22 April 2010

2010- n° 109
The economic climate remains stable in the building industry in April 2010 Monthly survey of building - April 2010

According to contractors surveyed in March 2010, the situation remains stable in the building industry. The synthetic indicator of business climate takes one point to reach 92. The turning-point indicator remains in the positive zone.

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Warning: Surveys are now published under the new nomenclature of French activities, NAF rev. 2 (Revision 2). The seasonal factors were updated during this investigation.

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Balances of opinion, in %, SA

Building industry economic outlook (Balances of opinion, in %, SA)
	Mean*	Jan. 10	Feb. 10	Mar. 10	Apr. 10
Business climate	100	91	92	91	92
Past activity	0	–29	–25	–27	–30
Expected activity	–3	–23	–19	–21	–20
Gen. business outlook	–15	–31			–26
Past employment	0	–23	–22	–20	–19
Expected employment	0	–14	–16	–14	–14
Opinion on order books	–15	–49	–47	–52	–49
Order books (in month)	5,4	6,1	6,2	6,4	6,4
Productive capacity utilisation rate	89,5	86,2	86,4	86,3	86
Obstacles to production increase (in %)	33	22	22	18	17
- Because of workforce shortage(in %)	17,1	5,3	4,4	4,7	4,8
Hiring problems (in %)	62	49			52
Expected prices	–12	–42	–31	–38	–46
Cash-flow position	–5	–16			–16
Repayment period	25	23			21