Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Employment indicator (Average of the components)
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 13.1
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 10.3
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 9.0
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 6.7
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 8.5
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 5.0
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 9.8
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 10.0
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 13.6
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 16.7
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 12.7
R Culture, sports and recreation Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 13.5
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 6.8
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 3.6
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 3.5
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 1.2
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 3.2
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 0.1
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 2.9
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 4.1
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 6.9
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 11.2
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 7.8
R Culture, sports and recreation Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 7.8
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 19.4
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 17.0
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 14.5
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 12.2
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 13.8
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 9.9
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 16.7
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 15.9
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 20.3
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 22.2
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 17.6
R Culture, sports and recreation Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 19.2
Source: CBS.
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The employment indicator is a sentiment indicator for the Dutch private sector regarding the total employment of enterprises. 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. A positive figure for the indicator indicates an expansion of the workforce, a negative figure indicates a shrinking workforce.

The employment indicator 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 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:
The figures in this table are definite.

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

Employment indicator
Sentiment indicator for the Dutch private sector regarding the total employment