This survey is the only UK manufacturing business survey with a supplementary quarterly release for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) – the SME Trends Survey. The supplement provides insight into business conditions for smaller manufacturing firms. Capturing business sentiment in the way it does the survey provides a powerful early signal to inform forecasts of the economic outlook of the UK's manufacturing sector.

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Survey Snapshot


Frequency

Monthly

Launched

1958

Sectors

Manufacturing


Outputs

Headlineindicators

Timeseriesdata

Publication

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