Monthly tendency survey in industry 2021
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 4,000 industrial enterprises with 20 employees or more.
All enterprises with at least 500 employees of turnover of €150 million are surveyed.
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, 412 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - November 2021 (pdf, fr, 267 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - December 2021 (pdf, fr, 210 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - March 2021 (pdf, fr, 392 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - April 2021 (pdf, fr, 766 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - May 2021 (pdf, fr, 650 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - June 2021 (pdf, fr, 658 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - July 2021 (pdf, fr, 766 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - August 2021 (pdf, fr, 658 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - September 2021 (pdf, fr, 645 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - January 2021 (pdf, fr, 183 Ko, 11/10/2021)
- Questionnaire for the monthly tendency survey in industry - October 2021 (pdf, fr, 605 Ko, 11/10/2021)