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 Qualitative indicator of the expected creation of employment (Balance of extreme answers) by enterprises
Characteristic Description
Name Qualitative indicator of the expected creation of employment (Balance of extreme answers) by enterprises; Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Short-term statistics on business, 2025
First available period January 2003
Last available period April 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • BALANCE:  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".;
  • 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.
  • 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).
Definition Synthetic indicator estimated using balances of questions about the expected evolution of employment from the Manufacturing Industry, Trade, Construction and Public Works and Services Surveys. The weights used reflect the structure of employees (measured in persons) of the Annual National Accounts.Values are seasonally adjusted.
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 29/04/2025


information presented in 5/5/2025