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 Evaluation of the volume of stock currently hold (Balance of extreme answers) for trade
Characteristic Description
Name Evaluation of the volume of stock currently hold (Balance of extreme answers) for trade by Type of trade; Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Short-term statistics on business - trade survey
First available period January 1989
Last available period April 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Type of trade
Concepts
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • INVENTORIES:  Assets consisting of goods and services produced in the current or in a previous financial year, for sale, production or another use at a later date. They consist of raw materials, consumables, products and work in process, finished products and products for resale. They include all stocks held by the central government, comprising, although not exclusively the stocks of strategic materials, grain and other goods of special importance to the country.
Definition Difference between the share of positive evaluation responses ("increased", "improved very much", "above average", "good", "yes, for sure", etc.) and negative evaluation responses ("decreased", "worsened somewhat", "very unfavorable", "probably not", etc.). These calculations do not include the share of neutral responses and "doesn't know".
Formule %resp. (+) - %resp. (-)
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations AV - Actual value (Gross value)
Last update date 29/04/2025


information presented in 30/4/2025