Business survey Netherlands; to company size
| Sector/branches (SIC 2008) | Company size | Margins | Seasonal adjustment | Periods | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity past three months Production/activity has increased (%) | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity past three months Production/activity remained unchanged (%) | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity past three months Production/activity has decreased (%) | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity past three months Balance production last three months (%) | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity next three months Production/activity will increase (%) | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity next three months Production/activity will be unchanged (%) | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity next three months Production/activity will decrease (%) | Production and capacity utilisation Production/activity next three months Balance production next three months (%) | 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 (%) | Factors limiting production None (%) | Factors limiting production Insufficient demand (%) | Factors limiting production Labour shortage (%) | Factors limiting production Shortage of material and/or equipment (%) | Factors limiting production Financial constraints (%) | Factors limiting production Weather (%) | Factors limiting production Other factors (%) |
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| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 17.7 | 65.7 | 16.6 | 1.1 | 20.3 | 71.5 | 8.2 | 12.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 16.4 | 66.1 | 17.5 | -1.1 | 22.7 | 70.2 | 7.1 | 15.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 15.7 | 69.3 | 15.0 | 0.8 | 19.6 | 72.2 | 8.2 | 11.4 | . | . | 34.4 | 24.5 | 31.8 | 13.5 | 8.2 | 1.2 | 9.1 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 17.0 | 69.9 | 13.1 | 4.0 | 19.5 | 68.5 | 12.0 | 7.4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 16.6 | 72.2 | 11.2 | 5.4 | 14.5 | 71.6 | 13.9 | 0.5 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 18.3 | 69.3 | 12.4 | 5.9 | 13.2 | 70.8 | 16.0 | -2.8 | . | . | 31.6 | 26.1 | 30.7 | 9.9 | 10.4 | 2.1 | 13.1 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 12.7 | 71.1 | 16.2 | -3.5 | 15.6 | 75.7 | 8.7 | 6.8 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 12.0 | 68.8 | 19.2 | -7.2 | 23.6 | 68.1 | 8.3 | 15.3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 14.3 | 67.8 | 17.9 | -3.6 | 22.3 | 67.8 | 9.9 | 12.5 | . | . | 30.2 | 30.4 | 25.8 | 8.0 | 9.9 | 0.7 | 13.0 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 19.5 | 67.9 | 12.6 | 6.8 | 17.4 | 70.5 | 12.1 | 5.2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 20.0 | 66.4 | 13.6 | 6.4 | 13.9 | 73.6 | 12.5 | 1.3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 22.5 | 64.4 | 13.1 | 9.4 | 18.7 | 71.5 | 9.8 | 8.8 | . | . | 33.8 | 26.9 | 26.2 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 2.9 | 13.2 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 16.1 | 63.5 | 14.8 | -1.4 | 18.5 | 69.3 | 6.8 | 9.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 14.8 | 63.9 | 15.7 | -3.6 | 20.7 | 68.0 | 5.9 | 13.2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 13.9 | 66.9 | 13.2 | -1.9 | 17.8 | 70.0 | 6.6 | 8.9 | . | . | 32.0 | 22.3 | 29.6 | 12.1 | 6.6 | 0.6 | 7.5 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 15.2 | 67.9 | 11.5 | 1.5 | 17.7 | 66.5 | 10.4 | 4.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 14.8 | 70.0 | 9.6 | 2.9 | 12.7 | 69.4 | 12.1 | -2.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 16.5 | 67.3 | 11.0 | 3.5 | 11.6 | 68.6 | 14.2 | -5.2 | . | . | 29.6 | 24.1 | 28.5 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 11.7 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 11.1 | 68.9 | 14.4 | -6.0 | 14.0 | 73.7 | 7.3 | 4.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 10.6 | 66.6 | 17.4 | -9.7 | 21.8 | 65.9 | 7.1 | 12.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 12.7 | 65.8 | 16.1 | -6.1 | 20.5 | 65.8 | 8.5 | 10.1 | . | . | 28.2 | 28.4 | 23.8 | 6.8 | 8.5 | 0.3 | 11.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 17.7 | 65.9 | 11.0 | 4.3 | 15.6 | 68.5 | 10.7 | 2.8 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 18.2 | 64.2 | 12.0 | 3.9 | 12.3 | 71.6 | 11.1 | -1.