{"title":"Dynamics of survey responses before and during the pandemic: entropy and\u0000 dissimilarity measures app","authors":"Emilia Tomczyk","doi":"10.59170/stattrans-2023-027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59170/stattrans-2023-027","url":null,"abstract":"This article is set within the framework of studies focusing on the impact of the\u0000 SARS-CoV-2 virus on the dynamics of economic activity. For the purposes of the analysis\u0000 of the expectations expressed in business tendency surveys, the paper aims to verify\u0000 whether the pandemic of 2020-2022 can be seen as just another contraction phase. Entropy\u0000 and dissimilarity measures are employed to study the characteristics of the expectations\u0000 and assessments expressed in the business tendency survey of Polish manufacturing\u0000 companies. The empirical results show that the dynamics of the manufacturing sector\u0000 data, particularly as far as general economic conditions are concerned, set the pandemic\u0000 period apart. The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic expressed in business\u0000 tendency surveys tend to be unfavourable, but the statistical properties or the degree\u0000 of the concentration of respondents’ answers do not correspond closely either to the\u0000 expansion or contraction phases of the business cycle.","PeriodicalId":37985,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Transition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41637901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}