May 31, 2024

Services, Retail Trade and Construction Confidence Indices in Türkiye, May 2024

Confidence index remained unchanged in services sector, decreased by 3.3% in retail trade sector, decreased by 0.3% in construction sector

Seasonally adjusted confidence index remained at the same level 117.1 in services sector, decreased by 3.3% and became 111.7 in retail trade sector and decreased by 0.3% and became 88.3 in construction sector in May compared to previous month.

Seasonally adjusted confidence indices and the rate of changes, May 2024

Index Percentage change over the previous month (%)
April May April May
Services confidence index 117.1 117.1 -2.8 0.0
Business situation over past 3 months 116.9 115.8 -2.1 -1.0
Demand-turnover over past 3 months 116.2 115.5 -3.6 -0.6
Demand-turnover expactation over next 3 months 118.2 120.1 -2.6 1.6
Retail trade confidence index 115.5 111.7 1.9 -3.3
Business activity-sales over past 3 months 136.0 125.4 3.3 -7.7
Current volume of stock(1) 89.6 92.2 -1.4 2.9
Business activity-sales expactation over next 3 months 120.9 117.4 2.9 -2.9
Construction confidence index 88.6 88.3 0.0 -0.3
Current overall order books 82.8 83.1 0.1 0.4
Total employment expactation over next 3 months 94.4 93.5 -0.1 -0.9

(1) The increase in the volume of stock index indicates the decrease of volume of stock, whereas decrease indicates increase of volume of stock.

The next release on this subject will be on June 24, 2024.


Source: Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat)
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