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 20.7 | 62.2 | 11.5 | 6.9 | 16.9 | 69.3 | 8.4 | 6.3 | . | . | 31.6 | 24.9 | 24.0 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 1.9 | 11.8 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 19.3 | 67.9 | 18.4 | 3.6 | 22.1 | 73.7 | 9.6 | 14.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 18.0 | 68.3 | 19.3 | 1.4 | 24.7 | 72.4 | 8.3 | 18.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 17.5 | 71.7 | 16.8 | 3.5 | 21.4 | 74.4 | 9.8 | 13.9 | . | . | 36.8 | 26.7 | 34.0 | 14.9 | 9.8 | 1.8 | 10.7 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 18.8 | 71.9 | 14.7 | 6.5 | 21.3 | 70.5 | 13.6 | 9.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 18.4 | 74.4 | 12.8 | 7.9 | 16.3 | 73.8 | 15.7 | 3.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 20.1 | 71.3 | 13.8 | 8.3 | 14.8 | 73.0 | 17.8 | -0.4 | . | . | 33.6 | 28.1 | 32.9 | 10.9 | 11.8 | 2.7 | 14.5 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 14.3 | 73.3 | 18.0 | -1.0 | 17.2 | 77.7 | 10.1 | 9.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 13.4 | 71.0 | 21.0 | -4.7 | 25.4 | 70.3 | 9.5 | 17.7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 15.9 | 69.8 | 19.7 | -1.1 | 24.1 | 69.8 | 11.3 | 14.9 | . | . | 32.2 | 32.4 | 27.8 | 9.2 | 11.3 | 1.1 | 14.4 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 21.3 | 69.9 | 14.2 | 9.3 | 19.2 | 72.5 | 13.5 | 7.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 21.8 | 68.6 | 15.2 | 8.9 | 15.5 | 75.6 | 13.9 | 3.7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 24.3 | 66.6 | 14.7 | 11.9 | 20.5 | 73.7 | 11.2 | 11.3 | . | . | 36.0 | 28.9 | 28.4 | 11.2 | 11.0 | 3.9 | 14.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 16.7 | 64.9 | 18.4 | -1.6 | 20.1 | 68.9 | 11.0 | 9.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 15.1 | 67.1 | 17.8 | -2.7 | 23.7 | 69.5 | 6.8 | 16.8 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 17.5 | 66.8 | 15.7 | 1.8 | 18.4 | 72.6 | 9.0 | 9.4 | . | . | 34.7 | 22.6 | 34.5 | 9.2 | 10.4 | 2.1 | 10.0 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 19.8 | 65.6 | 14.6 | 5.2 | 17.1 | 68.4 | 14.5 | 2.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 18.8 | 68.6 | 12.6 | 6.3 | 14.9 | 69.1 | 16.0 | -1.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 17.8 | 69.0 | 13.2 | 4.6 | 11.3 | 69.9 | 18.8 | -7.5 | . | . | 34.1 | 22.5 | 35.3 | 8.0 | 11.5 | 2.7 | 8.8 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 12.9 | 69.4 | 17.7 | -4.9 | 13.2 | 76.2 | 10.6 | 2.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 12.1 | 68.5 | 19.4 | -7.3 | 20.3 | 69.0 | 10.7 | 9.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 13.2 | 66.5 | 20.3 | -7.1 | 20.5 | 68.4 | 11.1 | 9.4 | . | . | 32.0 | 22.9 | 33.1 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 1.6 | 9.0 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 18.0 | 66.5 | 15.5 | 2.5 | 19.1 | 68.9 | 12.0 | 7.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 20.8 | 64.3 | 14.9 | 5.9 | 15.6 | 71.6 | 12.8 | 2.7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 22.2 | 65.9 | 11.9 | 10.3 | 18.8 | 70.7 | 10.5 | 8.3 | . | . | 37.0 | 21.9 | 30.4 | 8.9 | 11.3 | 5.0 | 9.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 13.2 | 60.4 | 14.7 | -7.5 | 16.2 | 64.4 | 7.7 | 3.3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 11.8 | 62.6 | 14.1 | -8.2 | 19.6 | 65.2 | 4.3 | 11.7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 13.6 | 62.1 | 12.2 | -4.1 | 14.5 | 68.3 | 6.1 | 4.1 | . | . | 30.0 | 18.3 | 29.8 | 6.5 | 7.1 | 0.5 | 7.1 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 15.9 | 61.1 | 11.3 | -0.7 | 13.6 | 63.9 | 11.0 | -2.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 14.9 | 63.9 | 9.1 | 0.6 | 11.2 | 64.2 | 12.1 | -7.2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 14.3 | 64.7 | 9.9 | -0.5 | 8.4 | 65.4 | 15.1 | -12.8 | . | . | 29.8 | 18.6 | 30.8 | 5.3 | 8.4 | 1.1 | 6.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 9.6 | 64.9 | 14.0 | -10.2 | 10.1 | 72.1 | 7.5 | -2.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 9.0 | 64.2 | 15.9 | -12.4 | 16.6 | 64.7 | 7.8 | 4.5 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 10.1 | 62.0 | 16.6 | -12.4 | 16.6 | 63.9 | 8.2 | 4.3 | . | . | 27.7 | 18.8 | 28.6 | 6.6 | 7.2 | 0.6 | 6.1 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 14.5 | 62.0 | 12.0 | -3.0 | 15.4 | 64.6 | 9.1 | 1.