Presented at the July 2012 Meeting of the OECD-MENA Initiative's Working Group on SME Policy, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital Development http://www.oecd.org/mena/investment

1. Business Statistics and
Entrepreneurship Indicators
Mariarosa Lunati
OECD Statistics Directorate
MENA-OECD Working Group on SME Policy,
Entrepreneurship and Human Capital Development
Rome, 17 July 2012

2. Reliable, comparable and timely business data
1. Official statistics from NSOs and
statistical agencies
2. Internationally harmonised definitions
3. EIP: Joint OECD-Eurostat programme
launched in 2007 (Manual on Business
Demography Statistics)
4. Annual data collection
5. SDBS database
6. Publication of Entrepreneurship at a
Glance
7. Timely data: various statistical sources
8. Development of new indicators and
methodologies
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3. Enterprises by size class
Source: OECD Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2012.
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4. Employment by enterprise size class
Source: OECD Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2012.
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5. Value added by enterprise size class
Source: OECD Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2012.
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6. Propensity to exports by enterprise size class
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Source: OECD Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2012.

7. Women entrepreneurship
• Contribution to the OECD Gender Equality Initiative
• Definitions and methodology
– LSF data on self-employment: employer and own-account
workers
– Business registers and survey data: sole-proprietor women
and male enterprises
o Gender disaggregated employer business demography
• Pilot collection in 2011
• One-stop portal on gender data by end 2012
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8. Women and men employers, 2010
percentage of employed women / men
Women employers
Men employers
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10
8
6
4
2
0
Source: EAG 2012
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9. Performance of women and male-owned
enterprises
Three-year employment growth rate,
2009 or latest available
Three-year survival rate,
2009 or latest available
1.6
0.8
0.7
1.4
Women owned
Men owned
0.6
1.2
0.5
1.0
0.4
0.8
0.3
0.6
0.2
0.4
0.1
0.2
0
New
Zealand
Italy
Finland
Slovakia
Spain
Slovenia
Poland
Austria
France Switzerland
0.0
Source: EAG 2012
Spain
Netherlands
Slovak
Republic
Finland
Poland
Switzerland
Italy
New
Zealand
France
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10. Women on company boards
Source: OECD Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2012
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11. New enterprise creations
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12. Contact:
mariarosa.lunati@oecd.org
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