Investment climate; entrepreneurship international comparison 1990-2012
| Countries | Periods | Business ownership rate (% of working population) |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2012 | . |
| Austria | 2012 | . |
| Belgium | 2012 | . |
| Canada | 2012 | . |
| Czech Republic | 2012 | . |
| Denmark | 2012 | . |
| Finland | 2012 | . |
| France | 2012 | . |
| Germany | 2012 | . |
| Hungary | 2012 | . |
| Ireland | 2012 | . |
| Italy | 2012 | . |
| Japan | 2012 | . |
| The Netherlands | 2012 | . |
| Poland | 2012 | . |
| South Korea | 2012 | . |
| Spain | 2012 | . |
| Sweden | 2012 | . |
| United Kingdom | 2012 | . |
| United States | 2012 | . |
| EU-15 | 2012 | . |
| EU-25 | 2012 | . |
| EU-27 | 2012 | . |
| OECD | 2012 | . |
| Source: CBS. | ||
Table explanation
This table provides for several countries an overview of :
- business ownership rate;
- prospective and young entrepreneurship;
- firm turbulence (births and exits of enterprises, business survival rate);
- fast-growing enterprises;
- propensity towards entrepreneurship;
- self-employment rate (by sex).
High business turnover rates, many fast-growing enterprises, many young entrepreneurs and a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship are an indication of a favourable investment climate.
Note:
Comparable definitions are used to compare the figures presented internationally. The definitions sometimes differ from definitions used by Statistics Netherlands. The figures in this table could differ from Dutch figures presented elsewhere on the website of Statistics Netherlands.
Data available from 1990 up to 2012.
Status of the figures:
The external sources of these data frequently supply adjusted figures on preceding periods. These adjusted data are not mentioned as such in the table.
Changes as of 22 December 2017:
No, table is stopped.
When will new figures be published?
Not.
Description topics
- Business ownership rate
- The rate is defined as the number of entrepreneurs as a percentage of the employed and job seeking labour force. Entrepreneurs are defined as: all owners of companies managing the company and where for the concerning persons entrepreneurship is the main activity. This definition includes therefore both self-employed persons of non-legal bodies, and directors/large shareholders of legal persons. The rate excludes the agricultural sector.
Source: EIM, on the basis of Labour Force Statistics database (LFS) of the OECD and additional figures of Eurostat.
The OECD uses no uniform definition of entrepreneur in the LFS, but the definition in use in the country concerned. The result is that country
figures are not fully comparable. Besides, the statistic has a lot of breaks in the time series. EIM has developed a method to compare data from several countries with each other on the basis of an uniform definition. EIM examined which definition of an entrepreneur is used by the various countries in various statistics. Then for one year raising factors, c.q. split-off factors have been determined per country (mostly for the year 1992) to reach an uniform definition. In some countries (among which The Netherlands and the USA) estimates have been made for the directors/large shareholders, whereas for some other countries estimates have been made of the so-called cooperating family members who have been deducted from the number of entrepreneurs in the statistics. The raising factors and split-off factors have been kept constant in the time for a number of countries for lack of information per year. In addition, corrections have been made for the time series discontinuities in the OECD material by taking in the year of the times series discontinuity the average development of the preceding and the following year as the growth figure. Up to 1991 Germany refers only to West Germany. The later years concern the reunified Germany.