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CBI Industrial Trends Survey – full results


The UK's longest-running business survey

With a formidable 46-year reputation for timeliness and accuracy, the Industrial Trends Survey of UK manufacturing is regularly used by policy makers at the Treasury and the Bank of England, the business community, academics and top analysts in financial markets. It is the longest-running private sector indicator of UK manufacturing trends.

Quarterly surveys
The quarterly survey – conducted in January, April, July and October – gives expert qualitative opinion from senior manufacturing executives, on past and expected trends in output, exports, prices, costs; investment intentions, business confidence and capacity utilisation.

Key strengths:

  • Released within ten days and prior to official statistics
  • Indicates recent trends and short term expectations
  • Based on consistent and valuable subjective business opinion
  • Publishes data not covered by official sources
  • Never revised, unlike official data

Detailed data covers:
  • Total UK manufacturing
  • Small, medium and large companies
  • 12 broad industry groups
  • 50 individual industries
  • Scotland and Wales
The importance of this survey work is reflected in the CBI's regular supply of data to the European Commission's harmonised business survey of EU countries. The CBI acknowledges the EU's financial support for the technical development and supply of this data, which is published in harmonised form in The European Economy Journal.

All participants in this survey receive a free summary of results for their sector.

Surveys are published each month and a quarterly analysis is also published. The prices shown below are for quarterly subscriptions.

Go to the survey release dates page.


Prices Full subscription Single copies
CBI members: £ 285.00 £ 75.00
Non-members: £ 495.00 £ 130.00

Frequency: Quarterly

Combined surveys
In addition to the quarterly analysis, you can also subscribe to monthly updates. The monthly survey provides a vital interim health check on orders, stocks, price and output expectations. Prices for the combined monthly and quarterly Industrial Trends Survey – full results are below.

Prices Full subscription Single copies
CBI members: £ 435.00 £ 45.00
Non-members: £ 695.00 £ 65.00

Frequency: Monthly

There is no postage and packing charge for full subscription purchases. Single survey publication purchases attract a postage and packing charge of £1.50 per item within the UK. International and bulk orders may be subject to different postage rates.

Please read ordering information before proceeding.

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Click on this link to order the survey.

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