France services excluding interim and transport trend
France services excluding interim and transport trend stood at 1.3 Balance of opinion (%) in Sep 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the INSEE business surveys table (Value · Monthly), with a complete series running from Jan 2004 to Sep 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the INSEE business surveys table
| Indicator | 09-2026 | 08-2026 | 07-2026 | 06-2026 | 05-2026 | 04-2026 | 03-2026 | 02-2026 | 01-2026 | 12-2025 | |
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| Services | |||||||||||
| Monthly economic survey in services - Change in the situation of the enterprise over the last 3 months - All services excluding interim, excluding transport | 1.3 | 0 | -1.2 | 0.5 | 2.9 | -2 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 0.4 | -4.3 | |
| Monthly economic survey in services - Change in the situation of the enterprise over the last 3 months - All services excluding interim, including transportation | 0.7 | -0.5 | -2.7 | -0.7 | 1.7 | -1.8 | 2.1 | 1.2 | -1.4 | -4.6 |
Understanding france services excluding interim and transport trend
Commercial service providers, excluding temporary employment agencies and transportation operators, assess their three-month retrospective business performance through this filtered activity indicator. Respondents judge whether their corporate turnover, order books, and operational environment have advanced, retreated, or held steady over the preceding quarter. By deliberately stripping out both temporary workforce suppliers and logistics firms, this measure isolates core business-to-business services, information technology, real estate, and professional advisory work from sectors prone to volatile industrial linkage. This precise filtering allows researchers to observe service sector momentum without the cyclical distortions introduced by freight transport demand or interim labor fluctuations.
Evaluating this restricted series requires attention to how the removal of transport and interim work alters the sensitivity of the index to broad industrial cycles. While interim employment agencies often act as immediate shock absorbers during economic turns, excluding them creates a smoother baseline that reflects steady corporate advisory and operational support trends. Seasonal adjustments account for routine calendar quirks across the remaining professional and administrative branches. Analysts comparing this measure against the full-service aggregate should look for divergences caused by logistics bottlenecks or labor hiring swings that are filtered out here.
Frequently asked questions
- Which specific industries are excluded from this particular business situation series?
- Temporary workforce employment agencies and transportation and logistics providers are left out of this calculation.
- Why remove interim employment and transport when measuring service activity?
- Excluding them removes volatile cyclical elements tied directly to industrial manufacturing and factory hiring shifts.
- How does this filtered measure behave compared to the all-services aggregate?
- It typically displays a smoother trajectory because it avoids the sharp fluctuations characteristic of freight and temporary staffing.