Business Demography: Measuring Employment Sources

1. Business Demography: the way to measure where the employment comes from 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers 6-7 October 2009, Luxembourg Aleksandra Stawińska Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

2. Business Demography – – Harmonised Data Collection: legal basis • Parliament and Council Regulation 295/2008, Annex IX • Commission Regulations:250/2009 – characteristics and transmission format 251/2009 – series of data Employer Business Demography • data collected on voluntary basis • better comparability across the countries • focus on units economically significant 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

3. Business Demography – – Harmonised Data Collection • Structural Indicators – monitoring the Lisbon Growth and Jobs Strategy Employer Business Demography & High Growth Enterprises • OECD – Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

4. Eurostat-OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics to harmonise different approaches to business demography statistics with a view to better comparability, particularly between European and other OECD countries 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

5. Difference HDC vs EBD Harmonised data collection No size threshold, coverage of non-employers Separate size class “0 employees” Births in “0 employees” not counted as employer births if they become employers later Employer business demography At least 1 employee at any time of a year Lowest size class “up to 4 employees” 2 types of birth / death Paid employee(s) in year of HDC birth / death Entry by growth / exit by decline 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

6. Enterprise birth and death rates (HDC), Business Economy, 2005 and 2006 (%) (1) (1) Birth rates for Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovenia, Finland, Slovak Republic; Cyprus and Malta: 2005; Death rates: 2005 (2) Average rates are based on data for Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Hungary, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom with reference year 2006 for birth rates and 2005 for death rates Source: Eurostat, 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

7. Structure of enterprise birthsandpersons employedin newly born enterprises by size class,(HDC)Business Economy, 2006 (1) Denmark, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Finland: 2005 (2) Average based on data for those Member States shown in figure above Source: Eurostat, 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

8. Structure of enterprise deathsandpersons employedin enterprises that died by size class,(HDC)Business Economy, 2005 (1) Average based on data for those Member States shown in figure above Source: Eurostat, 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

9. Birth rates (HDC and EBD), Business Economy, 2006 (%) Note. CZ, DK, LV, NL, SK, FI: 2005. Source: Eurostat, 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

10. Birth rates (EBD) and its "entry by growth" share, Business Economy, 2006 (%) Note. CZ, DK, LV, NL, SK, FI: 2005. Source: Eurostat, 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

11. Rate of high-growth enterprises measured in employment, Business Economy, 2006 (%) Note. CZ, DK, LV, LT, NL, FI: 2005. Source: Eurostat, 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

12. Rate of "gazelles" measured in employment, Business Economy, 2006 (%) Note. CZ, DK, LV, LT, NL, FI: 2005. Source: Eurostat, 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

13. More recent business demography data? • data based on business registers => profit - no additional burden for the enterprises => cost – timeliness • Eurostat’s study on “alternative” sources that could be used for estimation recent BD data • Member States and Eurostat – investigating possibilities 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics

14. Thank you for your attentionaleksandra.stawinska@ec.europa.eu 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics