months
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The workforce in the last three months has increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
Workforce has increased
Weighted response rate of producers indicating that workforce for their business in the last three months has increased.
Workforce next three months
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The workforce will in the next three months increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Workforce will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect the workforce for the company over the next three months will increase.
Workforce next year
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The workforce will in the next year increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Workforce will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect the workforce for the company will increase in the next year.
Expectations investments
The weighted response rates to the questions:
- "The investments in the current year will increase, remain the same, decrease compared with the previous year."
- "The investments next year will increase, remain unchanged or decrease, compared with the current year?"
Expectations investments current year
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The investments in the current year will increase, remain unchanged or decrease, compared with the previous year?"
Investments will increase
Weighted response rate of producers who expect the investments will increase in the current year, compared with last years investments.