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)
Q Health and social work activities	Total	2023*	26,668	1,653	1,460	1,420	1,628	1,227	1,462,291	1,461,971	3,643	3,606	3,939	3,901	8,630	10,250	13,607	16,292	18,430	5,091	4,922	6,584	10,283	7,261
Q Health and social work activities	1 to 4 employees	2023*	12,050	1,355	1,203	1,133	1,181	1,006	26,078	25,800	2,097	2,062	2,006	1,970	4,216	5,206	6,013	6,322	6,727	2,131	2,008	2,917	3,052	2,512
Q Health and social work activities	5 to 9 employees	2023*	6,061	216	174	194	271	133	40,784	40,742	975	973	1,062	1,060	2,342	2,050	3,004	3,046	2,692	1,396	1,116	1,358	2,094	943
Q Health and social work activities	10 employees or more	2023*	8,557	82	83	93	176	88	1,395,429	1,395,429	571	571	871	871	2,072	2,994	4,590	6,925	9,011	1,563	1,798	2,308	5,137	3,806
88 Social work without accommodation	Total	2023*	6,848	506	447	420	418	364	320,523	320,523	1,094	1,094	1,030	1,030	2,779	3,746	5,622	5,389	4,820	1,636	1,543	2,157	2,160	1,582
88 Social work without accommodation	1 to 4 employees	2023*	2,768	427	352	322	326	287	5,536	5,536	622	622	468	468	1,381	1,599	2,172	2,293	2,351	658	555	785	734	654
88 Social work without accommodation	5 to 9 employees	2023*	1,195	49	59	69	48	45	8,014	8,014	211	211	227	227	567	775	1,289	733	1,161	327	379	481	339	312
88 Social work without accommodation	10 employees or more	2023*	2,885	30	36	29	44	32	306,973	306,973	261	261	335	335	831	1,372	2,161	2,363	1,307	651	610	891	1,086	616
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.