Alongside the results of the tendency surveys, INSEE publishes composite business climate indicators each month to summarise the opinions of businesses, as expressed in the business tendency surveys. Since October 2021, the business climate indicator for the building construction industry has been modifi ed to capture variations in the outlook in the sector more eff ectively. This change was made necessary in particular by gaps that appeared during the health crisis between output in construction and the view that might be provided by the former version of the composite indicator. The new indicator gives more importance than its predecessor to balances of opinion for the near future and would appear to me more closely in line with output in building over the longer term.