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 Opportunity to make major purchases (Seasonal adjusted balance)
Characteristic Description
Name Opportunity to make major purchases (Seasonal adjusted balance); Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Short-term statistics on business - consumers survey, 2025
First available period September 1997
Last available period August 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
Concepts
  • 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).
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
  • DURABLE GOODS:  Economic goods acquired or produced by a statistical unit with a useful life of more than one year.
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 unfavourable", "probably not", etc.). These calculations do not include the share of neutral responses ("perhaps", "the same", etc.) and "doesn"t know".
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 28/08/2025


information presented in 17/9/2025