Business surveys - NACE Rev. 2 activity - Financial services - monthly data - ei_bsbu_m_r2

Data - Eurostat

Info

Last observation: Annual: 2026M07 (N = 761)

First observation: Annual: 1980M01 (N = 76)

Last data update: 11 aoû 2026, 22:06. Last compile: 11 aoû 2026, 23:36

Structure

Construction Confidence Indicator

France, Germany, Italy, Spain

Code
ei_bsbu_m_r2 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("FR", "DE", "IT", "ES"),
         indic == "BS-CCI-BAL",
         s_adj == "SA") |>
  month_to_date() |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1990-01-01")) |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1990, 2100, 5), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Construction confidence indicator (balance, pp)") +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "black")

France: Factors Limiting Building Activity

Code
ei_bsbu_m_r2 |>
  filter(geo == "FR",
         indic %in% c("BS-FLBA2-PC", "BS-FLBA4-PC", "BS-FLBA5-PC", "BS-FLBA7-PC"),
         s_adj == "NSA") |>
  month_to_date() |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("2000-01-01")) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = Indic)) +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.position = "right", legend.title = element_blank()) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1990, 2100, 5), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Share of respondents citing factor (%)")

Latest Month by Country

Code
latest_m <- ei_bsbu_m_r2 |>
  filter(indic == "BS-CCI-BAL",
         s_adj == "SA",
         geo %in% c("FR", "DE", "IT", "ES", "EA20", "EU27_2020"),
         !is.na(values)) |>
  summarise(m = max(time)) |>
  pull(m)

ei_bsbu_m_r2 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("FR", "DE", "IT", "ES", "EA20", "EU27_2020"),
         s_adj == "SA",
         indic %in% c("BS-CCI-BAL", "BS-CEME-BAL", "BS-COB-BAL", "BS-CPE-BAL", "BS-CTA-BAL"),
         time == latest_m) |>
  select(Indic, Geo, values) |>
  spread(Geo, values) |>
  print_table_conditional()
Indic European Union - 27 countries (from 2020) France Germany Italy Spain
Building activity development over the past 3 months -1.5 -19.7 -13.6 -3.6 21.3
Construction confidence indicator -6.6 -19.3 -14.3 -2.2 15.1
Employment expectations over the next 3 months - construction 4.3 -3.4 0.0 2.4 24.8
Evolution of the current overall order books -17.5 -35.2 -28.5 -6.7 5.5
Price expectations over the next 3 months 8.6 -8.4 7.8 11.4 4.0

indic

French

Code
indic <- read_parquet("indic_fr.parquet")
ei_bsbu_m_r2 |>
  
  group_by(indic, Indic) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) |>
  print_table_conditional()
indic Indic Nobs
BS-CEME-BAL Employment expectations over the next 3 months - construction 27888
BS-COB-BAL Evolution of the current overall order books 27812
BS-CCI-BAL Construction confidence indicator 27780
BS-CTA-BAL Building activity development over the past 3 months 27470
BS-CPE-BAL Price expectations over the next 3 months 26732
BS-FLBA4-PC Factors limiting building activity - shortage of labour 22545
BS-FLBA1-PC Factors limiting building activity - none 22538
BS-FLBA5-PC Factors limiting building activity - shortage of material and/or equipment 22372
BS-FLBA3-PC Factors limiting building activity - weather conditions 22191
BS-FLBA2-PC Factors limiting building activity - insufficient demand 21971
BS-FLBA6-PC Factors limiting building activity - other 21801
BS-FLBA7-PC Factors limiting building activity - financial constraints 19279