Netherlands Business survey, region, month 1989-2023
| Businesses/activities (SBI 2008) | Regions | Periods | Economic climate Economic climate last three months Economic climate has improved (%) | Economic climate Economic climate last three months Economic environment remained unchanged (%) | Economic climate Economic climate last three months Economic climate declined (%) | Economic climate Economic climate last three months Not applicable (%) | Economic climate Economic climate last three months Balance economic climate last 3 months (%) | Economic climate Economic climate next three months Economic climate will improve (%) | Economic climate Economic climate next three months Economic climate will remain unchanged (%) | Economic climate Economic climate next three months Economic climate will decline (%) | Economic climate Economic climate next three months Not applicable (%) | Economic climate Economic climate next three months Balance economic climate next 3 months (%) |
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| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2022 July | 7.8 | 73.5 | 18.7 | . | -10.8 | 5.5 | 78.4 | 16.1 | . | -10.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 7.2 | 77.0 | 15.8 | . | -8.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 5.7 | 72.2 | 22.1 | . | -16.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2022 October | 5.7 | 66.9 | 27.4 | . | -21.6 | 5.5 | 68.6 | 25.9 | . | -20.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 8.5 | 70.9 | 20.6 | . | -12.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 7.3 | 75.7 | 17.0 | . | -9.7 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2023 January | 6.5 | 76.0 | 17.5 | . | -11.0 | 9.7 | 75.9 | 14.4 | . | -4.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 8.9 | 81.3 | 9.8 | . | -0.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 11.3 | 78.6 | 10.1 | . | 1.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2023 April | 7.0 | 79.3 | 13.7 | . | -6.7 | 7.0 | 84.1 | 8.9 | . | -1.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2023 May | 6.8 | 77.3 | 15.9 | . | -9.1 | 8.1 | 82.4 | 9.5 | . | -1.5 |
| C Manufacturing | Nederland | 2023 June | 5.7 | 79.7 | 14.6 | . | -8.8 | 6.3 | 83.2 | 10.5 | . | -4.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2022 July | 8.8 | 76.1 | 15.1 | . | -6.2 | 6.1 | 80.9 | 13.0 | . | -6.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 2.6 | 84.8 | 12.6 | . | -10.0 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 3.3 | 74.0 | 22.7 | . | -19.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2022 October | 5.5 | 68.4 | 26.1 | . | -20.7 | 5.3 | 69.9 | 24.8 | . | -19.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 4.6 | 73.4 | 22.0 | . | -17.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 6.0 | 76.2 | 17.8 | . | -11.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2023 January | 6.6 | 74.2 | 19.2 | . | -12.6 | 10.4 | 78.1 | 11.5 | . | -1.0 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 10.3 | 76.9 | 12.8 | . | -2.5 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 13.7 | 73.8 | 12.5 | . | 1.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2023 April | 9.4 | 72.2 | 18.4 | . | -9.0 | 6.6 | 83.6 | 9.8 | . | -3.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2023 May | 5.2 | 76.2 | 18.6 | . | -13.3 | 5.4 | 84.6 | 10.0 | . | -4.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2023 June | 3.1 | 78.5 | 18.4 | . | -15.3 | 5.0 | 81.0 | 14.0 | . | -9.0 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2022 July | 9.8 | 73.2 | 17.0 | . | -7.2 | 6.3 | 79.1 | 14.6 | . | -8.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 5.5 | 77.7 | 16.8 | . | -11.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 4.1 | 71.2 | 24.7 | . | -20.7 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2022 October | 5.5 | 65.6 | 28.9 | . | -23.4 | 4.9 | 67.4 | 27.7 | . | -22.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 7.7 | 73.1 | 19.2 | . | -11.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 6.8 | 74.0 | 19.2 | . | -12.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2023 January | 9.7 | 73.1 | 17.2 | . | -7.4 | 10.8 | 75.3 | 13.9 | . | -3.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 10.9 | 80.3 | 8.8 | . | 2.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 14.1 | 76.8 | 9.1 | . | 5.0 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2023 April | 8.7 | 79.6 | 11.7 | . | -3.0 | 10.1 | 82.9 | 7.0 | . | 3.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2023 May | 9.3 | 74.8 | 15.9 | . | -6.7 | 9.0 | 80.9 | 10.1 | . | -1.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2023 June | 7.0 | 78.8 | 14.2 | . | -7.3 | 8.3 | 79.5 | 12.2 | . | -3.8 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2022 July | 8.9 | 72.6 | 18.5 | . | -9.6 | 6.3 | 75.4 | 18.3 | . | -12.0 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 7.9 | 73.9 | 18.2 | . | -10.3 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 5.4 | 70.1 | 24.5 | . | -19.1 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2022 October | 4.2 | 67.5 | 28.3 | . | -24.1 | 4.8 | 68.2 | 27.0 | . | -22.1 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 9.1 | 68.5 | 22.4 | . | -13.4 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 5.1 | 76.0 | 18.9 | . | -13.7 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2023 January | 6.8 | 76.6 | 16.6 | . | -9.8 | 6.6 | 77.2 | 16.2 | . | -9.6 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 7.3 | 83.1 | 9.6 | . | -2.4 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 8.5 | 81.7 | 9.8 | . | -1.3 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2023 April | 5.5 | 80.6 | 13.9 | . | -8.5 | 5.8 | 84.4 | 9.8 | . | -4.1 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2023 May | 6.8 | 77.5 | 15.7 | . | -8.9 | 8.1 | 83.0 | 8.9 | . | -0.9 |
