Business cycle surveys - August 2025
Consumer confidence declined m-o-m, while business confidence rose
Publication Date: 25. 08. 2025
Product Code: 070008-25
Business confidence in the economy increased in August in selected service sectors (+5.9 points), construction (+1.2 points) and trade (+1.1 points). In industry, it remained unchanged from July.
Consumer confidence declined m-o-m in August. The confidence indicator fell by 5.1 points to 99.0. Compared to July, the share of consumers expecting a deterioration in the overall economic situation in the Czech Republic and in their financial situation over the next twelve months increased. In addition, the number of households that assess their current financial situation as worse than in the previous twelve months increased m-o-m. The number of respondents who do not plan to make large purchases in the next twelve months remained almost unchanged.
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More detailed information on the development of business and consumer confidence can be found in the supplementary information to the RI business surveys.
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Responsible manager: Juraj Lojka, Director of Business Statistics Coordination and Business Cycle Surveys Department, tel. +420731439291, e-mail: juraj.lojka@csu.gov.cz
Contact person: Jiri Obst, Head of Business Cycle Surveys Unit, tel. +420604815440, e-mail: jiri.obst@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO business survey, Data Collect consumer survey (https://www.datacollect.cz)
Data collection date: Business part: August 19, 2025
Consumer part: August 15, 2025
Next News Release: September 24, 2025
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Detailed time series of Balances and basic indices of confidence indicators: https://csu.gov.cz/produkty/kpr_ts
Business and Consumers Surveys are co-financed by grant agreements of the European Commission DG ECFIN.
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Link to European database: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/euro-indicators/database