Description

The Business confidence is a sentiment indicator for the Dutch private sector. 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.
The Business confidence 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 Business confidence for manufacturing industry is not the same as the Producer Confidence. These figures are available in the Producer confidence table.

Data available from: January 2012.

Changes as of May 27th 2025:
Figures of May 2025 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
Figures of June 2025 are expected to be published the 27th of June 2025.

Status

Disclosure level
Public
Available since
Updated

Features

Theme
Economy
Change frequency
Monthly
High value
Basic register

Ownership

Contact

Name
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

Metadata

Identifier
https://opendata.cbs.nl/ODataApi/OData/85612ENG
Metadata language
English

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Api

Business confidence
Sector/branches, confidence margins

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Business confidence
Sector/branches, confidence margins

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CC-BY (4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.nl CC-BY (4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.nl
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ATOM

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