Notes and Guidelines
General publications30 July 2024
Methodological note on suspended questions
General publications26 April 2024
Restoration of consistent consumer survey time series for Romania
General publications8 January 2024
Methodological User Guide
General publications27 February 2020
BCS press release: Presentational changes as from February 2020
General publications16 January 2019
Restoration of consistent business and consumer survey data for Ireland
General publications21 December 2018
A revised Consumer Confidence Indicator,
General publications21 March 2014
List of 'best practice' for the conduct of business and consumer surveys
General publications14 November 2013
New question on capacity utilisation in the services sector
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Working papers
Studies documents
Financial Services Sector Survey, Report April 2017 by GfK Belgium
Workshop documents
11th Joint EC/OECD workshop on recent developments in business and consumer surveys
17-18 October 2024, Brussels
- 18 OCTOBER 2024
Christian Buelens, Staffan Lindén, EC - Self-declared and revealed inflation inattention in consumer surveys
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Eugene Chang, Emmanuelle Guidetti, Annabelle Mourougane, OECD - Hey <AI Assistant>, are we in recession now? A review of Business Cycle Turning Point Detection
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Roberta Friz, EC - Can managers' selling price expectations predict short-term developments in HICP inflation?
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Stephanie Guichard, TCB - Consumer confidence and the economy – Post-pandemic insights from the US
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Klaus Friesenbichler, Christian Glocker, Werner Hölzl, AT Wifo - The Austrian Supply Chain Pressure Index (ASCPI)
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Damian Loscher, IE IPSOS - Ireland’s economy and the challenges it poses for conducting surveys
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Anastasija Neradová, CZ CZSO - Drivers of Consumer Confidence in the Euro Area
- 18 OCTOBER 2024
Patrick Sabourin, Bank of Canada - When the future is hard to predict; the impacts of uncertainty on expectations and consumption spending
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Agnesa Nimanaj, Klaus Wohlrabe, DE IFO - Response Times in Business Surveys: When, how long, and determinants
- 17 OCTOBER 2024
Florian Dorn, Jonas Hennrich, Klaus Wohlrabe, DE IFO - Does soccer boost economic sentiment?