ECI : Outlook Survey in the Industry Sector - 2021
Data description
The main themes addressed are:
- activity: business managers are asked about developments in the sector as a whole, as well as their own activity, 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 trends in staff numbers in their company. They are also asked about their recruitment difficulties;
- investment: company 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;
- the competitive position or delivery times;
- 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 manufacturing industry and extraction industries; divisions 08 to 33 of French Nomenclature of Activities (NAF Rev. 2) (except 08.92Z, 09.10Z, 12, 19.10Z, 30.40Z).
Statistical unit
The unit surveyed is the enterprise (legal unit or profiled enterprise).
Reference area
France métropolitaine
Until 2007, the survey was carried out each month except in August. Since 2008 it has been carried out every month.
Sample size
4,000 units
Data collection documents
The survey is conducted every month but not all questions are asked every month.
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 industry contained 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 are asked. Most of these questions are part of the harmonised EU programme. They are qualitative, and no longer quantitative, with a quaterly, biannual or annual frequency depending on the item. Simpler, less frequent than those of the former quarterly survey on investments, stopped after the July 2021 campaign, they will provide useful information on this topic along with a lower response burden for entreprises.
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - February 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - November 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - December 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - March 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - April 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - May 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - June 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - July 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - August 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - September 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - January 2021 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - October 2021 (pdf, fr)