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 Evaluation of firm's order books (Balance) for wholesale
Characteristic Description
Name Evaluation of firm's order books (Balance) for wholesale; Quarterly
Regularity Quarterly
Source Statistics Portugal, Short-term statistics on business - trade survey
First available period 4th Quarter 1988
Last available period 1st Quarter 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Quarter)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • WHOLESALE TRADE:  Wholesale resale (without transformation) of new or used goods to traders (retailers or wholesalers), industries, institutional and professional users or intermediaries. The goods can be resold raw, i.e.,as they were purchased, or after carrying out certain operations associated with wholesale trade.
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
Definition Difference between the share of positive evaluation responses (¿increased¿, ¿improved very much¿, ¿above average¿, ¿good¿, ¿yes, for sure¿, etc.) and negative evaluation responses (¿decreased¿, ¿worsened somewhat¿, ¿very unfavourable¿, ¿probably not¿, etc.). These calculations do not include the share of neutral responses (¿perhaps¿, ¿the same¿, etc.) and ¿doesn¿t know¿.
Formule %resp. (+) - %resp. (-)
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations AV ¿ Actual value (Gross value)
Last update date 29/04/2025


information presented in 2/5/2025