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)
29-30 Transport equipment Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 2,258 141 47 41,099 39,966 94 40 . .
29-30 Transport equipment Sole proprietorship 2021* 915 63 17 937 224 32 0 7 0
29-30 Transport equipment Limited liability enterprises 2021* 1,021 54 8 39,439 39,323 41 . . .
29-30 Transport equipment Partnership, etc. 2021* 322 24 22 723 419 21 . . .
30 Manufacture of other transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
30 Manufacture of other transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
30 Manufacture of other transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
30 Manufacture of other transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
309 Manufacture of transport n.e.c. Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
309 Manufacture of transport n.e.c. Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
309 Manufacture of transport n.e.c. Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
309 Manufacture of transport n.e.c. Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
E Water supply and waste management Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 1,998 136 67 30,468 29,713 72 29 19 0
E Water supply and waste management Sole proprietorship 2021* 929 75 47 671 73 37 0 . 0
E Water supply and waste management Limited liability enterprises 2021* 922 52 12 29,126 29,066 . 29 0 0
E Water supply and waste management Partnership, etc. 2021* 147 9 8 672 574 . 0 . 0
36 Water collection and distribution Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
36 Water collection and distribution Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
36 Water collection and distribution Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
36 Water collection and distribution Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
360 Water collection and distribution Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
360 Water collection and distribution Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
360 Water collection and distribution Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
360 Water collection and distribution Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
H Transportation and storage Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 59,170 8,552 3,155 429,468 388,277 5,916 1,743 1,716 188
H Transportation and storage Sole proprietorship 2021* 39,281 7,246 2,576 35,828 7,217 3,761 106 1,186 41
H Transportation and storage Limited liability enterprises 2021* 10,747 752 98 362,137 360,562 1,602 1,556 105 104
H Transportation and storage Partnership, etc. 2021* 9,142 554 481 31,503 20,498 553 80 425 43
49 Land transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 31,737 4,312 1,692 203,887 180,420 2,816 699 985 121
49 Land transport Sole proprietorship 2021* 21,852 3,657 1,394 20,687 3,772 1,909 56 688 25
49 Land transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* 5,067 377 57 170,014 169,525 624 602 . .
49 Land transport Partnership, etc. 2021* 4,818 278 241 13,186 7,123 282 41 . .
491 Passenger rail transport (no tram) Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
491 Passenger rail transport (no tram) Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
491 Passenger rail transport (no tram) Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
491 Passenger rail transport (no tram) Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
492 Freight rail transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
492 Freight rail transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
492 Freight rail transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
492 Freight rail transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
493 Passenger transport by road Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
493 Passenger transport by road Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
493 Passenger transport by road Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
493 Passenger transport by road Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
494 Freight transport by road Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
494 Freight transport by road Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
494 Freight transport by road Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
494 Freight transport by road Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
495 Transport via pipeline Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
495 Transport via pipeline Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
495 Transport via pipeline Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
495 Transport via pipeline Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
50 Water transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 5,086 265 176 20,017 15,072 160 . 119 .
50 Water transport Sole proprietorship 2021* 1,588 119 71 1,549 . . 6 . 0
50 Water transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* 1,362 68 2 . . . . 0 0
50 Water transport Partnership, etc. 2021* 2,136 78 103 . . . 17 . .
501 Sea passenger water transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
501 Sea passenger water transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
501 Sea passenger water transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
501 Sea passenger water transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
502 Sea freight water transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
502 Sea freight water transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
502 Sea freight water transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
502 Sea freight water transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
503 Inland passenger water transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
503 Inland passenger water transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
503 Inland passenger water transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
503 Inland passenger water transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
504 Inland freight water transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
504 Inland freight water transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
504 Inland freight water transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
504 Inland freight water transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
51 Air transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 396 22 13 23,210 23,080 10 . 5 .
51 Air transport Sole proprietorship 2021* 167 14 7 102 . . 0 . 0
51 Air transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* 142 7 2 . . . . 0 0
51 Air transport Partnership, etc. 2021* 87 1 4 . . . 0 . .
511 Passenger air transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
511 Passenger air transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
511 Passenger air transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
511 Passenger air transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
512 Freight air transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
512 Freight air transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
512 Freight air transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
512 Freight air transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
52 Warehousing, services for transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 11,472 1,471 463 112,099 106,372 1,469 857 233 50
52 Warehousing, services for transport Sole proprietorship 2021* 6,752 1,150 369 5,219 753 554 15 151 .
52 Warehousing, services for transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* 3,646 245 31 100,881 100,512 853 836 . .
52 Warehousing, services for transport Partnership, etc. 2021* 1,074 76 63 5,999 5,107 62 6 . .
522 Services activities for transport Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
522 Services activities for transport Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
522 Services activities for transport Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
522 Services activities for transport Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

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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.