Quarterly results from the Business Outlook Survey (BOS) are based on interviews with about 33 small firms, 33 medium-sized firms and 34 large firms. This page presents BOS data for each of these groups. For more information, see the backgrounder.
Firm sizes are defined as follows: small firms have 10 to 99 employees, medium-sized firms have 100 to 499 employees, and large firms have 500 or more employees. Because the responses are presented here as four-quarter moving averages, these charts may not show the same movements as the aggregate BOS data published each quarter.