Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

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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)
B Mining and quarrying	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	588	64	24	7,741	7,505	33	5	7	.
B Mining and quarrying	Sole proprietorship	2021*	290	51	15	191	.	26	0	.	0
B Mining and quarrying	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	239	10	5	7,162	7,133	.	.	0	0
B Mining and quarrying	Partnership, etc.	2021*	59	3	4	388	.	.	.	.	.
06 Extraction of crude petroleum and gas	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
06 Extraction of crude petroleum and gas	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
06 Extraction of crude petroleum and gas	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
06 Extraction of crude petroleum and gas	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
08 Mining and quarrying (no oil and gas)	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
08 Mining and quarrying (no oil and gas)	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
08 Mining and quarrying (no oil and gas)	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
08 Mining and quarrying (no oil and gas)	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
081 Mining of stone, sand and clay	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
081 Mining of stone, sand and clay	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
081 Mining of stone, sand and clay	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
081 Mining of stone, sand and clay	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
089 Other mining and quarrying	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
089 Other mining and quarrying	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
089 Other mining and quarrying	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
089 Other mining and quarrying	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
091 Services for mining of oil and gas	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
091 Services for mining of oil and gas	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
091 Services for mining of oil and gas	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
091 Services for mining of oil and gas	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	8,460	1,344	380	142,687	137,374	1,005	278	242	46
10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages	Sole proprietorship	2021*	4,016	913	235	6,143	3,187	515	34	128	.
10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	2,352	188	23	118,892	118,680	174	161	.	.
10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages	Partnership, etc.	2021*	2,092	243	122	17,652	15,506	316	83	.	24
103 Processing of vegetables and fruit	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
103 Processing of vegetables and fruit	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
103 Processing of vegetables and fruit	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
103 Processing of vegetables and fruit	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
104 Manufacture of edible oils and fats	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
104 Manufacture of edible oils and fats	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
104 Manufacture of edible oils and fats	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
104 Manufacture of edible oils and fats	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
143 Knitting and crocheting apparel	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
143 Knitting and crocheting apparel	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
143 Knitting and crocheting apparel	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
143 Knitting and crocheting apparel	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
15 Manufacture of leather and footwear	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	737	77	28	2,038	1,678	.	.	.	0
15 Manufacture of leather and footwear	Sole proprietorship	2021*	543	64	24	326	.	.	0	6	0
15 Manufacture of leather and footwear	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	117	8	0	.	.	3	.	0	0
15 Manufacture of leather and footwear	Partnership, etc.	2021*	77	5	4	.	.	.	0	.	0
161 Sawmilling and planing of wood	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
161 Sawmilling and planing of wood	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
161 Sawmilling and planing of wood	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
161 Sawmilling and planing of wood	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	3,786	202	124	34,987	32,754	134	30	97	.
17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing	Sole proprietorship	2021*	1,866	139	83	1,648	284	71	0	.	0
17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	1,248	28	10	31,597	31,472	32	30	.	.
17-18 Manufacture of paper and printing	Partnership, etc.	2021*	672	35	31	1,742	998	31	0	39	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
181 Printing and services for printing	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
181 Printing and services for printing	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
181 Printing and services for printing	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
181 Printing and services for printing	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
19 Manufacture of coke and petroleum	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	47	3	1	5,350	5,346	.	.	0	0
19 Manufacture of coke and petroleum	Sole proprietorship	2021*	5	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0
19 Manufacture of coke and petroleum	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	33	3	0	5,335	5,335	.	.	0	0
19 Manufacture of coke and petroleum	Partnership, etc.	2021*	9	0	0	12	11	0	0	0	0
20-21 Chemistry and pharmaceuticals	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
20-21 Chemistry and pharmaceuticals	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
20-21 Chemistry and pharmaceuticals	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
20-21 Chemistry and pharmaceuticals	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
203 Manufacture of paints and ink	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
203 Manufacture of paints and ink	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
203 Manufacture of paints and ink	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
203 Manufacture of paints and ink	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
204 Manufacture detergents and cosmetics	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
204 Manufacture detergents and cosmetics	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
204 Manufacture detergents and cosmetics	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
204 Manufacture detergents and cosmetics	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	14,744	1,175	403	116,952	107,469	746	173	254	76
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Sole proprietorship	2021*	9,220	1,012	324	9,071	1,290	520	.	142	.
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	4,307	114	23	104,161	103,706	162	149	.	.
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Partnership, etc.	2021*	1,217	49	56	3,720	2,473	65	.	.	.
241 Manufacture of iron and steel	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
241 Manufacture of iron and steel	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
241 Manufacture of iron and steel	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
241 Manufacture of iron and steel	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
242 Manufacture tubes and pipes of steel	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
242 Manufacture tubes and pipes of steel	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
242 Manufacture tubes and pipes of steel	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
242 Manufacture tubes and pipes of steel	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
26-27 Elektrical and electron. Industry	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
26-27 Elektrical and electron. Industry	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
26-27 Elektrical and electron. Industry	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
26-27 Elektrical and electron. Industry	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
273 Manufacture of wiring and -devices	Total legal forms all nationalities	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
273 Manufacture of wiring and -devices	Sole proprietorship	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
273 Manufacture of wiring and -devices	Limited liability enterprises	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
273 Manufacture of wiring and -devices	Partnership, etc.	2021*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Source: CBS.

Explanation of symbols

Dataset is not available.

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.