Employer business demography, European standard, size class, SIC2008

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Employer business demography, European standard, size class, SIC2008
SIC 2008	Persons employed	Periods	Employer enterprises Total (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 1 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 2 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 3 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 4 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 5 year survival (number)	Employer enterprise population Persons employed (number)	Employer enterprise population Employees (number)	Newly born employer enterprises Persons employed (number)	Newly born employer enterprises Employees (number)	Non-surviving employer enterprises Persons employed (number)	Non-surviving employer enterprises Employees (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 1 year (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 2 years (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 3 years (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 4 years (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 5 years (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 1 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 2 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 3 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 4 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 5 year (number)
323 Manufacture of sports goods	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
323 Manufacture of sports goods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
323 Manufacture of sports goods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
323 Manufacture of sports goods	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
464 Wholesale of consumergoods	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
464 Wholesale of consumergoods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
464 Wholesale of consumergoods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
464 Wholesale of consumergoods	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
476 Shops selling recreation goods	Total	2023*	2,936	121	151	128	113	90	28,071	28,071	285	285	400	400	407	988	687	609	444	331	602	440	352	288
476 Shops selling recreation goods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	1,784	112	128	117	103	85	3,944	3,944	.	167	271	271	260	355	360	369	371	260	290	290	246	.
476 Shops selling recreation goods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	718	7	16	8	8	3	4,581	4,581	38	.	.	.	.	152	.	.	.	.	98	.	.	.
476 Shops selling recreation goods	10 employees or more	2023*	434	2	7	3	2	2	19,547	19,547	.	.	.	.	.	481	.	.	.	.	214	.	.	.
477 Shops selling other goods	Total	2023*	11,459	497	459	395	414	380	211,772	206,135	1,210	843	2,645	2,010	2,039	1,792	2,474	3,367	3,090	1,469	1,061	1,412	1,862	1,507
477 Shops selling other goods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	6,966	461	440	351	358	336	19,922	14,843	1,049	683	1,777	1,154	1,308	1,538	1,300	1,553	1,622	953	913	806	897	844
477 Shops selling other goods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	2,264	25	17	25	33	29	15,271	14,717	.	.	329	318	236	.	210	321	341	157	.	169	224	215
477 Shops selling other goods	10 employees or more	2023*	2,229	11	2	19	23	15	176,580	176,575	.	.	538	538	495	.	964	1,493	1,127	359	.	437	742	447
77 Renting and leasing of tangible goods	Total	2023*	2,175	188	116	94	135	83	39,200	39,200	271	271	220	220	703	577	824	1,305	694	441	260	452	944	275
77 Renting and leasing of tangible goods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	1,214	175	104	80	112	72	2,343	2,343	211	211	165	165	439	346	323	502	310	232	144	161	246	164
77 Renting and leasing of tangible goods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	422	6	7	7	9	6	2,754	2,754	60	60	.	.	.	.	191	67	.	.	46	.	68	33
77 Renting and leasing of tangible goods	10 employees or more	2023*	539	7	5	7	14	5	34,103	34,103	0	0	.	.	.	.	311	735	.	.	70	.	630	78
772 Renting of consumergoods	Total	2023*	760	72	39	33	56	22	9,844	9,844	103	103	101	101	214	217	301	394	132	122	92	110	283	63
772 Renting of consumergoods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	432	69	34	27	42	21	846	846	.	.	.	.	.	.	105	213	.	.	.	54	.	.
772 Renting of consumergoods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	177	2	3	4	6	0	1,167	1,167	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	0
772 Renting of consumergoods	10 employees or more	2023*	151	1	2	2	8	1	7,831	7,831	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	126	.
7721 Renting of recreational goods	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7721 Renting of recreational goods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7721 Renting of recreational goods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7721 Renting of recreational goods	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7729 Renting of other consumergoods	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7729 Renting of other consumergoods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7729 Renting of other consumergoods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7729 Renting of other consumergoods	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
773 Renting of machinery and other goods	Total	2023*	835	67	40	30	45	29	17,152	17,152	99	99	70	70	270	168	321	716	328	156	97	245	553	92
773 Renting of machinery and other goods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	450	62	36	24	42	25	859	859	73	73	.	.	149	108	.	.	84	83	47	.	.	55
773 Renting of machinery and other goods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	159	3	2	3	0	2	1,042	1,042	25	25	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	0	.
773 Renting of machinery and other goods	10 employees or more	2023*	226	2	2	3	3	2	15,251	15,251	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7739 Renting of other goods	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7739 Renting of other goods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7739 Renting of other goods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7739 Renting of other goods	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
95 Repair computers and consumergoods	Total	2023*	1,055	92	64	44	46	42	4,973	4,973	151	151	203	203	143	115	139	130	147	111	77	92	100	139
95 Repair computers and consumergoods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	852	91	64	43	45	41	1,449	1,449	.	.	166	166	.	115	.	.	.	.	77	.	.	.
95 Repair computers and consumergoods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	109	1	0	1	0	0	690	690	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	0	0	.	0	.	0	0
95 Repair computers and consumergoods	10 employees or more	2023*	94	0	0	0	1	1	2,834	2,834	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	.	.	0	0	0	.	.
952 Repair of other consumergoods	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
952 Repair of other consumergoods	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
952 Repair of other consumergoods	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
952 Repair of other consumergoods	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Source: CBS.

Explanation of symbols

Table explanation

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 employers, employer births and deaths, broken down by legal form 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 these enterprises.

Data available from: 2010

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final for 2010 through 2022. The figures for 2023 are provisional. Only the data on Dissolved companies for 2023 will be adjusted.

Changes as of September 4, 2025:
The provisional figures for 2023 have been added, and the figures for 2022 have been adjusted and finalized.

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

Employer enterprises

Total: Employer:
Enterprises with employees. An enterprise is the actual transactor in the production process characterised by independence of decisions regarding that process and by offering its products to third parties. An enterprise is defined as an employer when in one year at least 0.5 FTE of labour force are on the payroll, excluding the director.

It follows from this definition and in particular from the independence element 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 individual 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.
activities. When a unit thus defined extends over several countries, the Dutch part is regarded 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 unit enterprise.

Newly born employer enterprise survivals

1 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place in the year preceding the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

2 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place two years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

3 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place three years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

4 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place four years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

5 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place five years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

Employer 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 employer 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 employer 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.

Persons employed

in employer enterprises surviving

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.
This concerns persons employed in surviving employer enterprises in the current reporting year.

1 year: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born in the year preceding the reporting year.

2 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born two years prior to the reporting year.

3 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born three years prior to the reporting year.

4 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born four years prior to the reporting year.

5 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born five years prior to the reporting year.

in birth year of employer enterprise

surviving 1 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born in the year preceding the reporting year.

surviving 2 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born two years prior to the reporting year.

surviving 3 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born three years prior to the reporting year.

surviving 4 year: Tthe number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born four years prior to the reporting year.

surviving 5 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born five years prior to the reporting year.