Business survey Netherlands; to company size

This table provides up-to-date information about the opinions held by Dutch entrepreneurs on their achievements, expectations and judgments regarding their business. This panel survey is aimed at gaining insight into the current situation, future development and the judgments of Dutch enterprises. As a result it is possible to detect turning points in optimism or pessimism at an early stage, providing an early indication of possible trend changes in the economic activities of the Dutch enterprises. Data are broken down by main business activities (SIC 2008) and size- classes. The questions submitted to the entrepreneurs at the beginning of a quarter concern output, turnover, prices, order books, stocks, investments, competitive position, economic climate, staff size and the obstacles they have encountered. In answering the questions relating to developments in the past three months and expectations for the next three months, the entrepreneurs are asked for a comparison with the preceding period of three months.

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 2015

Status of the figures: All figures are definitive.

Changes as of November 6th 2024: Figures of October 2024 have been added. Due to a technical error figures for three of the topics are missing for October 2024 for both construction and all enterprises (no finance or energy). Figures for all other branches are available for these topics. It concerns the following topics:

• Turnover next year
• Workforce next year
• Expectations investments next year

Changes as of March 7th 2024: Due to a technical issue most figures of February 2024 were divided by 100. This now has been corrected.

When will new figures be published? Figures of November are expected to be published the 28th of November 2024.