16 October 2013

2013- n° 237

Increase in business start-ups in September 2013 Enterprise births - September 2013

Warning : From September 2013 data onwards, the seasonal and working-day adjustment model has been modified, for monthly business start-up data. Previously, only the time series for business set-ups excluding self-managed enterprises were seasonally adjusted. The self-managed enterprises time series were too short to be properly deseasonalized. From now on, the self-managed enterprises time series are seasonaly adjusted for each main sector throughout France. However, for the self-managed enterprises time series in the sectors of “Financial and insurance activities”, “Real estate” and “Trade, transport, accomModation and catering” , the raw data are similar to seasonally adjusted data, due to a low number of registrations and difficulty identifying a seasonal trend.

In September 2013, the number of business start-ups increased compared to August: 4.6% for business setting up (seasonally and working-day adjusted data) including self-managed enterprises, +0.9% for business start-ups excluding self-managed enterprises (seasonally and working-day adjusted data).

The amount of entries added up in the last quarter decreased compared to the same quarter one year before (-1.4%).

The sectors that most contributed to that decrease were construction, household services and business support activities.

During the last twelve months, the number of business start-ups decreased by 3.1% year-on-year.

For the first nine months of 2013, more than one out of two businesses set up were self-managed enterprises (206,862).