Business tendency survey for manufacturing, mining and quarrying, Q1 2017

Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying. Limiting factors for production. Smoothed seasonally adjusted. Per cent.¹
	1st quarter 2016	2nd quarter 2016	3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017
¹The results are percentages estimated for important limiting factors for production in current quarter or expected limiting factors for next quarter.
Limiting factors in current quarter
Demand and competition (total)	73	71	71	71	70
Demand from home markets	31	30	30	30	31
Demand from export markets	18	18	18	18	17
Competition at the home market	13	12	12	13	13
Competition in the EU market	6	6	6	6	6
Competition when exporting to other countries	4	4	4	4	4
Capasity of the unit	6	6	6	5	5
Supply of labour	2	2	2	2	3
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	3	3	3	3	3
Other factors	3	3	3	2	3
No special factors	13	15	15	15	14

Limiting factors expected for next quarter
Demand and competition (total)	73	72	71	70	69
Demand from home markets	31	31	30	30	30
Demand from export markets	19	19	19	18	17
Competition at the home market	13	12	12	12	12
Competition in the EU market	6	6	6	6	6
Competition when exporting to other countries	4	4	4	4	4
Capasity of the unit	4	4	4	4	5
Supply of labour	2	2	2	3	3
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	3	3	3	3	3
Other factors	3	3	2	2	2
No special factors	14	16	17	17	17

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