Monthly outlook survey in services 2020
Traitement statistique
Frequency of data collection
Monthly
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, i.e. 4 business days before the end of the current month.
Survey results are sent to the European Commission 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 reference month).
Collection mode
- By post mail
- By Internet
Survey unit
- Legal unit
- Enterprise
Sampling method
Survey of a sample of 4,500 enterprises in services and road haulage of goods.
All road haulage companies having annual turnover in excess of €30 million are surveyed systematically.
For other service enterprises, this threshold is €45 million.
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.
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 February, March, April, May, June, August, Septembre,
November and December;
- the last one is sent in April and October.
- Questionnaire 2020 for January and July road haulage companies (pdf, fr, 357 Ko, 05/12/2019)
- Questionnaire 2020 for the months of January and July for other companies (pdf, fr, 351 Ko, 05/12/2019)
- Questionnaire 2020 of February, March, May, June, August, September, November, December of road haulage companies and other companies (pdf, fr, 248 Ko, 05/12/2019)
- Questionnaire 2020 of the road haulage companies in April and October (pdf, fr, 357 Ko, 05/12/2019)
- Questionnaire 2020 of the months of April and October of the other companies (pdf, fr, 371 Ko, 05/12/2019)
Adjustment
The published series are seasonally adjusted (CVS). Seasonality tests are carried out on all series. As a result, the published series are seasonally adjusted (CVS). A series that initially has no seasonal character is presented as a CVS series with zero coefficients and is equal to the gross series. The effects are estimated with the X13 and TramoSeats software under JDemetra+ (provided by Eurostat) at the level of aggregates specific to the NAF rev. 2 subclass survey. CVS indices for senior positions are obtained directly, not by aggregating the CVS indices that compose them.