Comparability

Comparability - geographical

The statistics is carried out in collaboration with the EU-commission, and the same survey is carried out in other EU-countries. Please refer to (DG ECFIN).

Comparability over time

As of august 2014 the questionnaires were harmonized with the DG ECFIN guidelines. This led to breaks in the timelines for certain indicators regarding stock of finished products and order books.

Changes in the NACE has to be taken into account when comparing older time series with current ones. Longer historic series can be found in the ECFIN database.

Coherence - cross domain

The Business Tendency Survey is a supplement to other short-term statistics. Weighted together with tendency indicators from the construction survey, services survey, retail trade survey and consumer survey the industry indicators forms the "Tillidsindikator" similar to the Economic Sentiment Indicator published by the EU commission. Also the "Erhvervstillidsindikator" (business sentiment indicator) consisting only of indicators form the businesses is calculated. The figures are published in the Statbank. The EU is describing the methodology here in user guide.

Coherence - internal

The data set to the survey is consistent.