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EMCB : Monthly Business Outlook Survey in the Building Industry - 2021

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Producer: Insee
Authorisation: Statistical Confidentiality Committee
Availability date: 01/04/2022
Statistical presentation

Data description

The main subjects are:
- the activity: past and future activity , at a whole level, but also by kind of work and by type of clientele (public, private). The business managers are also surveyed on the general perspectives of the sector;
- the order books: the business managers are surveyed on the order books level in months of work; they also compare the level of their order books with the normal situation;
- the cash flow position, the repayment period by type of clientele;
- the production capacity: the survey concerns the possible obstacles to the increase of the activity, the rate of utilisation of the production capacities;
- the employment: recent and upcoming trends in the staff numbers, in the last three months and expected in the next three months. The business managers are also surveyed on the recruitment problems;
- the investment: some qualitative questions are asked quaterly;
- the expected trend of prices;
- the easiness to predict the future development of the business situation.
Mostly, the questions are qualitative, with three choices. The results are balances of opinion calculated as the difference between the percentage of << up (+)>> and the percentage of << down (-)>>.

Sector coverage

The survey covers the sectors defined by the following codes of the French Nomenclature of Activities (NAF rev. 2):
- construction of residential and non-residential buildings (code 41.2);
- electrical, plumbing and other installation work (code 43.2); 
- finishing work (code 43.3);
- other specialized construction work (code 43.9).

Statistical unit

The unit surveyed is the enterprise (legal unit or profiled enterprise).

    Statistical population

    The monthly business tendency survey in the building industry covers companies working on the construction of individual houses and miscellaneous buildings, general building work, roofing, framing, fitting and finishing work.

    Reference area

    France métropolitaine

    Comparability

    The survey has been conducted quaterly first and monthly since 1993. Until 2007, the survey has occurred each month except in August. Since 2008, it occurrs every month.

    Statistical processing

    Sample size

    2,500 units

      Data collection documents

      The monthly business tendency survey in the building industry is conducted every month. It includes a quarterly component of a few questions asked in January, April, July and October.
      The survey questionnaires consists of a common core of monthly questions to which are added, depending on the month, some quarterly questions.
      Since the October 2020 campaign, the survey in industry has included a set of quarterly questions on the effects of the sanitary crisis.
      Since the April 2021 campaign, a question has been introduced within the framework of the joint harmonised EU programme of business and consumer surveys (BCS) . The business managers are asked to indicate how easy it is to predict the future development of their business situation.
      From the October 2021 campaign, the questions on the part the activity that is subcontracted by type of works and the quantitative questions on investments have not been renewed.

      Documentation on methodology

      The French business survey on the situation and outlook in the Building industry : methodology -- Insee Méthodes n ° 115 

      https://www.insee.fr/en/information/2579499

      Joint harmonised European Union programme of business and consumer surveys

      http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/db_indicators/surveys/method_guides/index_en.htm

      Persistent Identifier
      2021 : https://doi.org/10.34724/CASD.432.4308.V1