Business confidence; to sector/branches
| Sector/branches (SBI 2008) | Margins | Periods | Business confidence (Average of the components) | Business confidence indicator components Business situation past three months (%) | Business confidence indicator components Business situation next three months (%) | Uncertainty indicator business climate (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | Value | 2023 May | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | Value | 2023 June | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | Value | 2023 July | -8.3 | -9.3 | -7.3 | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | Value | 2023 August | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | Value | 2023 September | . | . | . | . |
| All enterprises (no finance or energy) | Value | 2023 October | -10.3 | -12.5 | -8.0 | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | 2023 May | . | . | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | 2023 June | . | . | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | 2023 July | -13.1 | -13.2 | -12.9 | 35.1 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | 2023 August | . | . | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | 2023 September | . | . | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | 2023 October | -18.3 | -22.8 | -13.8 | 34.5 |
| B Mining and quarrying | Value | 2023 May | . | . | . | . |
| B Mining and quarrying | Value | 2023 June | . | . | . | . |
| B Mining and quarrying | Value | 2023 July | -7.8 | -10.3 | -5.4 | 37.3 |
| B Mining and quarrying | Value | 2023 August | . | . | . | . |
| B Mining and quarrying | Value | 2023 September | . | . | . | . |
| B Mining and quarrying | Value | 2023 October | -2.4 | -3.1 | -1.8 | 32.5 |
| C Manufacturing | Value | 2023 May | -5.7 | -10.2 | -1.1 | 26.0 |
| C Manufacturing | Value | 2023 June | -7.0 | -10.6 | -3.5 | 26.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Value | 2023 July | -7.3 | -8.6 | -6.0 | 26.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Value | 2023 August | -9.0 | -10.4 | -7.5 | 25.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Value | 2023 September | -9.5 | -10.2 | -8.8 | 26.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Value | 2023 October | -13.0 | -14.2 | -11.8 | 26.8 |
| F Construction | Value | 2023 May | . | . | . | . |
| F Construction | Value | 2023 June | . | . | . | . |
| F Construction | Value | 2023 July | -24.5 | -24.2 | -24.8 | . |
| F Construction | Value | 2023 August | . | . | . | . |
| F Construction | Value | 2023 September | . | . | . | . |
| F Construction | Value | 2023 October | -23.9 | -29.4 | -18.4 | . |
| G Wholesale and retail trade | Value | 2023 May | . | . | . | . |
| G Wholesale and retail trade | Value | 2023 June | . | . | . | . |
| G Wholesale and retail trade | Value | 2023 July | -7.1 | -8.2 | -5.9 | 14.4 |
| G Wholesale and retail trade | Value | 2023 August | . | . | . | . |
| G Wholesale and retail trade | Value | 2023 September | . | . | . | . |
| G Wholesale and retail trade | Value | 2023 October | -9.8 | -13.3 | -6.4 | 14.8 |
| H Transportation and storage | Value | 2023 May | -2.3 | -2.2 | -2.4 | 24.8 |
| H Transportation and storage | Value | 2023 June | -3.2 | -7.9 | 1.5 | 24.5 |
| H Transportation and storage | Value | 2023 July | -2.1 | -4.3 | 0.1 | 21.9 |
| H Transportation and storage | Value | 2023 August | -2.1 | -4.0 | -0.3 | 25.6 |
| H Transportation and storage | Value | 2023 September | -6.3 | -4.7 | -7.8 | 27.3 |
| H Transportation and storage | Value | 2023 October | -8.4 | -13.0 | -3.8 | 25.1 |
| I Accommodation and food serving | Value | 2023 May | -2.2 | -4.2 | -0.2 | 11.7 |
| I Accommodation and food serving | Value | 2023 June | -0.6 | -4.2 | 3.1 | 11.8 |
| I Accommodation and food serving | Value | 2023 July | -10.8 | -12.8 | -8.8 | 13.2 |
| I Accommodation and food serving | Value | 2023 August | -14.3 | -14.8 | -13.9 | 14.5 |
| I Accommodation and food serving | Value | 2023 September | -13.8 | -14.6 | -13.0 | 16.1 |
| I Accommodation and food serving | Value | 2023 October | -13.1 | -12.2 | -13.9 | 13.1 |
