Synthetic Indicators of Economic Activity for Poland Based on the Ried Survey Data (1999)

This is a follow-up study to an earlier analysis by the author, presented in 1998. Eight altemative formulas of a generał indicator of economic activity for Poland, based on survey data and resembling the EU concept of economic sentiment indicator, have been developed and tested in this study. All of them were filled with the RIED survey data for industry, construction and trade, supplemented by consumer sentiment indicator provided by RIED or Demoskop and by the Warsaw Stock Exchange share - price - index. The resulting time series of generał indicator, covering the period ffom November 1993 till December 1998, have been analyzed, using XII-ARIMA and CCF procedures, in order to find the most adeąuate formula. Cyclical components of the generał indicator ZHG have been conffonted with the reference index of economic activity GCI, developed by the author. As the result, three variants of the generał indicator have been selected for further testing. The finał choice will be madę in the course of the forthcoming analysis