The information sought by the Deputy is not available through the CSO in the format requested. Enterprise Demography Statistics are, however, compiled by the CSO under the Structural Business Statistics Regulation (EC) No. 295/2008 which entered into force in late 2007. The latest CSO Business Demography returns for 2008 were published on 20 September 2010 and the Table contains information in relation to business start ups listing enterprise births from 2006 until 2008. The CSO identifies potential enterprise births by using available economic indicators from administrative data (Revenue Trading returns in Corporate, Income, Employment and VAT activity).
The CSO Business Demography Statistics coverage includes the following Economic sectors described using the NACE 2 Economic activity classification.
B — Mining and quarrying
C — Manufacturing
D — Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
E — Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
F — Construction
G — Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
H — Transportation and storage
I — Accommodation and food service activities
J — Information and communication
K* — Financial and insurance activities
L — Real estate activities
M — Professional, scientific and technical activities
N — Administrative and support service activities.
*NACE code 64.20Activities of holding companies is excluded from sector K.
For the purposes of the CSO Business Demography Statistics an enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise birth amounts to the creation of a combination of production factors with the restriction that no other enterprises are involved in the event. Births do not include entries into the population due to mergers, break-ups, split-off or restructuring of a set of enterprises nor does it include entries into a sub-population resulting only from a change of activity.
Table — New Enterprises (Births)
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Enterprise Births (Number)
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2006
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2007
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2008
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All SMEs (0-249 employees)
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16,900
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13,294
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11,782
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Micro enterprises (0-9 employees)
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16,827
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13,226
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11,688
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Small and Medium enterprises (10-249 employees)**
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73
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68
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94
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**The categories "Small enterprises (10-49 employees)" and "Medium enterprises (10-249 employees)" have been merged for Enterprise Birth data to protect confidentiality of individual enterprises.
