07/10/2009
Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
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
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
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
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
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
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
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
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
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
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
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,
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
Avg(2)
EE RO PT DK UK BG LU ES LV NL FR CZ SI HU AT FI SK IT CY SE MT
Birth Rate
Death Rate
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
Structure of
enterprise births
and
persons 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,
0
20
40
60
80
100
Avg.(2)
BG CZ DK EE ES FR IT CY LV LU HU NL AT PT RO SI SK FI SE UK CH
0
20
40
60
80
100
Avg.(2)
BG CZ DK EE ES FR IT CY LV LU HU NL AT PT RO SI SK FI SE UK CH
0 employees 1 - 4 employees 5 - 9 employees 10 or more employees
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
Structure of
enterprise deaths
and
persons 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,
0
20
40
60
80
100
Avg.(1)
BG CZ EE ES FR IT LV HU AT PT RO SI SE UK
0
20
40
60
80
100
Avg.(1)
BG CZ EE ES FR HU IT LV PT RO SE SI UK
0 employees 1 - 4 employees 5 - 9 employees 10 or more employees
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
Birth rates (HDC and EBD), Business Economy, 2006 (%)
Note. CZ, DK, LV, NL, SK, FI: 2005.
Source: Eurostat,
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
Avg RO NO BG DK EE LV NL LU AT ES FI CZ HU SE IT SK
%
EBD HDC
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
Birth rates (EBD) and its "entry by growth" share, Business Economy, 2006 (%)
Note. CZ, DK, LV, NL, SK, FI: 2005.
Source: Eurostat,
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
IT FI CZ EE ES SK DK NL SE HU NO LU BG AT RO LV
% Birth rate
"Entry by growth" share
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
Rate of high-growth enterprises measured in employment, Business Economy, 2006 (%)
Note. CZ, DK, LV, LT, NL, FI: 2005.
Source: Eurostat,
21.0 20.6 20.4
11.7
7.17.68.1
18.3
8.8 8.611.1 10.8 10.2 9.7
0
5
10
15
20
25
EE BG LV LT HU SE NO CZ FI DK NL IT LU RO
%
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
Rate of "gazelles" measured in employment, Business Economy, 2006 (%)
Note. CZ, DK, LV, LT, NL, FI: 2005.
Source: Eurostat,
2.10
1.69
1.21
0.610.650.730.76
0.350.43
0.85
0.32 0.300.19 0.14
0.82
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
BG LT LV LU HU ES EE FI DK IT NO SE RO CZ NL
%
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
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
07/10/2009 11th Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Seminar on Business Registers Session 3: Business Register as a source for further development of business demography statistics
Thank you for your attention