Warning: Only business start-ups data excluding self-managed enterprises (SME) are seasonally adjusted. In order to get the total number of enterprise creation, the raw number of SME is added. The SME time series is too short to be properly deseasonalized.
In February 2013, the number of business start-ups decreased compared to January: -2.7% for business setting up (seasonally and working-day adjusted data) including self-managed enterprises; start-ups excluding self-managed enterprises increased (+4.2%).
The amount of entries added up in the last quarter decreased compared to the same quarter one year before (-7%).
The sectors that most contributed to that decrease were business support activities, construction and wholesale and retail trade.
During the last twelve months, the number of business start-ups decreased slightly by 1.7% year-on-year.
For the first two months of 2013, more than one out of two businesses set up were self-managed enterprises (50,222).
Business start-ups

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
Source: INSEE (Sirene)
| Raw data | |||
| Source: INSEE (Sirene) | |||
| Nov. 2012 | Dec. 2012 | Jan. 2013 | Feb. 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 753 | 17 581 | 26 191 | 24 031 |
| * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data | ||||
| Source: INSEE (Sirene) | ||||
| Nov. 2012 | Dec. 2012 | Jan. 2013 | Feb. 2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excl. self-managed enterprises (sa-wda *) | 20 084 | 20 509 | 21 455 | 22 352 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | -0.2 | 2.1 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| Incl., in raw data, self-managed enterprises | 44 837 | 38 090 | 47 646 | 46 383 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | -12.0 | -15.0 | 25.1 | -2.7 |
| Raw data | ||||
| * Total of business start-ups 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 2013 | January- February 2012 | |
| Total | -7.0 | -1.7 | 98 710 | 101 791 |
| Companies | -7.7 | -5.3 | 28 911 | 29 929 |
| Individual enterprises | -6.7 | -0.2 | 69 799 | 71 862 |
| Of which self-managed | -11.4 | 1.4 | 50 222 | 55 185 |
n° 61 - March 14, 2013
Enterprises births - February 2013
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