Eurostat Business & Consumer Confidence — Monthly

Official source. No API key. Pay per record.

This actor turns Eurostat's business and consumer confidence indicators (dataset ei_bsco_m) into clean, per-record data. Each run reads the figures directly from Eurostat's public JSON-stat dissemination API and delivers one record per observation — the country, the specific confidence indicator, the seasonal-adjustment variant, the unit, the month, and the balance value, verbatim from the source. These are survey balance indicators (the net share of respondents answering positively versus negatively), published monthly. They are sentiment readings, not levels, prices, or forecasts.

Who buys this and for what job

• Economists and macro analysts tracking sentiment turning-points across EU economies each month.
• Investment and research teams feeding official confidence balances into nowcasting and models.
• Journalists and policy teams who need the exact monthly balances with seasonal-adjustment variants intact.
• Data engineers wanting a keyless, one-call monthly series for a pipeline.

The job it does: get the official business and consumer confidence series as rows — reliably, with provenance, and without an account or key at the source.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "M:BS-CSMCI:NSA:BAL:AL:2024-01",
  "dataset_code": "ei_bsco_m",
  "indicator": "Business and consumer confidence",
  "freq": "M",
  "freq_label": "Monthly",
  "indic": "BS-CSMCI",
  "indic_label": "Consumer confidence indicator",
  "s_adj": "NSA",
  "s_adj_label": "Unadjusted data (i.e. neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)",
  "unit": "BAL",
  "unit_label": "Balance",
  "geo": "AL",
  "geo_label": "Albania",
  "time": "2024-01",
  "time_label": "2024-01",
  "value": -12.8,
  "obs_status": null,
  "source": "Eurostat",
  "source_dataset": "ei_bsco_m",
  "licence": "Eurostat, CC BY 4.0. Reformatted from Eurostat JSON-stat; values unmodified. Third-party content and logos excluded. Commercial-barred geographies removed.",
  "attribution": "Source: Eurostat (dataset ei_bsco_m)",
  "caveat": "Survey balance/diffusion indicators — not levels, prices, or forecasts. Seasonal-adjustment variants included verbatim. Monthly cadence. An indicator, not a prediction.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:22:23Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event. One event: a delivered record. Tiered by your Apify plan; the record is delivered before it is charged. No start fee, no subscription. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
confidence_observation_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
sinceTimePeriod	string	2024	Earliest period to return. Earlier start = more history and more records.
maxRecords	integer	10	Ceiling on records delivered and billed. The default is a fast bounded sample; raise it to pull the full set.

Both are optional; the default run is a bounded sample that finishes quickly so you can see the shape before scaling up.

Output

One JSON object per observation. Every dimension is emitted as a code and a label, both verbatim from Eurostat; a composite record_id uniquely identifies each row so no two source observations collapse together. Example record from a real run:

{
  "record_id": "M:BS-CSMCI:NSA:BAL:AL:2024-01",
  "dataset_code": "ei_bsco_m",
  "indicator": "Business and consumer confidence",
  "freq": "M",
  "freq_label": "Monthly",
  "indic": "BS-CSMCI",
  "indic_label": "Consumer confidence indicator",
  "s_adj": "NSA",
  "s_adj_label": "Unadjusted data (i.e. neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)",
  "unit": "BAL",
  "unit_label": "Balance",
  "geo": "AL",
  "geo_label": "Albania",
  "time": "2024-01",
  "time_label": "2024-01",
  "value": -12.8,
  "obs_status": null,
  "source": "Eurostat",
  "source_dataset": "ei_bsco_m",
  "licence": "Eurostat, CC BY 4.0. Reformatted from Eurostat JSON-stat; values unmodified. Third-party content and logos excluded. Commercial-barred geographies removed.",
  "attribution": "Source: Eurostat (dataset ei_bsco_m)",
  "caveat": "Survey balance/diffusion indicators — not levels, prices, or forecasts. Seasonal-adjustment variants included verbatim. Monthly cadence. An indicator, not a prediction.",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z"
}

Every run also writes an unbilled RUN_RECEIPT to the run's key-value store: the robots check, the source URL, how many observations were present, delivered, excluded as missing or as commercial-barred geographies, and whether charged equals delivered.

