Business tendency survey for manufacturing, mining and quarrying, Q1 2020

Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying. Limiting factors for production. Smoothed seasonally adjusted. Per cent.¹
	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020
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)	59	58	58	60	62
Demand from home markets	26	25	25	26	28
Demand from export markets	15	14	14	15	16
Competition at the home market	11	11	11	10	10
Competition in the EU market	5	5	5	5	5
Competition when exporting to other countries	3	3	3	3	3
Capasity of the unit	7	8	7	6	5
Supply of labour	7	8	8	6	6
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	4	5	4	4	4
Other factors	3	3	3	4	5
No special factors	18	18	18	17	16

Limiting factors expected for next quarter
Demand and competition (total)	60	59	60	61	63
Demand from home markets	26	24	25	27	29
Demand from export markets	14	14	15	16	17
Competition at the home market	12	12	11	10	9
Competition in the EU market	5	5	6	5	5
Competition when exporting to other countries	3	3	3	3	3
Capasity of the unit	7	6	6	5	4
Supply of labour	7	8	7	6	5
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	4	4	4	4	4
Other factors	2	2	3	6	8
No special factors	20	20	19	17	15

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