Why calculate a business sentiment indicator for services?.

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.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Brunhes-Lesage, V. ; Darné, O.
Published in:	Quarterly selection of articles - Bulletin de la Banque de France. - Banque de France. - 2008, 13, p. 21-30
Publisher:	Banque de France
Subject:	business conditions analysis \| survey data \| services \| interpolation \| principal components

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C22 - Time-Series Models ; C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation ; C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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