| C Manufacturing | West-Nederland (LD) | 2023 June | 5.0 | 82.5 | 12.5 | . | -7.6 | 7.1 | 83.4 | 9.5 | . | -2.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2022 July | 5.0 | 73.7 | 21.3 | . | -16.3 | 3.9 | 80.1 | 16.0 | . | -12.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 9.2 | 77.2 | 13.6 | . | -4.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 8.0 | 74.6 | 17.4 | . | -9.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2022 October | 7.6 | 66.8 | 25.6 | . | -18.1 | 6.8 | 69.4 | 23.8 | . | -17.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 9.6 | 70.9 | 19.5 | . | -9.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 10.4 | 76.4 | 13.2 | . | -2.8 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2023 January | 3.5 | 78.4 | 18.1 | . | -14.6 | 11.8 | 74.3 | 13.9 | . | -2.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 8.4 | 81.7 | 9.9 | . | -1.5 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 11.1 | 78.5 | 10.4 | . | 0.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2023 April | 6.5 | 79.8 | 13.7 | . | -7.2 | 5.8 | 84.9 | 9.3 | . | -3.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2023 May | 5.4 | 79.4 | 15.2 | . | -9.9 | 8.1 | 82.4 | 9.5 | . | -1.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2023 June | 6.3 | 78.0 | 15.7 | . | -9.4 | 4.2 | 86.7 | 9.1 | . | -4.8 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2022 July | 8.0 | 75.1 | 16.9 | . | -8.9 | 4.8 | 77.3 | 17.9 | . | -13.0 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 4.4 | 75.0 | 20.6 | . | -16.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 3.8 | 60.7 | 35.5 | . | -31.7 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2022 October | 5.7 | 55.9 | 38.4 | . | -32.7 | 5.5 | 59.3 | 35.2 | . | -29.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 6.6 | 65.8 | 27.6 | . | -20.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 4.1 | 74.4 | 21.5 | . | -17.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2023 January | 10.2 | 64.8 | 25.0 | . | -14.8 | 17.9 | 68.3 | 13.8 | . | 4.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 12.2 | 71.4 | 16.4 | . | -4.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 8.1 | 71.5 | 20.4 | . | -12.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2023 April | 11.9 | 57.7 | 30.4 | . | -18.5 | 8.0 | 76.9 | 15.1 | . | -7.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2023 May | 3.4 | 69.5 | 27.1 | . | -23.8 | 4.6 | 81.4 | 14.0 | . | -9.4 |
| C Manufacturing | Groningen (PV) | 2023 June | 1.2 | 75.7 | 23.1 | . | -21.8 | 4.7 | 76.3 | 19.0 | . | -14.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2022 July | 13.7 | 70.2 | 16.1 | . | -2.5 | 9.9 | 79.1 | 11.0 | . | -1.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 2.0 | 91.8 | 6.2 | . | -4.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 3.8 | 81.7 | 14.5 | . | -10.7 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2022 October | 7.2 | 73.4 | 19.4 | . | -12.2 | 7.0 | 73.8 | 19.2 | . | -12.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 3.2 | 79.0 | 17.8 | . | -14.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 8.1 | 72.7 | 19.2 | . | -11.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2023 January | 6.3 | 78.2 | 15.5 | . | -9.2 | 7.9 | 80.4 | 11.7 | . | -3.8 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 10.7 | 80.0 | 9.3 | . | 1.5 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 21.4 | 73.3 | 5.3 | . | 16.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2023 April | 6.3 | 77.6 | 16.1 | . | -9.8 | 6.2 | 87.1 | 6.7 | . | -0.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2023 May | 5.5 | 80.2 | 14.3 | . | -8.8 | 4.8 | 86.8 | 8.4 | . | -3.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Fryslân (PV) | 2023 June | 4.2 | 79.1 | 16.7 | . | -12.5 | 6.0 | 83.9 | 10.1 | . | -4.1 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2022 July | 1.5 | 88.5 | 10.0 | . | -8.5 | 1.2 | 90.3 | 8.5 | . | -7.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 0.9 | 88.5 | 10.6 | . | -9.7 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 1.7 | 82.3 | 16.0 | . | -14.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2022 October | 2.0 | 80.3 | 17.7 | . | -15.8 | 2.0 | 80.8 | 17.2 | . | -15.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2022 November | . | . | . | . | . | 3.9 | 76.0 | 20.1 | . | -16.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2022 December | . | . | . | . | . | 5.1 | 85.9 | 9.0 | . | -3.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2023 January | 2.3 | 79.8 | 17.9 | . | -15.6 | 5.0 | 87.0 | 8.0 | . | -3.0 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2023 February | . | . | . | . | . | 7.1 | 78.5 | 14.4 | . | -7.3 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2023 March | . | . | . | . | . | 7.2 | 78.0 | 14.8 | . | -7.5 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2023 April | 11.9 | 81.8 | 6.3 | . | 5.6 | 5.5 | 86.4 | 8.1 | . | -2.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2023 May | 7.2 | 78.2 | 14.6 | . | -7.4 | 7.6 | 84.9 | 7.5 | . | 0.2 |
