Job Statistics

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 June 2012

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Ceisteanna (58)

Finian McGrath

Ceist:

129 Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Taoiseach the number of small businesses here that employ three to 12 persons. [30388/12]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (Deputy Paul Kehoe)

The number of enterprises active in the private business economy during 2010 is set out below:

Active Enterprises by Persons Engaged Size Class, 2010, Business economy excluding activities of holding companies (B to N,-642)

Size class	Active Enterprises (Number)
All persons engaged size classes	195,431
Under 10	177,547
10-19	9,769
20-49	5,215
50-249	2,441
250 and over	459
3-12 persons engaged	37,488

The private business economy covers Industry, Construction and Services in NACE Rev 2 sectors B-N (excluding 64.20 "Activities of holding companies"). Enterprises in the Public Sector, Health, Education and Agriculture are not included.

Enterprises are counted as active if they have employees or file a tax return for the reference year.

"Persons engaged" includes employees, proprietors and family members.

Detailed data tables are available on CSO's data dissemination service at:http://cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/80.

The Background Notes at the link below provide more details on the Business Demography release:http://www.cso.ie/en/surveysandmethodology/multi-sectoral/businessdemography/backgroundnotes/.