1. Business Cycle Factsheet
Wouter Jonkers
Statistics Netherlands
November 6th, 2009

2. Background
Monitoring business cycle in general and economic crisis in particular;
Main finding:
Most important lack not: number of indicators and timeliness;
But: “Statistical storytelling”

3. Purpose business cycle factsheet
- To provide an overall picture with coherent sets of monthly statistics
More rapidly than the quarterly national accounts.

4. Components Business Cycle Factsheet

5. And now on line

6. General features
In statistical system between monthly statistics and national (quarterly) accounts
Realtime; “pictures” are never revised
Visualizations/interactive: easy to “read” and interpret

7. Future plans - More radars and coherent indicator sets:
labour market tension gauge
radars for fixed capital formation and household consumption.
More indicators on a monthly basis:
Fixed capital formation
Stocks of finished products.

8. Business Cycle Tracer

9. Business Cycle Dashboard

10. Business Cycle tracer indicator

11. Exports Radar