Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
Results of monthly survey on business situation of small and medium-sized enterprises for May 2026
A Government spokesman said that business sentiment amongst SMEs was largely stable in May, though remained cautious due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. The current diffusion index on business receipts for SMEs improved somewhat from the preceding month, while the outlook diffusion index fell slightly. Meanwhile, the overall employment situation held steady.
The results of the survey should be interpreted with care. The survey solicits feedback from a panel sample of about 600 SMEs each month and the survey findings are thus subject to sample size constraint. Views collected from the survey refer only to those of respondents on their own companies rather than those on the respective sectors they are engaged in. Besides, in this type of opinion survey on expected business situation, the views collected in the survey are affected by the events in the community occurring around the time of enumeration, and it is difficult to establish precisely the extent to which respondents’ perception of the business situation accords with the underlying trends. For this survey, main bulk of the data were collected around the last week of the reference month.
More detailed statistics are given in the “Report on Monthly Survey on the Business Situation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises”. Users can browse and download the publication at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?pcode=B1080015&scode=300Issued at HKT 16:30
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