Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Employment indicator (Average of the components)
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 12.2
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 11.0
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 7.2
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April 11.7
B Mining and quarrying Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 May .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 2.2
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 1.4
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 0.3
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April 1.9
B Mining and quarrying Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 May .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 22.2
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 20.6
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 14.1
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April 21.5
B Mining and quarrying Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 May .
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

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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 May 30th 2024:
Figures of May 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
Figures of June are expected to be published the 27th of June 2024.

Description topics

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