Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

SIC 2008 Legal forms Periods Enterprises Total (aantal) Enterprises Births (aantal) Enterprises Deaths (aantal) Enterprise population Persons employed (aantal) Enterprise population Employees (aantal) Newly born enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Newly born enterprises Employees (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Employees (aantal)
Business Economy, B-N, excl. K, incl. 95 Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Business Economy, B-N, excl. K, incl. 95 Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Business Economy, B-N, excl. K, incl. 95 Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Business Economy, B-N, excl. K, incl. 95 Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
M Other specialised business services Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 417,435 42,868 17,672 759,490 539,014 22,570 3,087 5,967 410
M Other specialised business services Sole proprietorship 2021* 295,973 32,201 14,810 191,951 15,330 16,653 63 4,631 67
M Other specialised business services Limited liability enterprises 2021* 93,827 8,330 1,075 477,923 457,465 3,689 2,812 189 169
M Other specialised business services Partnership, etc. 2021* 27,635 2,337 1,787 89,615 66,219 2,227 212 1,147 174
702 Management and business consultancy Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 146,299 15,988 6,416 169,939 94,308 9,189 1,684 . .
702 Management and business consultancy Sole proprietorship 2021* 103,193 12,263 5,435 62,039 2,749 6,304 12 1,636 35
702 Management and business consultancy Limited liability enterprises 2021* 36,397 2,998 487 96,622 86,015 . . . .
702 Management and business consultancy Partnership, etc. 2021* 6,709 727 494 11,278 5,544 . . 290 27
7022 Management en business consultancy Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
7022 Management en business consultancy Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
7022 Management en business consultancy Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
7022 Management en business consultancy Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
74 Other specialised business services Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 102,481 13,548 5,344 84,037 28,263 7,327 189 1,644 21
74 Other specialised business services Sole proprietorship 2021* 91,804 12,344 4,752 51,798 1,878 6,377 13 1,382 .
74 Other specialised business services Limited liability enterprises 2021* 4,848 443 101 24,227 23,456 198 150 2 .
74 Other specialised business services Partnership, etc. 2021* 5,829 761 491 8,012 2,929 752 25 260 .
749 Other specialised business services Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 27,503 3,384 1,817 30,899 16,736 1,777 112 553 16
749 Other specialised business services Sole proprietorship 2021* 22,846 2,955 1,578 13,301 835 1,488 . 469 .
749 Other specialised business services Limited liability enterprises 2021* 2,804 261 60 14,345 13,907 . 98 . .
749 Other specialised business services Partnership, etc. 2021* 1,853 168 179 3,253 1,994 . . . 11
7490 Other specialised business services Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
7490 Other specialised business services Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
7490 Other specialised business services Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
7490 Other specialised business services Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
N Renting and other business support Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 98,920 13,548 5,095 999,219 937,709 9,268 2,870 2,520 569
N Renting and other business support Sole proprietorship 2021* 69,373 10,977 4,169 62,837 14,508 5,640 220 1,649 105
N Renting and other business support Limited liability enterprises 2021* 18,906 1,481 317 899,321 897,341 2,525 2,435 397 393
N Renting and other business support Partnership, etc. 2021* 10,641 1,090 609 37,061 25,860 1,103 215 474 71
82 Other business services Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 22,728 4,508 1,667 . . 2,477 206 533 .
82 Other business services Sole proprietorship 2021* 18,852 4,066 1,515 11,407 . 2,140 . 469 .
82 Other business services Limited liability enterprises 2021* 2,407 238 41 42,138 41,903 172 157 . .
82 Other business services Partnership, etc. 2021* 1,469 204 111 . 4,838 166 . . .
829 Other business support activities Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 8,727 2,185 794 22,941 19,020 1,250 138 256 .
829 Other business support activities Sole proprietorship 2021* 6,922 1,935 718 3,744 354 1,036 . 218 0
829 Other business support activities Limited liability enterprises 2021* 1,172 136 21 14,944 14,853 112 102 . .
829 Other business support activities Partnership, etc. 2021* 633 114 55 4,253 3,813 102 . . .
8299 Other business support activities Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
8299 Other business support activities Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
8299 Other business support activities Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
8299 Other business support activities Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Business economy, B-N, incl 95 Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Business economy, B-N, incl 95 Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Business economy, B-N, incl 95 Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Business economy, B-N, incl 95 Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Source: CBS.
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This table includes information on business demography according to the European standard. Figures in this table are also submitted in this form to Eurostat. Information concerns the population of active enterprises, enterprise births and deaths, and the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year survivors after birth, broken down by size class based on number of employees and by the National Classification of Economic Activity 2008 (NCEA 2008, based on NACE Rev 2.0). Data also includes persons employed and employees in active enterprises, births and deaths, as well as persons employed for surviving births at the start and end of the survival period.

Data available from: 2010

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final for 2010 to 2020. The figures for 2021 are provisional.
Only the data on Dissolved companies for 2021 will be adjusted.

Changes as of February 9, 2024:
The provisional figures for 2021 have been added.

Two industry breakdowns have been added:
• B-S excluding O and excluding S94
• G-S excluding O and excluding S94
• K Financial institutions

When will new figures be released?
Figures on a new reporting year (T – 2) will be published in July of the current year T.

Description topics

Enterprises
Total
Enterprise:
The actual transactor in the production process characterised by independence in deciding on that process and in offering its products to third parties.

It follows from this definition, and in particular from the element of independence, that an enterprise can comprise more than one establishment, but also more than one legal unit. (Legal units include both natural and legal persons.) This is the case when the separate establishments or legal units do not operate independently. Conversely, it is possible to distinguish between different parts within a legal unit that operate independently in terms of production. These then constitute as many enterprises as defined. The latter is especially the case for larger groups with diverse activities.
When a unit thus defined extends over several countries, the Dutch part will be considered as a whole company for the sake of national statistics.

In official CBS terminology the enterprise as defined here is called the enterprise unit (BE), so that there is no confusion with the term enterprise used in common parlance, which is not very precise in this respect.

The statistical unit enterprise is an operationalisation of the kind-of-activity unit, as defined by Eurostat. This definition combines two requirements that may conflict: contributing to one activity versus corresponding to one or more operational units. The Netherlands gives priority to the second requirement when operationalising to the statistical enterprise unit.
Births
An enterprise birth is the creation of a new enterprise.

This means that economic criteria for an enterprise must be met: there must be information on employment or turnover of the enterprise. Furthermore, it is important that the enterprise is actually new. The continuation of one or more existing enterprises is therefore not an enterprise birth.

There is no enterprise birth in the case of
- enterprises that are created as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of a company;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of ownership;
- gradual change of activity;
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Deaths
An enterprise death is the termination of an existing enterprise.

This means that there is no question of a significant part of the activities being continued by another enterprise. An enterprise death only occurs when the enterprise (with the associated employment) no longer belongs to the enterprise population. The best-known example of this is bankruptcy.

There is no enterprise death in the case of:
- enterprises that disappear as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of an enterprise;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of owner;
- gradual change of activity
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Enterprise population
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Newly born enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Non-surviving enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.