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)
ICT-sector	Total	2023*	16,511	1,342	1,137	999	1,159	765	344,633	344,633	2,518	2,518	2,491	2,491	5,486	7,088	11,018	11,180	13,771	3,103	2,581	4,422	3,924	2,776
ICT-sector	1 to 4 employees	2023*	8,715	1,219	1,055	891	1,015	656	16,212	16,212	1,882	1,882	1,631	1,631	3,298	4,213	4,633	5,489	8,317	1,731	1,544	1,700	1,903	1,378
ICT-sector	5 to 9 employees	2023*	2,728	82	56	69	93	61	18,333	18,333	352	352	393	393	899	734	1,571	1,622	1,799	523	339	454	599	387
ICT-sector	10 employees or more	2023*	5,068	41	26	39	51	48	310,087	310,087	284	284	467	467	1,289	2,140	4,813	4,070	3,655	849	698	2,268	1,423	1,010
465 Wholesale of ICT-equipment	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
465 Wholesale of ICT-equipment	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
465 Wholesale of ICT-equipment	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
465 Wholesale of ICT-equipment	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
80 Security and investigation	Total	2023*	897	103	61	57	45	36	33,578	33,578	162	162	248	248	484	430	394	482	513	251	193	180	275	165
80 Security and investigation	1 to 4 employees	2023*	445	88	50	50	35	29	827	827	.	.	171	171	.	.	286	179	369	.	.	109	84	.
80 Security and investigation	5 to 9 employees	2023*	145	12	7	5	4	3	972	972	24	24	.	.	104	89	.	.	.	77	.	.	.	.
80 Security and investigation	10 employees or more	2023*	307	3	4	2	6	4	31,779	31,779	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
801 Private security	Total	2023*	718	88	50	47	36	30	30,124	30,124	156	156	235	235	449	363	363	.	485	228	148	163	.	153
801 Private security	1 to 4 employees	2023*	354	73	42	40	27	23	643	643	.	.	158	158	.	171	255	131	341	.	57	92	69	.
801 Private security	5 to 9 employees	2023*	109	12	5	5	4	3	727	727	24	24	.	.	104	.	.	.	.	77	.	.	.	.
801 Private security	10 employees or more	2023*	255	3	3	2	5	4	28,754	28,754	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	113	.	.	.	.	79	.
8010 Private security	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
8010 Private security	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
8010 Private security	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
8010 Private security	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
802 Security systems service activities	Total	2023*	151	13	10	7	9	5	3,182	3,182	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
802 Security systems service activities	1 to 4 employees	2023*	74	13	8	7	8	5	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	48	.	.	.	.	14	.
802 Security systems service activities	5 to 9 employees	2023*	33	0	1	0	0	0	.	.	0	0	0	0	0	.	0	0	0	0	.	0	0	0
802 Security systems service activities	10 employees or more	2023*	44	0	1	0	1	0	2,799	2,799	0	0	0	0	0	.	0	.	0	0	.	0	.	0
8020 Security systems service activities	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
8020 Security systems service activities	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
8020 Security systems service activities	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
8020 Security systems service activities	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ICT services	Total	2023*	16,165	1,319	1,110	986	1,114	753	334,733	334,733	2,483	2,483	2,395	2,395	5,397	.	10,967	11,006	.	3,039	2,498	4,389	3,807	.
ICT services	1 to 4 employees	2023*	8,552	1,200	1,030	879	974	644	15,902	15,902	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ICT services	5 to 9 employees	2023*	2,667	80	56	69	91	61	17,929	17,929	.	.	.	.	.	734	1,571	.	1,799	.	339	454	.	387
ICT services	10 employees or more	2023*	4,946	39	24	38	49	48	300,901	300,901	284	284	.	.	.	.	.	.	3,655	.	.	.	.	1,010
ICT manufacturing	Total	2023*	346	23	27	13	45	12	9,900	9,900	35	35	96	96	88	.	51	174	.	64	83	33	118	.
ICT manufacturing	1 to 4 employees	2023*	163	19	25	12	41	12	310	310	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ICT manufacturing	5 to 9 employees	2023*	61	2	0	0	2	0	404	404	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	.	0	.	0	0	.	0
ICT manufacturing	10 employees or more	2023*	122	2	2	1	2	0	9,186	9,186	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	0
Source: CBS.

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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.