Monthly

Data collection is by post and via the internet over a period that extends from the end of the month preceding the survey month to the survey publication date, i.e. 4 business days before the end of the current month.

Survey results are sent to the European Commission 4 business days before the end of the month.

The collection period runs from the end of the month preceding the reference month of the survey to the date of publication of the results (between the 20th and 25th of the reference month).

Survey of a sample of 4,500 enterprises in services and road haulage of goods.

Since May 2023, the survey has been addressed to all companies whose annuel turnover is in excess of €55 million for services or road haulage activities.

4,500 units

The survey is conducted every month but not all questions are asked every month. Some questions are only asked to enterprises in road haulage of goods.  

The survey questionnaires consists of a common core of monthly questions to which are added, depending on the month, some quarterly, biannual or annual questions.

Sample questionnaires to be published : march to december.

The published series are seasonally adjusted (CVS). Seasonality tests are carried out on all series. As a result, the published series are seasonally adjusted (CVS). A series that initially has no seasonal character is presented as a CVS series with zero coefficients and is equal to the gross series. The effects are estimated with the X13 and TramoSeats software under JDemetra+ (provided by Eurostat) at the level of aggregates specific to the NAF rev. 2 subclass survey. CVS indices for senior positions are obtained directly, not by aggregating the CVS indices that compose them.