Archive:Access to finance statistics
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Eurostat, in consultation with its users for business statistics, the OECD, EIF and the ECB, has organized a business survey to obtain information on the access to finance of medium-sized enterprises (10 to 250 employees). The results have been published on Eurostat's website and reveal extraordinary changes in financing success rates between the two reference years.
The survey was conducted with 25,000 respondent firms in 20 Member States and serves to shed light on the types and source of finance sought before and (arguably) after the crisis, on their success rates, the need for guarantees, on the choice of lending institutions, and on the future needs for finance, as well as the economic outlook in the view of businesses in Europe.
Main statistical findings
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Data sources and availability
Data on Access to finance survey were collected through interviewing a representative sample of enterprises by the National Statistical Institutes (NSI)in 20 EU Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom).
The statistical survey was carried out through a common questionnaire used by all participating countries. Many countries introduced additional questions and/or made some changes to the existing questions, without deviating from the substance of the issues.
The scope of the data collection shall be enterprises in the non-financial business economy that fits all of the following characteristics:
• Classified to NACE Rev 2 codes B to N, but not to code K (financial services); • Independent, that is not a subsidiary of another business, either in the same member state or foreign; • Has existed at least since 2005; • Had between 10 and 249 persons employed in 2005; • Active in 2008; • Has at least 10 persons employed at the reference period.
Context
Access to finance is crucial to business success and an important factor for economic growth in Europe following the economic crisis in 2007. The purpose of this survey is to examine where there may be constraints on the availability of finance, and how those may be changing; the need for finance (loans, equity and other) in the future, for example to promote growth, and the sources from which businesses would wish to obtain this finance.
Data are collected under Commission Regulation (EC) No 97/2009 of 2 February 2009. EP/Council Regulation (EC) 295/2008 made provision for a flexible module “for the conduct of a specific and limited ad hoc data collection of enterprise characteristics”.
Further Eurostat information
Publications
Press release.
Main tables
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Database
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Dedicated section
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- Access to finance
Methodology / Metadata
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Other information
Questionnaire;
Methodology