Cost guidance

One confidence_observation_record is billed per delivered observation, so cost = records pulled × your plan's per-record price. The full permitted set from 2024 is roughly 25,800 records — about $1,290 on the Free-plan rate, or about $864 at the Gold-tier rate. The ten-record Store example is about $0.50 (Free) or $0.34 (Gold). You control volume with sinceTimePeriod and maxRecords.

Honest limitations and caveats

• It is an indicator, not a forecast, price, or level — a balance of +5 is a survey net-balance, not a growth rate.
• Cadence: monthly. Recent months may be revised in later releases (living source).
• Seasonal-adjustment variants are distinct rows; read the s_adj field before comparing.
• Coverage is licence-limited by design. Eurostat permits commercial reuse only for EU, EFTA, and official acceding/candidate countries; geographies outside that set are excluded at ingest and counted in the run receipt. This is a compliance choice, not a data gap.
• Missing observations are excluded, never invented; published zeros are kept as real values.
• Values, units, statuses, and dimension codes are reproduced verbatim — never rescaled, relabelled, or re-derived.

Input fields

Every input this actor accepts, read from its input schema:

Field	Type	Default	Description
sinceTimePeriod	string	"2024"	Return observations from this period onward (e.g. 2024). Earlier = more records.
maxRecords	integer	10	Maximum records delivered and billed. You are billed only for records delivered. Raise to pull the full set.

Default changed on 30 Sep 2026: if you leave maxRecords out, a run now returns up to 10 records (it was 500). Set maxRecords yourself to get more — the maximum is unchanged.

Output fields

Every field in each delivered record, read from its output schema:

Field	Type	Meaning
record_id	string	Composite source-native key across all dimensions.
dataset_code	string	Eurostat dataset code.
indicator	string	Indicator name.
freq	string	Time frequency dimension code, verbatim.
freq_label	string	Time frequency dimension label, verbatim.
indic	string	Indicator dimension code, verbatim.
indic_label	string	Indicator dimension label, verbatim.
s_adj	string	Seasonal adjustment dimension code, verbatim.
s_adj_label	string	Seasonal adjustment dimension label, verbatim.
unit	string	Unit of measure dimension code, verbatim.
unit_label	string	Unit of measure dimension label, verbatim.
geo	string	Geopolitical entity (reporting) dimension code, verbatim.
geo_label	string	Geopolitical entity (reporting) dimension label, verbatim.
time	string	Time dimension code, verbatim.
time_label	string	Time dimension label, verbatim.
value	number	Observation value, verbatim (published zeros kept).
obs_status	string	Eurostat observation status/flag when present, verbatim.
source	string	Data source (Eurostat).
source_dataset	string	Source dataset code.
licence	string	Licence and reformatting notice.
attribution	string	Required attribution string.
caveat	string	Scope caveat (what it is and is not).
observed_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.

FAQ

How much does it cost? You pay $0.05 per confidence observation record delivered to your dataset (less on higher Apify plans). Set the record limit in the input to cap what a run can cost. Records that are not delivered are never charged.

How do I get the data out? Every run saves its records to an Apify dataset. You can download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the run page, or read it through the Apify API.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run it daily, weekly or monthly, with the same input each time.

Can I call it from my own code? Yes. Call nexgensignal/eurostat-business-confidence through the Apify API or the Apify Python and JavaScript clients, pass the same JSON input as the form, and read the dataset when the run finishes.

What happens if the source is down? The run ends with a clear status message, and nothing is charged for records that were not delivered.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of official-source, per-record Eurostat products. Its live siblings on the store — all official source, no API key, values verbatim, pay per record:

• Eurostat House Price Index
• Eurostat Waste Generation
• Eurostat Waste Treatment
• Eurostat Income Distribution (EU-SILC)

Source: Eurostat. Reformatted from the Eurostat JSON-stat dissemination API; values unmodified. Third-party content and logos excluded. Data for geographies outside EU/EFTA/candidate countries is excluded in line with Eurostat's reuse terms.