The largest recurring German enterprise survey programme

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The largest recurring German enterprise survey programme: monthly and quarterly business tendency questionnaires answered by roughly 9,000 firms across manufacturing, construction, wholesale, retail and services, capturing current business situation and six-month expectations, capacity utilisation, employment plans, pricing plans and input-cost expectations, and — critically for industrial demand work — order backlog (Auftragsbestandsreichweite expressed in months) and order position by sector and size class. Delivered as seasonally adjusted balance series and diffusion indices, with identifiable firm-level microdata held by the LMU-ifo Economics & Business Data Center.

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Industry: Research & Consulting Services
Instruments: equitiesfixed_income
Categories: Alternative

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular — monthly/quarterly index and diffusion series downloads plus survey documentation, with firm-level microdata released as scientific use files through the research data centre
Volume: Order of 100,000 firm-response records per year (about 9,000 firms x 12 monthly waves), i.e. several million firm-wave observations over the post-war history, plus index and diffusion series for multiple sectors and size classes across more than 800 monthly periods.
Users: ~9,000 responding enterprises form the standing survey panel, drawn from manufacturing, construction, wholesale, retail and services; downstream data users are institutional subscribers to paid survey products and research-data-centre applicants rather than a registered consumer base.
History: 70 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — monthly releases continuing through 2026, with a standing survey programme, a dedicated macro and surveys centre, and a research data centre supplying microdata to external researchers.
Launched: 1950s — the ifo business climate survey is one of the oldest continuously run enterprise sentiment surveys in the world and the institute's flagship instrument since the 1950s; the survey-results portal and the LMU-ifo research data centre are far more recent layers over that archive.
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