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SME Statistics OECD Workshop

SME Statistics OECD Workshop. Item 9- Enterprise demography Merja Hult/ Eurostat. 18 September 2003. 1. Business Demography development project. Council of Lisbon targets High need for harmonised statistics on business demography at national and EU-level Challenge:

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SME Statistics OECD Workshop

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  1. SME Statistics OECD Workshop Item 9- Enterprise demography Merja Hult/ Eurostat 18 September 2003 1

  2. Business Demography development project • Council of Lisbon targets • High need for harmonised statistics on business demography at national and EU-level • Challenge: • how to produce comparable data with the tools currently available, with limited burden and in a timely fashion 18 September 2003

  3. Methodological issues • Joint methodology developed based on analysis of Business Register data • BRs – EU-legislation lead to improved quality, national sources affect coverage • Matching and manual checks used • Statistical unit: Enterprise 18 September 2003

  4. Methodological issues • Aim to produce data on genuine enterprise births and deaths • Survival is defined as continuity of activity unchanged or take-over by a new enterprise, not counting ‘birthdays’ • Activity status verified, no threshold for activity 18 September 2003

  5. Some results • Data collected for NACE sections C-O, excluding L and 74.15 (holdings) • Country availability: BE, DK, ES, IT, LU, NL, PT, FIN, SE, UK and NO • Reference years 1998-2000 for births, survival of newly born enterprises from 98-00, deaths 1997-1999 • Data presented here refer to NACE C-K 18 September 2003

  6. Newly born enterprises in 2000-share of private sector economy

  7. Births-Breakdown by size class, 2000, private sector economy

  8. Survival rates for newly born enterprises 1998-2000, in private sector economy

  9. Average number of persons employed in births

  10. Employment impact • Initial size very small • Newly born enterprises in 1998 had 1.65 million persons employed • In the participating countries, between 15-32% of ‘original’ jobs were lost due to failure to survive from 1998 to 2000 • The surviving enterprises created more jobs, growing on average by 16%

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