Business confidence; region

This table provides figures on business confidence. Entrepreneurial confidence is a mood indicator indicating the direction in which the economy (gross domestic product, GDP) is expected to develop. When assessing the results, it can be assumed that the more optimistic or pessimistic the entrepreneurs are voting, the more the value of entrepreneurial confidence will deviate positively or negatively from the zero line, and the greater the expectation is that the development of GDP will increase or decrease in the coming months. The entrepreneurial confidence of a province is a weighted average of the confidence indicators of the underlying industries/sectors which together reflect representatively the total Dutch business. Data available from: 1st quarter 2014. Changes as of 14 February 2022: The results of the first quarter 2022 have been added. When will there be new figures? The results up to the second quarter of 2022 are expected to be published in mid-May 2022.