Business survey Netherlands; to company size
| Sector/branches (SIC 2008) | Company size | Margins | Seasonal adjustment | Periods | Factors limiting production Labour shortage (%) | 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 (%) |
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| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 40.8 | 9.4 | 78.7 | 5.0 | 6.9 | 4.5 |
| 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 | 40.6 | 8.2 | 80.3 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 2.9 |
| 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 | 39.7 | 7.1 | 80.1 | 7.1 | 5.7 | 0.0 |
| 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 | 35.3 | 10.1 | 77.1 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 3.6 |
| 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 | 39.2 | 8.4 | 77.3 | 4.4 | 6.1 | 3.3 |
| 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 | 39.0 | 7.4 | 79.1 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 1.7 |
| 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 | 38.1 | 6.3 | 78.9 | 6.3 | 4.9 | -1.2 |
| 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 | 33.7 | 8.9 | 75.7 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 2.2 |
| 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 | 42.4 | 10.4 | 80.1 | 5.6 | 7.7 | 5.7 |
| 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 | 42.2 | 9.0 | 81.5 | 6.2 | 6.9 | 4.1 |
| 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 | 41.3 | 7.9 | 81.3 | 7.9 | 6.5 | 1.2 |
| 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 | 36.9 | 11.3 | 78.5 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 5.0 |
| 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 | 36.6 | 8.3 | 75.8 | 6.4 | 9.5 | 1.8 |
| 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 | 36.7 | 7.2 | 77.7 | 6.7 | 8.4 | 0.5 |
| 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 | 36.8 | 6.1 | 77.3 | 8.9 | 7.7 | -2.9 |
| 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 | 32.4 | 9.0 | 75.0 | 7.2 | 8.8 | 1.7 |
| 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 | 34.1 | 6.7 | 73.4 | 5.0 | 7.7 | -0.4 |
| 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 | 34.2 | 5.8 | 75.3 | 5.3 | 6.6 | -1.5 |
| 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 | 34.3 | 4.9 | 74.9 | 7.3 | 6.1 | -4.9 |
| 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 | 29.9 | 7.4 | 72.5 | 5.8 | 7.0 | -0.5 |
| 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 | 39.1 | 9.9 | 78.2 | 7.8 | 11.3 | 4.0 |
| 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 | 39.2 | 8.6 | 80.1 | 8.1 | 10.2 | 2.5 |
| 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 | 39.3 | 7.3 | 79.7 | 10.5 | 9.3 | -0.9 |
| 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 | 34.9 | 10.6 | 77.5 | 8.6 | 10.6 | 3.9 |
| 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 | 40.8 | 10.0 | 78.7 | 4.8 | 6.5 | 5.3 |
| 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 | 42.4 | 7.9 | 80.6 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 2.1 |
| 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 | 38.6 | 7.4 | 79.0 | 8.3 | 5.3 | -1.0 |
| 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 | 34.0 | 10.0 | 77.5 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 3.6 |
| 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 | 37.7 | 8.0 | 76.2 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 2.9 |
| 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 | 39.5 | 6.1 | 78.2 | 4.4 | 4.3 | -0.1 |
| 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 | 35.3 | 5.8 | 76.3 | 6.5 | 3.7 | -3.5 |
| 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 | 30.7 | 7.8 | 74.6 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 1.1 |
| 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 | 43.9 | 12.0 | 81.2 | 6.0 | 8.1 | 7.7 |
| 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 | 45.3 | 9.7 | 83.0 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 4.3 |
| 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
- Factors limiting production
- The weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our production/business experience barriers:
1 - no barriers,
2 - insufficient demand,
3 - shortage of labour force,
4 - shortages of production equipment, materials, commodities, (retail) space,
5 - financial constraints,
6 - weather conditions,
7 - other causes?"- Labour shortage
- Weighted response rate of producers at the beginning of the quarter indicating that shortage of labour force is a barrier for their
activities.
- 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.