Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Employment indicator (Average of the components)
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 4.6
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 6.5
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 9.8
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 9.2
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 16.9
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 20.7
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 9.6
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 12.2
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 12.3
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 10.4
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 7.6
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April 5.0
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May -1.1
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 0.4
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 3.7
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 2.7
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 10.2
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 12.1
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 3.9
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 5.1
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 4.7
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 3.1
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 0.9
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April -3.0
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 May 10.3
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 June 12.6
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 July 15.9
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 August 15.7
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 23.6
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 29.3
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 15.3
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 19.3
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 19.9
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 17.7
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 14.3
L Renting, buying, selling real estate Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April 13.0
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 May 16th 2024:
Figures of April 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
Figures of May are expected to be published the 30th of May 2024.

Description topics

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