Business survey Netherlands; to company size

Business survey Netherlands; to company size

Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Company size Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Competitive position Dutch market Competitive position improved (%) Competitive position Dutch market Competitive position remained unchanged (%) Competitive position Dutch market Competitive position declined (%) Competitive position Dutch market Not applicable (%) Competitive position Dutch market Balance competitive position (%)
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 9.9 76.9 3.3 9.9 6.6
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 10.7 67.0 9.9 12.4 0.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 11.0 63.9 13.5 11.6 -2.4
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 8.2 76.0 7.0 8.8 1.1
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 5.8 71.2 0.8 6.0 1.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 7.2 61.1 6.0 8.3 -4.8
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 6.9 57.8 9.0 7.5 -9.1
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 4.7 70.3 3.5 4.9 -4.2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 14.0 82.6 5.8 13.8 11.5
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 14.2 72.9 13.8 16.5 6.2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 15.1 70.0 18.0 15.7 4.3
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 or more employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 11.7 81.7 10.5 12.7 6.4
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 9.0 76.3 3.7 11.0 5.3
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 9.3 67.8 10.6 12.3 -1.4
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 10.5 62.2 14.4 12.9 -3.9
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 7.9 75.1 7.3 9.7 0.6
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 4.7 69.6 0.6 6.1 -0.2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 5.8 60.9 5.7 7.4 -7.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 6.0 54.8 8.7 7.6 -11.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 3.6 68.0 3.0 4.6 -5.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 13.3 83.0 6.8 15.9 10.8
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 12.8 74.7 15.5 17.2 4.9
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 15.0 69.6 20.1 18.2 3.9
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 5 to 50 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 12.2 82.2 11.6 14.8 6.9
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 10.9 78.2 2.9 8.0 8.0
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 12.1 68.7 7.9 11.3 4.2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 16.3 63.5 12.1 8.1 4.2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 10.7 77.5 5.6 6.2 5.2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 0.0 61.5 0.0 0.0 -8.3
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 September . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 October 0.0 51.5 0.0 0.5 -12.9
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 November . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 December . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 January 1.2 47.8 0.3 3.0 -17.8
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 February . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 March . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 April 0.0 64.2 0.0 2.1 -9.1
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 May . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 June . . . . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 July 25.6 94.9 9.2 16.2 24.3
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 50 to 250 employed persons Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2023 August . . . . .
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Dataset is not available.


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 survey is aimed at gaining insight into the current situation, future development and the 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 the Dutch enterprises. Data are broken down by main business activities (SIC 2008) and size- classes. 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 2015

Status of the figures: All figures are definitive.

Changes as of May 16th 2024:
Figures of April 2024 have been added.

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 May are expected to be published the 30th of May 2024.

Description topics

Competitive position
The weighted response rates to the quarterly questions:
- "Has the competitive position of the enterprise on the domestic market improved, remained unchanged or declined in the last three months?"
- "Has the competitive position of the enterprise on the foreign market within the EU improved, remained unchanged or declined in the last three months?"
- "Has the competitive position of the enterprise on the foreign market outside the EU improved, remained unchanged or declined in the last three months?"
Dutch market
The weighted response rates to the quarterly question:
- "Has the competitive position of the enterprise on the domestic market improved, remained unchanged or declined in the last three months?"
Competitive position improved
Weighted response rate of producers who reported that the competitive position of the enterprise on the domestic market has improved.
Competitive position remained unchanged
Weighted response rate of producers who reported that the competitive position of the enterprise on the domestic market remained unchanged.
Competitive position declined
Weighted response rate of producers who reported that the competitive position of the enterprise on the domestic market has declined.
Not applicable
The weighted response rate of producers who consider that the competitive position on the domestic market is not relevant for their enterprise plus the weighted response rate of producers who were not asked the question.
Balance competitive position
The weighted response rate of producers reporting that their competitive position on the domestic market has improved in a particular quarter minus the rate reporting that their position has declined. This balance reflects the development of the domestic competitive position in a particular quarter compared with the previous quarter.