Why calculate a business sentiment indicator for services?

V. Brunhes-Lesage and Olivier Darné

Quarterly selection of articles - Bulletin de la Banque de France, 2008, issue 13, 21-30

Abstract: Every month, the Banque de France’s Monthly Business Survey provides a business sentiment indicator for industry. A similar indicator has been constructed for services using a comparable method that consists in extracting a factor of change that is common to all the questions in the monthly survey on services.

Keywords: business conditions analysis; survey data; services; interpolation; principal components. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C43 C82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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