The collection of figures – of the economic cycle variables in their entirety, such as production, consumption, investment – as well as the collection, to the greatest possible extent, of all the individual components that make them up, above all prices, capacity utilization ratios, labor market data, exchange rates, – with the aim of gaining insight into the driving forces of economic activity in an area. – In the EU, a uniform statistical classification is required in all participating countries. The main results of the euro area survey are presented in the annex “Euro area statistics” of the respective ECB Monthly Bulletin, preceded by “Overview of economic indicators for the euro area”. – See Purchasing Managers’ Survey, Survey of Professional Forecasters, Business Cycle Forecast, Crisis Foreshadow, Forecast Model, Job Advertisements Index. – Cf. ECB Monthly Bulletin of April 2009, pp. 46 et seq. (changes in short-term statistics; in the notes also legal sources; overviews), ECB Monthly Bulletin of August 2009, pp. 68 et seq. (difficulties in recording short-term indicators; overviews), ECB Monthly Bulletin of November 2009, pp. 105 et seq. (business cycles historically and in relation to parts of the world), Monthly Report of the Deutsche Bundesbank of July 2011, p. 64 ff. (quality requirements for short-term statistics), Monthly Report of the Deutsche Bundesbank of November 2012, p. 12 ff. (weight and influence of the euro area in the global economy), Monthly Report of the ECB of April 2013, p. 51 ff. (new reference year for indices and weights in short-term statistics).
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