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 17.1 | 59.8 | 11.6 | 0.4 | 12.3 | 67.5 | 9.7 | -2.2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 17.9 | 61.2 | 8.8 | 4.4 | 14.9 | 66.0 | 7.4 | 2.8 | . | . | 32.1 | 17.8 | 25.7 | 5.8 | 7.8 | 2.6 | 6.2 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 20.2 | 69.4 | 22.1 | 4.3 | 24.0 | 73.4 | 14.3 | 14.7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 18.4 | 71.6 | 21.5 | 2.8 | 27.8 | 73.8 | 9.3 | 21.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 21.4 | 71.5 | 19.2 | 7.7 | 22.3 | 76.9 | 11.9 | 14.7 | . | . | 39.4 | 26.9 | 39.2 | 11.9 | 13.7 | 3.7 | 12.9 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 23.7 | 70.1 | 17.9 | 11.1 | 20.6 | 72.9 | 18.0 | 8.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 22.7 | 73.3 | 16.1 | 12.0 | 18.6 | 74.0 | 19.9 | 5.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 21.3 | 73.3 | 16.5 | 9.7 | 14.2 | 74.4 | 22.5 | -2.2 | . | . | 38.4 | 26.4 | 39.8 | 10.7 | 14.6 | 4.3 | 11.3 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 16.2 | 73.9 | 21.4 | 0.4 | 16.3 | 80.3 | 13.7 | 7.3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 15.2 | 72.8 | 22.9 | -2.2 | 24.0 | 73.3 | 13.6 | 14.7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 16.3 | 71.0 | 24.0 | -1.8 | 24.4 | 72.9 | 14.0 | 14.5 | . | . | 36.3 | 27.0 | 37.6 | 12.4 | 13.0 | 2.6 | 11.9 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 21.5 | 71.0 | 19.0 | 8.0 | 22.8 | 73.2 | 14.9 | 12.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 24.5 | 68.8 | 18.2 | 11.4 | 18.9 | 75.7 | 15.9 | 7.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 26.5 | 70.6 | 15.0 | 16.2 | 22.7 | 75.4 | 13.6 | 13.8 | . | . | 41.9 | 26.0 | 35.1 | 12.0 | 14.8 | 7.4 | 12.4 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 17.0 | 65.2 | 17.8 | -0.7 | 22.5 | 67.1 | 10.4 | 12.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 15.4 | 65.4 | 19.2 | -3.8 | 25.4 | 66.1 | 8.5 | 16.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 19.4 | 65.8 | 14.8 | 4.6 | 20.6 | 70.7 | 8.7 | 11.9 | . | . | 34.6 | 25.1 | 31.3 | 10.1 | 8.5 | 1.3 | 10.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 19.9 | 66.2 | 13.9 | 6.0 | 19.4 | 67.6 | 13.0 | 6.4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 19.4 | 68.0 | 12.6 | 6.7 | 16.5 | 68.4 | 15.1 | 1.4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 19.1 | 67.2 | 13.7 | 5.4 | 13.7 | 67.8 | 18.5 | -4.7 | . | . | 32.5 | 26.2 | 34.7 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 10.2 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 14.9 | 67.9 | 17.2 | -2.3 | 17.0 | 73.5 | 9.5 | 7.5 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 12.1 | 66.5 | 21.4 | -9.3 | 24.5 | 66.2 | 9.3 | 15.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 14.9 | 65.3 | 19.8 | -4.9 | 23.9 | 66.4 | 9.7 | 14.1 | . | . | 31.0 | 27.6 | 31.8 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 1.1 | 9.7 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 19.8 | 65.7 | 14.5 | 5.3 | 19.8 | 68.2 | 12.0 | 7.8 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 22.3 | 64.4 | 13.3 | 9.0 | 15.7 | 71.1 | 13.2 | 2.5 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 20.8 | 65.4 | 13.8 | 7.0 | 20.1 | 69.4 | 10.5 | 9.7 | . | . | 33.1 | 26.7 | 30.2 | 9.5 | 11.0 | 4.3 | 9.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 14.5 | 62.1 | 15.3 | -4.6 | 19.8 | 64.0 | 8.2 | 8.4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 13.0 | 62.3 | 16.7 | -7.7 | 22.5 | 63.0 | 6.5 | 13.2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 16.7 | 62.7 | 12.4 | 0.7 | 17.9 | 67.6 | 6.7 | 8.4 | . | . | 31.5 | 22.2 | 28.2 | 8.1 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 8.4 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 17.4 | 63.3 | 11.5 | 2.3 | 16.9 | 64.7 | 10.8 | 2.7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | 16.7 | 64.9 | 10.2 | 2.8 | 14.0 | 65.3 | 12.6 | -2.5 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 16.6 | 64.3 | 11.5 | 1.9 | 11.5 | 64.9 | 16.0 | -8.4 | . | . | 29.6 | 23.5 | 31.6 | 6.2 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 8.2 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | 12.5 | 64.8 | 14.7 | -6.0 | 14.5 | 70.6 | 7.5 | 4.2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | 9.9 | 63.4 | 18.9 | -13.0 | 21.8 | 63.1 | 7.3 | 11.4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 12.5 | 62.4 | 17.3 | -8.6 | 21.2 | 63.5 | 7.9 | 10.6 | . | . | 28.1 | 24.9 | 28.9 | 6.2 | 8.0 | 0.5 | 7.7 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | 17.3 | 62.6 | 12.1 | 1.6 | 17.3 | 65.3 | 9.8 | 4.3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 December | 19.6 | 61.3 | 11.1 | 5.1 | 13.3 | 68.2 | 11.0 | -1.0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2026 January | 18.1 | 62.3 | 11.6 | 3.1 | 17.4 | 66.3 | 8.3 | 6.0 | . | . | 30.0 | 23.8 | 27.1 | 7.3 | 8.6 | 2.7 | 7.6 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | 19.5 | 68.3 | 20.3 | 3.2 | 25.2 | 70.2 | 12.6 | 15.8 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | 17.8 | 68.5 | 21.7 | 0.1 | 28.3 | 69.2 | 10.5 | 20.