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ECI : Outlook Survey in the Industry Sector - 2022

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Producer: Insee
Authorisation: Statistical Confidentiality Committee
Availability date: 25/04/2024
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 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 and the barriers to hiring ;

  • 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

    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

    4,000 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.  

      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 April 2022 campaign:

      • introduction of an annual question set on investment requested as part of the BCS European survey program.

      From the May 2022 campaign:

      • introduction of questions on direct or indirect supply difficulties related to the war in Ukraine.

      From November 2022 campaign:

      • temporary insertion of a module on energy prices.

      Documentation on methodology

      The French business survey on the situation and outlook in the Building industry : methodology -- Insee Méthodes n ° 117

      https://www.bnsp.insee.fr/ark:/12148/bc6p06zhjn4/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

      Persistent Identifier
      2022 : https://doi.org/10.34724/CASD.288.5309.V1