21 January 2011

2011- n° 19
The economic climate is wavering in the building industry in January 2011 Monthly survey of building - january 2011

According to the contractors interviewed in January 2011 the economic climate remains wavering in the building industry. The synthetic indicator of business climate loses a point and the turning-point indicator indicates a unfavorable climate .

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Balances of opinion, in %, SA

Building industry economic outlook (Balances of opinion, in %, SA)
	Mean*	Oct. 10	Nov. 10	Dec. 10	Jan. 11
Business climate	100	95	97	99	98
Past activity	0	–16	–17	–8	–12
Expected activity	–3	–5	1	–1	–2
Gen. business outlook	–15	–12			–10
Past employment	–1	–14	–6	–3	–5
Expected employment	0	–8	–4	–1	1
Opinion on order books	–16	–41	–36	–32	–32
Order books (in month)	5,4	6,4	6,5	6,8	6,8
Productive capacity utilisation rate	89,4	85,2	85,9	87,6	86,6
Obstacles to production increase (in %)	32	12	14	27	21
- Because of workforce shortage(in %)	16,6	4,3	4,6	5,6	4,8
Hiring problems (in %)	62	55			58
Expected prices	–13	–40	–35	–32	–33
Cash-flow position	–6	–17			–16
Repayment period	25	29			32