Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 November 2018
129. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of enterprises here by firm size (details supplied); the percentage in each category as a proportion of total enterprises; and the number of employees in each such firm size category based on the latest CSO data in tabular form. [50041/18]
View answerThe data requested by the Deputy is collected by the Central Statistics Office, which is under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach.
In this regard, the Department of the Taoiseach have informed me that the latest Business Demography data was published on the CSO website on July 4th 2018, with reference year 2016, and is available at
www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/bd/businessdemography2016.
The information in this release covers the private business economy, which is NACE Rev 2 Sectors B-N (excluding K64.20 Activities of holding companies).
The information requested by the deputy for reference year 2016 is in the table below. Persons engaged include employees, proprietors and family members. Persons engaged are the sum of Employees plus Working Proprietors. If an individual is paid a wage for any segment of a reference year they are included in the overall figures. Further breakdowns are available at
www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Database/eirestat/Business%20Demography/Business%20Demography_statbank.asp?sp=Business%20Demography&Planguage=0.
|
Size Class |
Enterprises |
% of Total |
Employees |
%of Total |
Persons Engaged |
% of Total |
|
Under 10 |
229,534 |
91.8% |
252,709 |
18.9% |
392,829 |
26.6% |
|
10-49 |
16,914 |
6.8% |
324,539 |
24.3% |
327,572 |
22.2% |
|
50-249 |
3,003 |
1.2% |
290,275 |
21.7% |
290,604 |
19.7% |
|
250+ |
582 |
0.2% |
466,774 |
35.0% |
467,231 |
31.6% |
|
Total |
250,033 |
100.0% |
1,334,927 |
100.0% |
1,478,326 |
100.0% |
