Business tendency survey for manufacturing, mining and quarrying, Q2 2020

Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying. Limiting factors for production. Smoothed seasonally adjusted. Per cent.¹
	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020
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)	58	58	60	63	66
Demand from home markets	25	25	26	29	31
Demand from export markets	14	14	15	17	18
Competition at the home market	11	11	10	10	9
Competition in the EU market	5	5	5	5	4
Competition when exporting to other countries	3	3	3	3	3
Capasity of the unit	8	7	6	4	3
Supply of labour	8	8	6	4	3
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	5	4	4	4	4
Other factors	3	3	5	8	10
No special factors	18	18	17	15	13

Limiting factors expected for next quarter
Demand and competition (total)	59	59	61	64	68
Demand from home markets	24	25	27	29	31
Demand from export markets	14	15	16	18	19
Competition at the home market	12	11	10	10	10
Competition in the EU market	5	6	5	5	5
Competition when exporting to other countries	3	3	3	3	3
Capasity of the unit	6	6	4	3	3
Supply of labour	8	8	6	5	3
The supply of raw materials and/or electric power	4	4	3	4	4
Other factors	2	3	6	9	10
No special factors	20	19	16	14	12

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