Business demography in Europe: employers and job creation - Issue number 100/2008 - Products Statistics in Focus

In addition to the existing harmonised data collection on business demography, which covers all enterprises regardless of their size, this publication presents first results on enterprises with at least one employee (employer enterprises). Here, not only are those enterprises considered as "employer births" that have employees in their year of birth, but also those which existed before as non-employers and were first recorded as employers in the reference year. This methodological difference is significant and makes data more comparable at the international level, particularly within the framework of the joint OECD-Eurostat "Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme", which also includes the United States.