| C Manufacturing | Drenthe (PV) | 2023 June | 3.7 | 81.1 | 15.2 | . | -11.4 | 3.4 | 82.3 | 14.3 | . | -10.9 |
| C Manufacturing | Overijssel (PV) | 2022 July | 8.4 | 75.0 | 16.6 | . | -8.3 | 4.6 | 80.2 | 15.2 | . | -10.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Overijssel (PV) | 2022 August | . | . | . | . | . | 3.6 | 79.2 | 17.2 | . | -13.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Overijssel (PV) | 2022 September | . | . | . | . | . | 3.0 | 71.4 | 25.6 | . | -22.6 |
| C Manufacturing | Overijssel (PV) | 2022 October | 4.5 | 65.5 | 30.0 | . | -25.6 | 6.5 | 64.7 | 28.8 | . | -22.2 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||||||
Table explanation
The purpose of this table is to provide current information on the opinions of Dutch producers about performance, expectations and assessment concerning their enterprises. The survey covers enterprises in commercial services, retail trade and manufacturing industry. The Business sentiment survey makes it possible to indicate turning points
in sentiment at an early stage. In this way a change in the trend of economic activity of Dutch companies is available at a early stage. The questions put to the companies relate to production,sales, prices, orders, stocks, investment, competitiveness,economic climate, workforce and the factors limiting production. In answering the questions relating to developments in the past three months and expectations for the next tree months, the enterpreneurs are asked for a comparison with the preceding period of three months.
This publication is created using co-financing by the European Commission.
Status of the figures: All data are definite.
Data available from Services: April 1992 - June 2023
Data available from Retail Trade: May 2008 - June 2023
Data available from Industry: February 1989 - June 2023
Changes as of 27 July 2023;
This table has been discontinued. The reason for this is that the results of this table have been moved to other, new tables in which the results comply with the stricter confidentiality rules due to an adjusted industry classification.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable.
This table is followed by Business survey Netherlands; to regions (active on August 15, 2023). See paragraph 3.
Description topics
- Economic climate
- The weighted response rates on the statements:
- "The economic climate for our business has improved, remained unchanged
or declined in the last three months."
- "The economic climate in the next three months for our
company is expected to improve, remain unchanged or decline? "- Economic climate last three months
- Economic climate last three months
The weighted response rates to the question:
- "The economic climate in the last three months for our
business improved, remained unchanged or declined? "- Economic climate has improved
- Weighted response rate of producers indicating that the economic
climate for their enterprise in the last three months has improved.
- Economic environment remained unchanged
- Weighted respons rate of producers indicating that the economic
climate for their enterprise in the last three months remained unchanged.
- Economic climate declined
- Weighted response rate of producers indicating that the economic
climate for their enterprise in the last three months has declined.
- Not applicable
- The weighted respons rate of producers who consider the
development of the economic climate for their enterprise as not relevant
plus the weighted response rate of producers who were not asked the
question.
- Balance economic climate last 3 months
- The weighted response rate of producers indicating that
the economic climate in the last three months has improved minus the
weighted response rate that it has declined.
This balance represents the development of the economic climate over
the last three months compared with the previous three months.
- Economic climate next three months
- The weighted response rates to the question:
- "We expect the economic climate for our company
to improve, remain unchanged or decline in the last three months."- Economic climate will improve
- Weighted response rate of producers indicating that the economic
climate for their enterprise is expected to improve in the next three months.
- Economic climate will remain unchanged
- Weighted response rate of producers indicating that the economic
climate for the company is expected to remain the same in the next three months.
- Economic climate will decline
- Weighted response rate of enterprises indicating that the economic
climate for the company is expected to decline in the next three months.
- Not applicable
- The weighted respons rate of producers who consider the
development of the economic climate for their enterprise as not relevant
plus the weighted response rate of producers who were not asked
the question.
- Balance economic climate next 3 months
- The weighted response rate of producers indicating that
the economic climate in the next three months will improve minus the
weighted response rate that it will decline.
This balance represents the expected development of the economic
climate over the next three months compared with the previous three
months.