Warning: Only enterprise births data excluding self-managed enterprises (SME) are seasonally adjusted. In February 2012, the seasonal adjustment model has been reviewed. In order to get the total of enterprise births, the raw number of SME is added. The SME time series is too short to be properly deseasonalized.
In February 2012, the number of enterprise births decreased compared to January: -1.2% for enterprise births excluding self-managed enterprises (seasonally and working-day adjusted data); -3.3% when the number of self-managed enterprises (raw data) is added.
The amount of entries, added up the last three months, increased by 4.3% compared to the same quarter one year before.
The sectors that most contributed to that increase were education, human health and social work activities and construction.
During the last twelve months, the number of births decreased by 7.8% year-on-year.
For the first two months of 2012, one out of every two births enterprises were self-managed enterprises (55,554).
Enterprise births

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
Source: INSEE (Sirene)
| Raw data | |||
| Source: INSEE (Sirene) | |||
| Nov. 2011 | Dec. 2011 | Jan. 2012 | Feb. 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 544 | 21 363 | 28 472 | 27 082 |
| * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data | ||||
| Source: INSEE (Sirene) | ||||
| Nov. 2011 | Dec. 2011 | Jan. 2012 | Feb. 2012 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excl. self-managed enterprises (sa-wda *) | 22 747 | 21 820 | 20 684 | 20 436 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | 11.7 | -4.1 | -5.2 | -1.2 |
| Incl., in raw data, self-managed enterprises | 49 291 | 43 183 | 49 156 | 47 518 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | 7.2 | -12.4 | 13.8 | -3.3 |
| Raw data | ||||
| * Total of enterprises births during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier | ||||
| // = meaningless | ||||
| Source: INSEE (Sirene) | ||||
| Moving total % change* | Moving total | Moving total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| over 3 months | over 12 months | January- February 2012 | January- February 2011 | |
| Total | 4.3 | -7.8 | 102 454 | 95 044 |
| Companies | 2.2 | 1.9 | 30 089 | 29 159 |
| Individual enterprises | 5.3 | -11.4 | 72 365 | 65 885 |
| Of which self-managed | 8.5 | -12.5 | 55 554 | 48 635 |
n° 68 - March 14, 2012
Enterprises births - February 2012
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