Intermittent Survey of Businesses - Board

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Examples of Survey Questions
1. Do you expect your firm’s spending on new plant and equipment over the next six to twelve
months to increase, decrease, or be about unchanged relative to your actual spending over the
past six to twelve months?
2. If your firm plans to increase its spending on new plant and equipment, what are the major
factors behind your plan to increase capital spending?
3. How much of the increase in your firm’s planned spending on plant and equipment over the
next six to twelve months reflects investment that had been postponed because of the recession?
4. If your firm does not plan to increase its spending on new plant and equipment, what are the
major factors behind your plan not to increase capital spending?

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