Employer business demography, European standard, size class, SIC2008

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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

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' birth year.

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.