Business survey Netherlands; to company size
| Sector/branches (SIC 2008) | Company size | Margins | Seasonal adjustment | Periods | Turnover and selling prices Turnover next three months Balance turnover next three months (%) | Orders (intake and placed) Orders placed next three months Balance purchase orders (%) | Workforce Workforce next three months Balance workforce next three months (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 31.4 | 12.3 | 25.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 22.4 | 4.2 | 18.2 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 15.3 | 7.0 | 12.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 6.3 | 0.9 | 11.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | 7.4 | 6.0 | 15.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | 1.0 | -0.2 | 5.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 1.2 | -1.7 | -0.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | 0.9 | -3.2 | 4.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | -3.5 | -1.8 | 15.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 3.9 | 0.6 | 16.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | 11.9 | 2.8 | 19.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | 19.3 | 11.5 | 26.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 22.2 | 4.5 | 16.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 13.4 | -3.6 | 9.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 6.5 | -0.4 | 5.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | -2.5 | -5.2 | 4.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | -2.2 | -0.9 | 7.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | -8.4 | -7.5 | -1.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | -8.2 | -9.3 | -8.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | -7.9 | -11.2 | -3.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | -12.1 | -9.6 | 7.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | -2.8 | -4.7 | 9.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | 4.1 | -2.5 | 12.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | 11.3 | 5.8 | 19.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 40.6 | 20.1 | 33.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 31.4 | 12.0 | 26.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 24.1 | 14.4 | 19.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 15.1 | 7.0 | 17.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | 17.0 | 12.9 | 23.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | 10.4 | 7.1 | 13.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 10.6 | 5.9 | 8.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | 9.7 | 4.8 | 11.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | 5.1 | 6.0 | 23.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 10.6 | 5.9 | 22.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | 19.7 | 8.1 | 25.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 or more employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | 27.3 | 17.2 | 33.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 28.2 | 14.1 | 24.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 20.8 | 8.2 | 13.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 7.9 | 5.7 | 11.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 2.3 | -2.0 | 4.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | 3.8 | 4.3 | 5.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | -0.5 | -6.7 | -0.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | -7.9 | -5.0 | -5.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | -4.3 | -6.1 | -1.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | -13.3 | -5.6 | 13.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 1.6 | -0.3 | 13.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | 14.3 | 7.0 | 17.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | 19.2 | 14.8 | 21.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 13.9 | 2.3 | 10.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 6.9 | -4.3 | 0.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | -5.2 | -6.1 | 0.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | -11.4 | -11.4 | -6.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | -9.9 | -6.3 | -7.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | -15.4 | -18.3 | -11.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | -20.8 | -16.2 | -17.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | -17.6 | -18.1 | -11.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | -27.6 | -16.8 | -0.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | -9.6 | -8.1 | 3.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | 3.3 | -1.8 | 8.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | 7.6 | 5.8 | 12.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 42.5 | 25.9 | 37.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 34.7 | 20.7 | 27.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 21.0 | 17.5 | 22.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 16.0 | 7.4 | 14.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | 17.5 | 14.9 | 18.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | 14.4 | 4.9 | 11.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | 5.0 | 6.2 | 7.2 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | 9.0 | 5.9 | 9.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | 1.0 | 5.6 | 26.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | 12.8 | 7.5 | 24.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | 25.3 | 15.8 | 26.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 5 to 50 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | 30.8 | 23.8 | 31.2 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 25.7 | 14.6 | 20.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 16.8 | -0.6 | 12.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 14.7 | 6.2 | 13.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 6.0 | 1.3 | 10.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | 4.7 | 6.2 | 9.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | -12.9 | -0.6 | -8.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | -3.4 | -3.3 | -11.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | -0.3 | -7.6 | -4.1 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | -8.7 | -4.2 | 6.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | -1.9 | 1.0 | 7.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | 6.1 | 1.4 | 22.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | 16.2 | 8.5 | 27.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 12.8 | 6.4 | 10.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 3.7 | -12.0 | -1.2 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 1.2 | -2.6 | 4.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | -6.3 | -7.1 | 1.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 August | -14.1 | -6.1 | -1.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 September | -30.1 | -11.8 | -20.8 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 October | -24.6 | -15.8 | -26.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 November | -15.2 | -23.3 | -18.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 December | -22.6 | -19.9 | -4.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 January | -13.9 | -8.2 | -2.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 February | -10.4 | -7.2 | 10.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 March | -1.2 | -0.3 | 13.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 April | 38.6 | 22.8 | 31.6 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 May | 29.9 | 10.8 | 25.4 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 June | 28.2 | 15.0 | 21.9 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | 50 to 250 employed persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2023 July | 18.3 | 9.7 | 19.9 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||
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 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
- Turnover and selling prices
- The weighted response rates to the questions:
- "Our turnover/marketing in the last three months increased remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "Our turnover/marketing in the next three months will grow, remain unchanged or decrease?"
Weighted response rates to the questions:
- "Our total turnover will increase in the next year, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "Our foreign turnover/marketing in the last three months increased remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "Our foreign turnover will increase over the next three months, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "Our foreign turnover will increase in the next year, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "Our selling prices/rates over the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"- Turnover next three months
- Weighted response rates to the question:
- "Our total turnover over the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"- Balance turnover next three months
- The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase in turnover minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease in turnover. This balance shows the expected development of turnover in the next three months.
- 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?"- Orders placed next three months
- Weighted response rates to the question:
- "The value of the orders we expect to place with suppliers in the next three months will increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"- Balance purchase orders
- The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase of purchase orders minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease. This balance provides insight into the expected evolution of purchase orders in the next three months.
- Workforce
- The weighted response rates to the questions:
- "The workforce in the last three months has increased, remained unchanged or decreased?"
- "The workforce will in the next three months increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"
- "The workforce will in the next year increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"- Workforce next three months
- The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The workforce will in the next three months increase, remain unchanged or decrease?"- Balance workforce next three months
- The weighted response rate of producers with an expected increase in workforce minus the weighted response rate of producers with an expected decrease in workforce in the next three months. This balance provides insight into the development of the workforce in the next three months.