Business tendency survey for manufacturing, mining and quarrying, Q1 2013

Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying. Limiting factors for production. Smoothed seasonally adjusted. Per cent.¹
	1st quarter 2012	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012	4th quarter 2012	1st quarter 2013
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)	64	63	64	64	65
Demand from home markets	27	27	27	28	28
Demand from export markets	17	17	17	17	16
Competition at the home market	11	11	11	11	11
Competition in the EU market	6	6	6	6	7
Competition when exporting to other countries	3	3	3	3	3
Capasity of the unit	7	7	7	6	6
Supply of labour	7	8	8	7	6
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	4	4	3	3	2
Other factors	3	2	3	3	3
No special factors	13	13	14	15	15

Limiting factors expected for next quarter
Demand and competition (total)	65	65	65	66	68
Demand from home markets	28	28	27	27	27
Demand from export markets	18	17	17	17	18
Competition at the home market	11	11	11	11	12
Competition in the EU market	6	6	7	7	7
Competition when exporting to other countries	3	3	4	4	4
Capasity of the unit	6	6	6	6	5
Supply of labour	7	7	7	7	6
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	4	4	4	3	3
Other factors	3	2	2	2	2
No special factors	14	14	14	14	14

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