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 Expected likelihood to buy a car over the next 12 months (Balance of extreme answers)
Characteristic Description
Name Expected likelihood to buy a car over the next 12 months (Balance of extreme answers); Quarterly
Regularity Quarterly
Source Statistics Portugal, Short-term statistics on business - consumers survey
First available period 3rd Quarter 1997
Last available period 1st Quarter 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Quarter)
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
Definition Difference between the share of positive evaluation responses (¿increased¿, ¿improved very much¿, ¿above average¿, ¿good¿, ¿yes, for sure¿, etc.) and negative evaluation responses (¿decreased¿, ¿worsened somewhat¿, ¿very unfavourable¿, ¿probably not¿, etc.). These calculations do not include the share of neutral responses (¿perhaps¿, ¿the same¿, etc.) and ¿doesn¿t know¿.
Formule

[(%resp. (++)*1.0 + %resp. (+)*0.5) - (%resp. (-)*0.5 + %resp (--)*1.0)]
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations AV ¿ Actual value (Gross value)
Last update date 29/04/2024


information presented in 16/7/2024