Business services: Recent economic developments - Issue number 35/2011 - Products Statistics in Focus

An analysis of short-term services statistics

This publication looks at the role played by business services within the European economy and traces their recent development through the use of short-term business statistics (STS). It identifies a range of services that escaped the dramatic downturn associated with the crisis and shows that several of these have already seen their activity return to levels that are close to their pre-crisis highs.