Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Employment indicator (Average of the components)
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 3.0
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 3.8
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 8.4
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 1.5
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -2.7
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July -1.9
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 1.9
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -4.0
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 8.7
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 9.5
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 14.9
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 7.0
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 14.3
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 9.2
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 9.8
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 7.2
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 9.8
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 5.1
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 5.9
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 3.1
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April 18.8
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 13.3
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 13.7
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 11.3
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -3.6
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July -0.1
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October -8.7
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 1.3
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -6.9
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July -3.2
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October -12.6
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -1.4
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 April -0.3
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June .
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 3.0
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
Sentiment indicator for the Dutch private sector regarding the total employment