The Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (www.ciret.org) is a global forum for leading economists and institutions that conduct and analyse business and consumer surveys. Survey data provides up-to-date information on assessments and expectations of businesses and consumers. This volume contains selected papers presented at the 25th CIRET Conference: Business Surveys and Empirical Analysis of Economic and Social Survey Data (OECD/INSEE, Paris, France, 2000).