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Structural and Demographic Business Statistics OECD Online Database
Previously titled: Structural Statistics for Industry and Services
This data set comprises three databases with data from 1995 onwards:
- Structural Statistics for Industry and Services (SSIS);
- Business Statistics by Size Class (BSC);
- Business Demography Indicators (BD).
The SSIS database provides information on the following economic variables broken down by 4-digit International Standard of Industrial Classification Revision 3 (ISIC Rev. 3).
- Turnover or gross premiums written
- Production at producers’ prices
- Value added at basic prices
- Value added at factor costs
- Gross operating surplus
- Total purchases of goods and services
- Change in stocks of goods and services
- Purchases of energy products
- Gross investment in tangible goods
- Gross investment in land
- Gross investment in existing buildings and structures
- Gross investment in machinery and equipment
- Sales of tangible investment goods
- Net investment in tangible goods
- Employment, number of persons engaged
- Employment, number of employees
- Employment, number of females employees
- Employment, number of employees in full time equivalent units
- Hours worked by employees
- Compensation of labour, all persons engaged
- Compensation of labour, employees
- Wages and salaries, all persons engaged
- Wages and salaries, employees
- Other employers’ social contributions, employees
- Number of enterprises
- Number of establishments
The data for the SSIS database have four dimensions: Country, Year, Industry and Variable. An additional dimension Total is shown, which contains one-field only, namely the data and must be selected.
The BSC database provides the same industry level of information as the SSIS database but this is additionally broken down by size classes of businesses. In theory the two datasets are consistent and complementary. In practice however the datasets are considered separately because: the time series for SSIS data are typically longer; the coverage of variables in the SSIS database is more comprehensive than the BSC database; and, for some countries, the two datasets are not entirely consistent, reflecting partly different information sources and allocation methods and partly the different times when the datasets were compiled.
The data for the BSC database have five dimensions: Country, Year, Industry, Size Class and Variable.
The third dataset within the SDBS database contains information of business birth, death and survival rates for many OECD countries and is referred to as the Business Demography (BD)database. This dataset is at its early stages of development and has not been compiled using the conventional system of
questionnaires, such as those used in collecting SSIS and BSC information, and, so, considerable incomparability problems currently exist in this dataset. The dataset has however been included in the SDBS dataset at this early stage a) because there is considerable policy interest in this type of information and b) because it signals the intention of the OECD Statistics Directorate to collect
information in this important policy area using more conventional methods with harmonised definitions for variables.
Data for four variables are currently available in the BD database – business births (often referred to as business entries); business deaths (often referred to as business exits), 2-year business survival rates and 5-year business survival rates.
The data for the BD database have four dimensions: Country, Year, Industry and Variable.
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