1. Statistical Portrait of Entrepreneurs - which indicators to include?
Peter Bøegh Nielsen
Statistics Denmark
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2. Danish statistics on business demography
Register-based
Full coverage
Integration of economic and social statistics
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3. Enterprise or entrepreneur?
Activity
Size-class
Legal form
(Unique identification no.)
Age
Gender
Education
Entrepreneurs
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4. Types of statistics produced
Birth of Enterprises
New Entrepreneurs and their
characteristics
Survival of new enterprises
High growth Entrepreneurs
Death of enterprises
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5. Entrepreneur indicators
Age
Gender
Level of education
Previous branch experience
Nationality
Financial situation prior to enterprise start-up
Total work experience
Entrepreneur’s relation to labour market the year
before enterprise start-up
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6. Are new entrepreneurs better educated than the work force in general?
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7. Does previous branch experience have an impact on survival?
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8. Profiles of new entrepreneurs
Manu factu- ring
Con- structi-on
Whole-sale
Retail Trade
Hotels and restau-rants
Trans-port.
Know-ledge services
Opera-tional services
Other services
Men
0,98
1,36
1,16
0,72
0,88
1,27
1,07
0,77
0,78
Immigrants
0,45
0,21
1,02
1,32
4,13
1,00
0,48
1,43
1,08
Previous unemployed
1,13
0,84
1,05
0,93
2,29
1,10
0,71
1,26
Gross income > kr.
0,99
1,09
0,83
0,62
1,04
1,12
0,82
0,89
Fortune> kr.
1,35
1,24
0,65
0,68
1,21
0,87
Vocational education
1,15
1,54
1,33
0,94
0,61
0,80
University education
0,42
0,22
1,87
0,96
0,85
Branch experience
0,64
2,12
0,58
1,06
0,76
0,90
1,11
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9. Which type of employees do new enterprises attract?
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10. Can we identify gazelles?
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11. Profile of gazelles
Employers
Life-style
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12. The Danish focus New entrepreneurs: Existing entrepreneurs:
Gazelles
Innovative start-ups
Spin-offs
Export-oriented entrepreneurs
Special segments (e.g. female entrepreneurs, ethnic entrepreneurs
Existing entrepreneurs:
High growth entrepreneurs
Restarters
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