Norway - Capacity Utilization





Norway: Capacity Utilization

Mnemonic CU.INOR
Unit % WA, SA
Adjustments Seasonally Adjusted
Quarterly
Data 2023 Q4 77.8
2023 Q3 78.3

Series Information

Source Statistics Norway
Release Business Tendency Survey (Q)
Frequency Quarterly
Start Date 3/31/1990
End Date 12/31/2023

Norway: Business

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
Business Confidence 2023 Q4 -4.9 -2.3 Balance of opinion, SA Quarterly
Capacity Utilization 2023 Q4 77.8 78.3 % WA, SA Quarterly
Change in Inventories 2023 Q4 28,042 57,066 Mil. NOK, CDASA Quarterly
Industrial Production Dec 2023 87.4 86.5 Index 2005=100, SA Monthly
Real Change in Inventories 2023 Q4 8,033 19,954 Mil. 2021 NOK, CDASA Quarterly

Release Information

Norway's quarterly Business Tendency Survey maps business leaders’ evaluations of the economic situation and the outlook for a fixed set of indicators. The results are mainly used for monitoring the economic performance during a business cycle, for analyses and for predicting the short-term development. The survey has been in regular operation from 1974 Q1.  Results are produced at the national level only.  Values are diffusion indices.

The survey is quarterly and is published around four weeks after the end of the reference quarter.

Data are collected by a questionnaire sent to a sample of branch units in mining and quarrying (10, 13-14) and manufacturing (15-37), per SIC2007 (started 2009Q1, back-calculated to 1990Q1).  SIC2002 was used until 2008Q4 (back-calculated to 1988Q1).

The seasonally-adjusted series may be revised to their full depth, from 1990.

For the trend-cycle diffusion indices, revisions may be applied to the entire time series, but are most common within the past three years.