EMCB : Monthly Business Outlook Survey in the Building Industry - 2022
Data description
The main subjects are:
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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;
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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;
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the cash flow position, the repayment period by type of clientele;
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the production capacity: the survey concerns the possible obstacles to the increase of the activity, the rate of utilisation of the production capacities;
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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 and the barriers to hiring ;
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the investment: some qualitative questions are asked quaterly;
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the expected trend of prices;
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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):
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construction of residential and non-residential buildings (code 41.2), with the exception of installation works of electrical wiring and fittings on public thoroughfare (code 43.21B);
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demolition (code 43.11Z);
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electrical, plumbing and other installation work (code 43.2);
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finishing work (code 43.3);
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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
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.
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.
New as from the January 2022 campaign:
- introduction of a quarterly question on the probable trend in hourly wages in the sector;
- reintroduction of some quarterly questions about the barriers to hiring, resuming a set of questions asked from January 2017 to July 2020;
- removal of the quarterly questions about the impact of the health crisis on productivity -- that was a set of questions asked from October 2020 to October 2021.
From the May 2022 campaign:
- introduction of questions on direct or indirect supply difficulties related to the war in Ukraine.
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - January 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - February 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - March 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - April 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - May 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - June 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - July 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - October 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - November 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - December 2022 (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - August 2022 (pdf, en)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in the building industry - September 2022 (pdf, fr)
The French business survey on the situation and outlook in the Building industry : methodology -- Insee Méthodes n ° 115
https://www.bnsp.insee.fr/ark:/12148/bc6p06zhj9p/f1.pdf
Joint harmonised European Union programme of business and consumer surveys
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/db_indicators/surveys/method_guides/index_en.htm
- Indicateur de climat des affaires et de retournement conjoncturel – Tous secteurs (pdf, fr)
- Méthodologie de l'enquête mensuelle de conjoncture dans l’industrie du bâtiment (pdf, fr)