Business and consumer surveys supply a wide range of information on current economic activity and its perspectives based on the opinion of economic actors, such as entrepreneurs and consumers.
Business and consumer surveys are based on the Joint Harmonised EU Programme Commission Decision of 15 July 1997 (C(97) 2241).
They cover the following domains: industry, services, retail trade, building and consumers. Moreover, synthetic indicators such as confidence indicators and economic sentiment indicators are also presented.
Data are generally presented as balances between the percentage of positive and negative answers to each questions. They are available both as non-seasonally adjusted and seasonally adjusted data using the DAINTIES method. Learn more.
Business and consumer surveys are essentially used in business cycle analysis to forecast quantitative variables, to construct synthetic leading and coincident indicators as well as for cyclical diagnostics and turning point detection.
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