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 22.1 | 68.9 | 17.2 | 8.5 | 23.3 | 73.8 | 10.7 | 15.4 | . | . | 37.7 | 28.0 | 34.4 | 12.1 | 10.5 | 2.1 | 12.8 |
| C Manufacturing | 5 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | 22.4 | 69.1 | 16.3 | 9.7 | 21.9 | 70.5 | 15.2 | 10.1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Table explanation
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 2012
Status of the figures: All figures are definitive.
Changes as of February 5th 2026:
Figures of January 2026 have been added.
Figures for the months January 2012 to December 2014 have been added.
To align the topics of this table with the Dutch version, the topic folder ‘Order position’ below ‘Orders (intake and placed)’ has been removed. The topic ‘Order position in months of work in hand’ is still available and no data has been removed.
Changes as of September 4th 2025:
Corrections have been made to previously supplied data for the manufacture of metals. For this reason figures for the topics ‘Assessment of finished products stocks’ and ‘Orders placed next three months’ have been adjusted for C Manufacturing and other activities which manufacturing is part of.
When will new figures be published?
Figures of February 2026 are expected to be published the 26th of February 2026.
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 remained unchanged
- The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the production/activity in the last three months remained unchanged.
- Production/activity has decreased
- The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the production/activity in the last three months has decreased.
- Balance production last three months
- The weighted response rate of producers with increased production/activity minus the rate of producers with a decreased production. This balance shows the direction in which the production/activity in the last three months has developed.
- 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.
- Production/activity will be unchanged
- Weighted response rate of producers who expect the production/activity in the next three months will remain unchanged.
- Production/activity will decrease
- Weighted response rate of producers who expect the production/activity in the next three months will decrease.
- Balance production next three months
- The weighted response rate of producers who expect an increase in production/activity minus the weighted response rate of producers who expect a decrease in production/activity. This balance shows the direction in which the production/activity in the next three months is expected to develop.
- 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?"- 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.
- 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?"- None
- Weighted response rate of producers indicating that at the beginning of the quarter they do not experience any obstacles blocking their business activities.
- Insufficient demand
- Weighted response rate of producers at the beginning of the quarter indicating that insufficient demand is a barrier for their activities.
- 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.
- Shortage of material and/or equipment
- Weighted response rate of producers at the beginning of the quarter indicating that lack equipment or facilities/space/resources/materials is a barrier for their activities.
- Financial constraints
- Weighted response rate of producers at the beginning of the quarter indicating that finacial constraints are a barrier for their activities.
- Weather
- Weighted response rate of producers at the beginning of the quarter indicating that weather conditions is a limiting factor to meet the demand.
- Other factors
- Weighted response rate of producers at the beginning of the quarter indicating that other obstacles (like: to encounter strikes, work stoppages, penalties and the like) are a barrier for their activities.