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New Enterprise Information System / SINE

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Definition

The information system on new enterprises (SINE) serves to analyse the start-up and development conditions of enterprises and the problems they encounter over the first five years of their existence (financial difficulties, mechanisms leading to the hiring of staff, opening-up of markets, etc.).

Initialised in 1994, the SINE survey scheme consists in selecting a new set of recently-created enterprises every four years. Each set selected is surveyed three times.

The first survey takes place a few months after start-up, and collects information on the profile of the entrepreneur, the start-up conditions, and the characteristics of the newly-formed company.

The other two surveys, 3 years and 5 years after start-up, serve to monitor the company's development and pinpoint the conditions for survival/success after 3 years (then 5 years), the difficulties encountered, growth in business, employment, etc.