Monthly tendency survey in the building industry 2022

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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

Sampling method

The survey covers 2,500 companies with more than 10 employees.

All companies with more than 500 employees are canvassed.

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.

Adjustment

The published series are seasonally adjusted (CVS). Seasonality tests are carried out on all series. 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 using the X-13 ARIMA method under JDemetra+ (provided by Eurostat) at the level of aggregates specific to the NAF rev. 2 subclass survey (structural work, frames and roofs, installation work, finishing). CVS indices for senior positions are obtained directly, not by aggregating the CVS indices that compose them.