Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Employment indicator; to sector/branches

Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Margins Seasonal adjustment Periods Employment indicator (Average of the components)
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 4.2
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October -0.7
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 6.1
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 9.3
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 4.0
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 11.2
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 6.2
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April 5.8
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 May 5.2
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 June 11.4
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 July -0.7
S Other service activities Value Seasonally adjusted data 2024 August 7.1
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September -2.1
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October -7.6
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 0.6
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 2.2
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January -2.5
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 4.5
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March -0.1
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April -0.3
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 May -0.7
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 June 4.3
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 July -5.6
S Other service activities Lower bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 August 2.0
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 September 10.5
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 October 6.2
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 November 11.6
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2023 December 16.4
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 January 10.5
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 February 17.9
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 March 12.5
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 April 11.9
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 May 11.1
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 June 18.5
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 July 4.2
S Other service activities Upper bound 95% confidence interval Seasonally adjusted data 2024 August 12.2
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


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 August 29th 2024:
Figures of August 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
Figures of September are expected to be published the 27th of September 2024.

Description topics

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