Business survey Netherlands; to sector/branches, seasonally adjusted

Business survey Netherlands; to sector/branches, seasonally adjusted

Sector/branches SIC 2008 Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Business climate last 3 months (%) Business climate next 3 months (%)
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 December -0.5 -0.3
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 January 3.7 3.1
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 February -2.4 1.8
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 March -3.8 0.6
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 April -3.7 0.0
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 May -5.2 0.5
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 June -3.9 -1.0
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 July 0.2 1.9
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 August -3.8 0.3
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 September -3.2 -1.0
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 October -4.7 -0.9
M-N Business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 November 0.2 -0.6
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 December -0.4 3.2
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 January 2.5 4.0
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 February -3.1 0.0
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 March -2.4 -2.4
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 April -3.8 -4.4
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 May -5.8 -1.0
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 June -5.6 -1.0
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 July -0.8 2.0
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 August -3.0 1.0
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 September -2.0 0.1
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 October -3.1 0.2
M-N Business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 November 0.5 2.8
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 December -2.7 -2.5
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 January 1.0 0.6
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 February -4.8 -0.6
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 March -6.5 -1.9
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 April -6.1 -2.2
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 May -7.7 -1.7
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 June -6.6 -3.4
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 July -2.3 -0.3
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 August -6.2 -1.7
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 September -5.4 -3.2
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 October -7.1 -3.3
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 November -2.3 -3.0
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 December -2.6 1.0
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 January -0.2 1.5
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 February -5.5 -2.4
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 March -5.1 -4.9
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 April -6.2 -6.6
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 May -8.3 -3.2
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 June -8.3 -3.4
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 July -3.3 -0.2
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 August -5.4 -1.0
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 September -4.2 -2.1
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 October -5.5 -2.2
M-N Business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 November -2.0 0.4
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 December 1.7 1.9
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 January 6.4 5.6
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 February 0.0 4.2
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 March -1.1 3.1
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 April -1.3 2.2
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 May -2.7 2.7
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 June -1.2 1.4
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 July 2.7 4.1
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 August -1.4 2.3
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 September -1.0 1.2
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 October -2.3 1.5
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 November 2.7 1.8
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 December 1.8 5.4
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 January 5.2 6.5
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 February -0.7 2.4
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 March 0.3 0.1
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 April -1.4 -2.2
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 May -3.3 1.2
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 June -2.9 1.4
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 July 1.7 4.2
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 August -0.6 3.0
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 September 0.2 2.3
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 October -0.7 2.6
M-N Business services Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2025 November 3.0 5.2
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2024 December 2.7 2.4
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 January 7.1 4.5
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 February -1.1 2.5
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 March -2.5 2.8
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 April -1.9 -1.0
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 May -3.9 0.2
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 June -3.6 -2.1
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 July -0.9 2.6
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 August -2.4 2.3
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 September -2.0 2.3
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 October -4.2 2.8
M Other specialised business services Value Original, unadjusted data 2025 November 2.0 4.2
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 December 2.0 3.5
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 January 4.3 2.3
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 February -3.5 1.3
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 March -3.3 0.6
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 April -1.9 -3.5
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 May -4.5 0.8
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 June -4.3 -0.4
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 July -0.9 4.6
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 August -0.4 3.1
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 September 0.2 2.7
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 October -1.5 2.2
M Other specialised business services Value Seasonally adjusted data 2025 November 3.0 6.4
M Other specialised business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2024 December -0.4 -0.7
M Other specialised business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 January 3.4 1.4
M Other specialised business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 February -4.4 -0.8
M Other specialised business services Lower bound 95% confidence interval Original, unadjusted data 2025 March -6.4 -0.5
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


This table contains seasonally corrected information about the opinions of Dutch entrepreneurs about developments, expectations and judgments regarding their business. The questions submitted to the entrepreneurs relate among other things to turnover, prices, staff size, economic climate and profitability. The data can be broken down into business activities according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2008).

Seasonal adjustment involves correcting for a more or less fixed seasonal pattern as a result of circumstances in the different seasons. The applied seasonal correction allows direct comparison of figures from successive periods.

Data available from: January 2012

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are definite.

Changes as of November 27th 2025:
Figures of November 2025 have been added.

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 topic ‘Purchase orders next 3 months’ has been adjusted for C Manufacturing and other activities which manufacturing is part of.

When will new figures be published?
Figures of December 2025 are expected to be published the 29th of December 2025.

Description topics

Business climate last 3 months
The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the economic climate (business situation) in the last three months has improved minus the weighted response rate that it has declined. This balance represents the development of the economic climate (business situation) over the last three months compared with the previous three months.
Business climate next 3 months
The weighted response rate of producers indicating that the economic climate (business situation) in the next three months will improve minus the weighted response rate that it will decline. This balance represents the expected development of the economic climate over the next three months compared with the previous three months.