| J Information and communication | Value | 2023 May | -0.4 | -0.7 | -0.1 | -0.8 |
| J Information and communication | Value | 2023 June | -8.0 | -5.9 | -10.1 | -2.7 |
| J Information and communication | Value | 2023 July | 2.0 | 3.1 | 1.0 | -1.6 |
| J Information and communication | Value | 2023 August | -3.4 | -2.2 | -4.7 | -4.5 |
| J Information and communication | Value | 2023 September | -0.1 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 0.4 |
| J Information and communication | Value | 2023 October | 2.9 | 7.4 | -1.6 | -1.6 |
| L Renting, buying, selling real estate | Value | 2023 May | -17.0 | -20.7 | -13.4 | 1.7 |
| L Renting, buying, selling real estate | Value | 2023 June | -16.1 | -18.8 | -13.4 | -0.8 |
| L Renting, buying, selling real estate | Value | 2023 July | -13.3 | -17.4 | -9.3 | -3.5 |
| L Renting, buying, selling real estate | Value | 2023 August | -7.0 | -9.4 | -4.6 | 4.6 |
| L Renting, buying, selling real estate | Value | 2023 September | -11.5 | -11.4 | -11.6 | 1.4 |
| L Renting, buying, selling real estate | Value | 2023 October | -7.1 | -9.9 | -4.3 | 3.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | Value | 2023 May | -0.3 | -3.2 | 2.6 | 16.7 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | Value | 2023 June | 3.6 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 18.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | Value | 2023 July | 0.5 | -0.5 | 1.4 | 11.0 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | Value | 2023 August | -0.3 | -1.4 | 0.9 | 15.3 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | Value | 2023 September | -1.9 | -1.1 | -2.6 | 10.5 |
| R Culture, sports and recreation | Value | 2023 October | 0.1 | 2.0 | -1.8 | 14.6 |
| S Other service activities | Value | 2023 May | -6.5 | -9.5 | -3.5 | -2.1 |
| S Other service activities | Value | 2023 June | -7.5 | -7.2 | -7.7 | -1.4 |
| S Other service activities | Value | 2023 July | -10.4 | -10.6 | -10.2 | -1.5 |
| S Other service activities | Value | 2023 August | -11.4 | -10.2 | -12.6 | -1.4 |
| S Other service activities | Value | 2023 September | -11.1 | -13.3 | -9.0 | -4.4 |
| S Other service activities | Value | 2023 October | -14.7 | -18.0 | -11.4 | -5.3 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||
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The Business confidence is a sentiment indicator for the Dutch private sector. When assessing the results, it can be assumed that the more optimistic or pessimistic the entrepreneurs are, the more the value of business confidence will deviate positively or negatively from the zero line.
The Business confidence in the total Dutch private sector is a weighted average of the confidence indicators of the underlying sectors/industries, which together form a representative reflection of the Dutch business community from an economic viewpoint.
The Business confidence for manufacturing industry is not the same as the Producer Confidence. These figures are available in the Producer confidence table.
Data available from: January 2012.
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.
When will new figures be published?
Figures of April are expected to be published the 16th of May 2024.
Description topics
- Business confidence
- Sentiment indicator for the Dutch private sector
- Business confidence indicator components
- Business situation past three months
- Weighted and seasonally adjusted percentage to the question: how has your business situation developed over the past 3 months? It has… improved/remained unchanged/deteriorated.
- Business situation next three months
- Weighted and seasonally adjusted percentage to the question: how do you expect your business situation to develop over the next 3 months? It will… improve/remain unchanged/deteriorate.
- Uncertainty indicator business climate
- Weighted and seasonally adjusted percentage to the question: ‘The future development of your business situation is currently: easy to predict/moderately easy to predict/moderately difficult to predict/difficult to predict’.