Producer confidence; industry mood indicator, industry

Producer confidence is a mood indicator of industry entrepreneurs that sets the direction in which industrial production is expected to develop. The indicator is an unweighted arithmetic average of three (partial) indicators from the economic research in industry. These underlying sub-indicators are first stripped of seasonal influences and insufficient objective assessment (bias) for the calculation of producer confidence. This concerns the expected activity, the opinion on the order position and the assessment of stocks. The results of the latter question are inverted prior to the calculation of producer confidence, as a (too) large stock is seen as negative. The more optimistic or pessimistic the entrepreneurs are, the more the value of producer confidence will deviate positively or negatively from the zero line, and the greater is the expectation that production in a given industry and industry as a whole will increase or decrease in the coming months. Producer confidence has been available to the entire industry since 1985. For the subsectors within the industry, the outcome series starts in 1994. This publication is made with the co-financing by the European Commission. Data available from: January 1985 Status of the figures: The figures are final. Amendment as of 29 June 2022: The June 2022 figures have been added. When will the new figures come? The results for July 2022 are expected to be published on 28 July 2022.