In Macedonia, the Business Tendency Survey in Manufacturing industry is a qualitative survey that uses opinion-testing techniques and collects a sample of 250 business entities classified in the division No 15 to 36 of the National Classification of Activities (NACE). It collects qualitative (good, satisfactory, bad, up, unchanged, down etc.), not quantitative (numerical) data from business managers on their assessment of the current situation of the main economic indicators in their business entities and their expectations for the directions of movements of those indicators in the near future. The data is presented in the form of balances, obtained by taking the difference between weighted positive and negative answers expressed in percent.
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Actual |
Previous |
Highest |
Lowest |
Dates |
Unit |
Frequency |
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24.40 |
24.70 |
35.20 |
-35.80 |
2001 - 2022 |
points |
Monthly |
NSA
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