12 April 2013
2013- n° 88Increase in business start-ups in March 2013 Enterprise births - March 2013
In March 2013, the number of business start-ups increased compared to February: +3.1% for business setting up (seasonally and working-day adjusted data) including self-managed enterprises; start-ups excluding self-managed enterprises decreased slightly (-0.7%).
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 March 2013, the number of business start-ups increased compared to February: +3.1% for business setting up (seasonally and working-day adjusted data) including self-managed enterprises; start-ups excluding self-managed enterprises decreased slightly (-0.7%).
-4.9% year-on-year (quarterly basis)
The amount of entries added up in the last quarter decreased compared to the same quarter one year before (-4.9%).
The sectors that most contributed to that decrease were construction and business support activities.
-2.5% year-on-year (twelve months basis)
During the last twelve months, the number of business start-ups decreased by 2.5% year-on-year.
75,484 self-managed enterprises since the beginning of 2013
For the first three months of 2013, more than one out of two businesses set up were self-managed enterprises (75,484).
tableautab0 – Self-managed business set-ups
| Dec. 2012 | Jan. 2013 | Feb. 2013 | March 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 581 | 26 088 | 23 912 | 25 484 |
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
tableautab1EN – Business set-ups by month
| Dec. 2012 | Jan. 2013 | Feb. 2013 | March 2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excl. self-managed enterprises (sa-wda *) | 20 515 | 21 399 | 22 307 | 22 155 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | 2.1 | 4.3 | 4.2 | -0.7 |
| Incl., in raw data, self-managed enterprises | 38 096 | 47 487 | 46 219 | 47 639 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | -15.0 | 24.6 | -2.7 | 3.1 |
- * 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 | January- March 2013 | January- March 2012 | |
| Total | -4.9 | -2.5 | 148 348 | 155 948 |
| Companies | -4.1 | -5.1 | 43 343 | 45 178 |
| Individual enterprises | -5.2 | -1.3 | 105 005 | 110 770 |
| Of which self-managed | -11.6 | -0.7 | 75 484 | 85 364 |
- * Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
- // = meaningless
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
graphiqueGraph1EN – Business start-ups
- * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
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Time series : Business demography
