Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Employment indicator components Workforce last 3 months (%) Employment indicator components Workforce next 3 months (%)
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -4.3 4.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 8.6 4.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 6.9 5.3
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -5.0 -1.8
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -12.7 -3.9
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 1.2 -1.8
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October -0.4 -2.3
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -11.9 -8.7
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 4.1 13.3
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 16.0 11.2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 14.2 12.9
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 1.9 5.1
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February . .
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March . .
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -1.5 7.6
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 5.2 8.4
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 5.1 6.7
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 9.1 7.2
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 4.7 7.3
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 2.5 5.2
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 2.7 5.2
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 7.6 6.7
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 2.0 6.1
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 3.4 3.0
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February -1.8 3.6
H Transportation and storage Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 2.1 4.2
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -6.0 2.9
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 0.1 4.7
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 0.2 2.0
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 4.0 2.9
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 0.4 3.2
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September -2.2 1.1
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October -2.0 0.5
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 3.3 2.4
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December -2.9 1.4
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -1.7 -1.7
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February -6.5 -0.7
H Transportation and storage Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March -2.8 -0.5
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 3.0 12.3
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 10.3 12.1
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 10.0 11.4
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 14.2 11.5
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 9.0 11.4
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 7.2 9.3
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 7.4 9.9
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 11.9 11.0
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 6.9 10.8
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 8.5 7.7
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 2.9 7.9
H Transportation and storage Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 7.0 8.9
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 8.5 16.2
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 10.2 19.0
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 5.2 7.2
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 8.9 16.9
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 14.1 16.1
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 12.6 16.0
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 11.5 17.4
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 9.8 16.9
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 13.7 16.7
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -0.8 11.4
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February -1.0 14.4
J Information and communication Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March -3.2 17.5
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 0.1 8.9
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 1.8 11.4
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June -3.0 -1.0
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 0.3 9.5
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 4.9 8.5
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 5.0 8.9
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 3.7 10.3
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 1.0 9.8
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 4.9 8.9
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -10.0 4.0
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February -10.2 7.0
J Information and communication Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March -12.0 9.7
J Information and communication Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 16.9 23.5
J Information and communication Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 18.6 26.6
J Information and communication Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 13.4 15.4
J Information and communication Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 17.5 24.3
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Dataset is not available.


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 components
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.