Definition: Survey balance

OECD - Data and Metadata Reporting

Balances (also called net balances) are used to summarise answers to multiple-choice questions in business tendency and consumer opinion surveys. "No-change" answers (such as "normal" or "same") are ignored and the balance is obtained by taking the difference between the weighted percentages of respondents giving favourable and unfavourable answers.

Source:
OECD, 2003f, "Business Tendency Surveys: A Handbook", OECD, Paris, 2003 [quoted in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), "Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook", OECD, Paris, 2007]

Created:
2009-09-18

Updated:
2019-05-10