Business survey Netherlands; to company size
| Sector/branches (SIC 2008) | Company size | Margins | Seasonal adjustment | Periods | Expectations investments Expectations investments current year Investments will increase (%) | Expectations investments Expectations investments current year Investments will remain unchanged (%) | Expectations investments Expectations investments current year Investments will decrease (%) | Expectations investments Expectations investments current year Balance investments current year (%) | Expectations investments Expectations investments next year Investments will increase (%) | Expectations investments Expectations investments next year Investments will remain unchanged (%) | Expectations investments Expectations investments next year Investments will decrease (%) | Expectations investments Expectations investments next year Balance investments next year (%) |
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| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 20.0 | 66.1 | 13.9 | 6.1 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 16.8 | 67.3 | 15.9 | 0.9 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 19.7 | 65.3 | 15.0 | 4.7 | 18.6 | 67.0 | 14.4 | 4.3 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 16.8 | 66.9 | 16.3 | 0.6 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 18.8 | 64.7 | 12.9 | 4.3 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 15.6 | 65.9 | 14.7 | -0.9 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 18.5 | 63.9 | 13.8 | 2.9 | 17.4 | 65.6 | 13.2 | 2.5 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 15.4 | 65.3 | 15.1 | -1.4 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 21.2 | 67.5 | 14.9 | 7.9 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 18.0 | 68.7 | 17.1 | 2.7 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 20.9 | 66.7 | 16.2 | 6.5 | 19.8 | 68.4 | 15.6 | 6.1 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 18.2 | 68.5 | 17.5 | 2.6 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 16.3 | 68.3 | 15.4 | 0.9 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 13.5 | 68.7 | 17.8 | -4.3 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 14.8 | 67.8 | 17.4 | -2.6 | 14.1 | 68.2 | 17.7 | -3.6 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 13.0 | 68.8 | 18.2 | -5.1 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 14.3 | 65.9 | 13.6 | -2.0 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 11.7 | 66.3 | 15.8 | -7.2 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 12.8 | 65.4 | 15.4 | -5.7 | 12.5 | 65.8 | 15.5 | -6.5 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 11.2 | 66.3 | 16.0 | -8.2 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 18.3 | 70.7 | 17.2 | 3.8 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 15.3 | 71.1 | 19.8 | -1.4 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 16.8 | 70.2 | 19.4 | 0.5 | 15.7 | 70.6 | 19.9 | -0.7 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 14.8 | 71.3 | 20.4 | -2.0 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 20.4 | 63.2 | 16.4 | 4.0 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 18.6 | 63.7 | 17.7 | 0.9 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 19.2 | 64.1 | 16.7 | 2.5 | 18.6 | 66.1 | 15.3 | 3.3 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 18.0 | 66.4 | 15.6 | 2.5 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 17.9 | 60.1 | 14.0 | 0.1 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 16.1 | 60.8 | 15.5 | -2.8 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 16.5 | 61.0 | 14.5 | -1.2 | 16.1 | 63.2 | 12.9 | -0.6 |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 15.5 | 63.3 | 13.2 | -1.2 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 22.9 | 66.3 | 18.8 | 7.9 | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 21.1 | 66.6 | 19.9 | 4.6 | . | . | . | . |
| 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 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 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
- 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.
- Investments will remain unchanged
- Weighted response rate of producers who expect the investments in the current year will remain the same, compared with last years investments.
- Investments will decrease
- Weighted response rate of producers who expect the investments in the current year will decrease, compared with last years investments.
- Balance investments current year
- The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase in investments minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease in investments in the current year, compared with last years investments. This balance provides insight into the development of investments in the current year.
- Expectations investments next year
- The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The investments next year will increase, remain unchanged or decrease, compared with the current year?"- Investments will increase
- Weighted response rate of producers who expect the investments in the next year will increase, compared with the current year.
- Investments will remain unchanged
- Weighted response rate of producers who expect the investments in the next year will remain the same, compared with the current year.
- Investments will decrease
- Weighted response rate of producers who expect the investments in the next year will decrease, compared with the current year.
- Balance investments next year
- The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase in investments minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease in investments in the next year, compared with the current year. This balance provides insight into the development of investments in the next year.