Business survey Netherlands; to sector/branches, seasonally adjusted
| Sector/branches SIC 2008 | Margins | Seasonal adjustment | Periods | Workforce last 3 months (%) | Workforce next 3 months (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 December | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 January | -6.2 | 2.4 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | -2.1 | 5.1 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 5.2 | -9.5 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | -0.7 | -5.1 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -3.7 | -4.5 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -2.7 | -4.4 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | 2.1 | 1.3 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 December | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 January | -13.8 | -4.3 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | -9.5 | -1.8 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | -3.0 | -16.0 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | -8.0 | -13.1 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -7.3 | -6.3 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -11.1 | -11.4 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -10.9 | -10.9 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | -5.2 | -6.7 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 December | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 January | 1.4 | 9.1 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | 5.3 | 12.0 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | 13.4 | -3.0 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | 6.6 | 2.9 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | 7.9 | 7.1 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | 3.7 | 2.4 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | 5.5 | 2.1 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | . | . |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | 9.4 | 9.3 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | . | . |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 December | -1.3 | 4.0 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 January | -7.8 | 16.9 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | -7.0 | 11.5 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | -5.1 | 9.1 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 April | -0.7 | 13.5 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 May | -5.3 | 2.8 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 June | -3.4 | 6.3 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 July | -4.0 | 10.5 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 August | -8.5 | 9.3 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 September | -14.4 | 11.3 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 October | -12.4 | 4.6 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 November | -7.7 | 4.9 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2024 December | -4.3 | 7.0 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 January | -8.4 | 15.5 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 February | -10.8 | 10.4 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 March | -7.1 | 4.7 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 April | -1.4 | 11.7 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 May | -6.1 | 4.4 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 June | -1.5 | 8.7 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 July | -3.5 | 11.9 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 August | -4.3 | 9.3 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 September | -10.5 | 11.2 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 October | -9.9 | 3.9 |
| J Information and communication | Value | Seasonally adjusted data | 2025 November | -9.6 | 6.1 |
| J Information and communication | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2024 December | -10.9 | -4.2 |
| J Information and communication | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 January | -17.0 | 8.3 |
| J Information and communication | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 February | -16.4 | 3.3 |
| J Information and communication | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | Original, unadjusted data | 2025 March | -13.9 | 0.7 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||
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
- Workforce last 3 months
- The weighted response rate of producers with an increase in workforce minus the weighted response rate of producers with a decrease in workforce. This balance provides insight into the development of the workforce in the last three months.
- Workforce next 3 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.