Bureau of National statistics
Agency for Strategic planning and reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Statistics of conjuncture surveys 
78% of industry leaders in the first quarter of 2023 described their economic situation as “good” or “satisfactory”.
68% of enterprises expect the financial and economic activity to remain unchanged compared to the current moment, 10% - improvement and 16% - deterioration.
65% of heads of trade enterprises in the first quarter of 2023 described their economic situation as “good” or “satisfactory”.
57% of enterprises expect the financial and economic activity to remain unchanged compared to the current moment, 8% - improvement and 23% - deterioration.
According to a survey of trade enterprises in the I quarter of 2023, there is an improvement in business activity associated with an increase in consumer demand.
Sales by type of sales in the I quarter of 2023 amounted to:
·wholesale trade -20%
·retail trade -19%;
·through the electronic trading platform -6%;
·outside the electronic trading platform -23%.
58% of the heads of construction enterprises in the first quarter of 2023 described their economic situation as “good” or “satisfactory”.
52% of enterprises expect the financial and economic activity to remain unchanged compared to the current moment, 6% - improvement and 27% - deterioration.
4724 heads of enterprises in the first quarter of 2023 noted the factors limiting their production activities:
The survey on the relevance of the ESG criteria (environmental, social, corporate governance) for the first quarter of 2023 was answered by 2525 enterprises, of which 311 enterprises in the regional breakdown responded positively. The largest number of those familiar with ESG criteria (environmental, social, corporate governance) Almaty -34 and Karaganda -32 enterprises.
An analysis of the ESG criteria shows that 72% of enterprises in the republic do not adhere to environmental criteria, 69% do not adhere to corporate governance criteria, while at the same time, 71% of enterprises comply with social criteria.
The index of entrepreneurial confidence of industrial enterprises is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the “balances” of assessments of the level of actual demand and stocks of finished products (the latter with the opposite sign), as well as expected changes in production volumes, in percent.
The Business Confidence Index of trade enterprises is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the “balances” of estimates of the level of the actual economic situation and stocks (the latter with the opposite sign), as well as expected changes in the economic situation, in percent.
The index of business confidence of construction enterprises is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the “balances” of assessments of the actual state of the portfolio of orders, and the expected change in the number of employees in organizations, in percent. The balance should be understood as the difference in the shares of respondents who noted the "increase" and "decrease" of a particular indicator of the economic activity of the surveyed enterprise, as a percentage.
