Quarterly business outlook survey on investment in industry 2019
Traitement statistique
Frequency of data collection
Quarterly
Data collection
Data collection is by post and via the internet over a period that extends from the end of the month preceding the survey month to the survey publication date.
Survey results are sent to the European Commission in April and November, 4 business days before the end of the month.
Data collection period
The collection period runs from the end of the month preceding the reference month of the survey to the date of publication of the results (between the 20th and 25th of the month following the reference month).
Collection mode
- By post mail
- By Internet
Survey unit
- Legal unit
- Enterprise
Sampling method
Survey of a sample of about 4,000 industrial enterprises with 20 employees or more. The sampling frame is an administrtative referentiel of firms. Strata are defined according to econonomic activity and number of employees.
All enterprises with at least 500 employees of turnover of €150 million euros are surveyed. For the other strata, the sample is produced by stratified sampling without replacement, using an allocation proportional to turnover.
Sample size
About 4,000 units
Data collection documents
The survey is conducted every quarter but not all questions are asked every quarter.
In practice, three models of questionnaires were created to take into account these
specificities:
- the first questionnaire corresponds to the months of January and July;
- the second one is sent in April;
- the last one in October.
- Questionnaire for January and July (pdf, fr, 48 Ko, 03/06/2019)
- Questionnaire for April (pdf, fr, 56 Ko, 03/06/2019)
- Questionnaire for October (pdf, fr, 1 Mo, 03/06/2019)