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EMCS : Monthly Outlook Survey in Services - 2021

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Producer: Insee
Authorisation: Statistical Confidentiality Committee
Availability date: 18/04/2023
Statistical presentation

Data description

The main themes addressed are :
- activity: business managers are asked about developments in the sector as a whole, as well as the demand addressed to them, the cash flow situation, the stock level or the factors limiting their activity;
- employment: business managers are asked about recent and upcoming staff numbers in their company. They are also asked about their recruitment difficulties;
- investment: business managers are asked about the development of their recent and future investments, the factors driving their decision to invest and the destination of the latter;
- prices ;
- market prices, the foreign competitive position, acquisitions and transport capacity ;
- the easiness to predict the future development of the business situation.
Most of the survey questions are qualitative and have three modalities. The results are presented in the form of opinion balances, corresponding to the differences between the percentage of "increasing" (+) and the percentage of "decreasing" (-) responses.

Sector coverage

The survey covers almost all of the following sectors: accommodation and catering; information and communication; real estate activities; specialised, scientific and technical activities; administrative and support activities; other service activities; road goods haulage and courier services.
More precisely, the survey covers the sectors defined by the French Nomenclature of Activities (NAF Rev. 2) codes: 49.41, 52.29A, 53.2, 55.1, 55.2, 56.1, 56.21Z, 56.3, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 68 (except 68.32B), 69, 70 (except 70.10Z), 71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 (except 81.30Z), 82, 95, 96.

Statistical unit

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

    Reference area

    France métropolitaine

    Comparability

    Until 2007, the survey was carried out each month except in August. Since 2008 it has been carried out every month.

    Statistical processing

    Sample size

    4,500 units

      Data collection documents

      The survey is conducted every month but not all questions are asked every month. Some questions are only asked to enterprises in road haulage of goods.
      The survey questionnaires consists of a common core of monthly questions to which are added, depending on the month, some quarterly, biannual or annual questions.
      - Since the October 2020 campaign, the survey in services 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, new questions on investment issues are asked. Most of these questions are part of the harmonised EU programme. They are qualitative, and no longer quantitative, with a quarterly, biannual or annual frequency depending on the item. In parallel, some questions related to the company's financial conditions and to the payment periods have been removed in order to limit the response burden for this survey.

      Documentation on methodology

      Joint harmonised European Union programme of business and consumer surveys.

      Persistent Identifier
      2021 : https://doi.org/10.34724/CASD.405.4849.V1