Profitability, year-on-year (from 2018-Q3, replacing the quarter-on-quarter question - see PROFITABILITY_QOQ): respondents' expectation
Business Sentiment Index (BSI). Index, quarterly.
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Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, BSI Series (11 Sep 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.IND.BSI.PROFITABILITY_YOY_EXPECT.Q · CC BY 4.0
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- Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Index
- Date range 2018 Q4 – 2026 Q3
- Last checked 11 Sep 2026
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- Business Sentiment Index (BSI): Profitability, year-on-year (from 2018-Q3, replacing the quarter-on-quarter question - see PROFITABILITY_QOQ): respondents' expectation
- Read from
- CBSL business surveys (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
- Source page
- https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/economic-indicators/business-surveys
- Notes
- The survey's own paired row for this indicator: 'BSIs presented in the above table are realised numbers while the numbers given within parenthesis show the respondents' expectations for the relevant quarter given during the preceding quarter' (the file's footnote (a), paraphrased here to avoid the source's mis-encoded apostrophe). A different, net-balance-style scale from the realised index above it - empirically always negative in this file, roughly -160 to -10 - not an error.
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One vintage so far, published 11 Sep 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.