13 February 2015
2015- n° 32Decrease in business start-ups in January 2015 Enterprise births - January 2015
In January 2015, following three months of increase, the number of business start-ups including self-managed micro-entrepreneurs plunged by 7.8%, seasonally and working-day adjusted (sa-wda). However the number of business start-ups excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs went up by 1.2%.
Warning: Since December 19, 2014, new provisions defined by the Pinel law of 18 June 2014 apply to self-managed enterprises, now called micro-entrepreneurs instead of “auto-entrepreneurs”. This new denomination is used from December 2014 business start-ups data onward.
This status must be distinguished from both simplified tax scheme (sometimes called tax regime of micro-enterprise) and category of microenterprises defined under Article 51 of the law on the modernization of the economy (LME) and specified by Decree No. 2008-1354.
In January 2015, following three months of increase, the number of business start-ups including self-managed micro-entrepreneurs plunged by 7.8%, seasonally and working-day adjusted (sa-wda). However the number of business start-ups excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs went up by 1.2%.
-1.6% year-on-year (quarterly basis)
The amount of births added up in the last three months went down compared to the same months one year before (–1.6% for all enterprises, and –4.3% for self-managed micro-entrepreneurs).
The sectors that most contributed1 to that decrease were construction and retail.
+0.9% year-on-year (twelve months basis)
During the last twelve months, the number of business start-ups rose (+0.9% year-on-year), especially for companies (+3.7%). On the other hand, it slightly decreased for sole proprietorships (-0.2%).
More than half of business set-ups are self–managed micro-entrepreneurs
In January 2015, 51% of business set-ups over the last twelve months were micro–entrepreneurs.
tableautab0EN – Business set-ups distribution by type %
| Nov. 2014 | Dec. 2014 | Jan. 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Companies | 30.1 | 30.1 | 30.3 |
| Sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs | 18.4 | 18.4 | 18.7 |
| Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs | 51.5 | 51.5 | 51.0 |
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
tableautab1EN – Business set-ups by month (sa-wda *)
| Oct. 2014 | Nov. 2014 | Dec. 2014 | Jan. 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excl. self-managed micro-entrepreneurs | 22,086 | 22,442 | 22,737 | 23,008 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Incl., self-managed micro-entrepreneurs | 45,716 | 46,225 | 46,863 | 43,224 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.4 | -7.8 |
- * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
tableautab2EN – Business start-ups by type
| Moving total % change* | Moving total | Moving total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| over 3 months | over 12 months | in January 2015 | in January 2014 | |
| Total | -1.6 | 0.9 | 46,745 | 52,547 |
| Companies | 2.0 | 3.7 | 14,139 | 14,906 |
| Sole proprietorships | -3.1 | -0.2 | 32,606 | 37,641 |
| Of which self-managed micro-entrepreneurs | -4.3 | 0.8 | 21,612 | 26,934 |
- * Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
graphiqueGraph1EN – Business start-ups (sa-wda *)
- * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
(1) The contribution of a sector to the overall variation is the observed variation of this sector, weighted by the share of this sector in the total number of births.
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