14 January 2015
2015- n° 5Further increase in business start-ups in December 2014 Enterprise births - December 2014
In December 2014, the number of business start-ups including self-managed micro-enterprises seasonally and working-day adjusted (sa-wda) increased for the third consecutive month (+1.5% compared to November).
Warning: Since December 19, 2014, new provisions defined by the Pinel law of 18 June 2014 apply to self-managed enterprises, now called micro-enterprises instead of “auto-entreprises”. This new denomination is used from December 2014 business start-ups data onward.
This regime of micro-enterprise must be distinguished from the 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 December 2014, the number of business start-ups including self-managed micro-enterprises seasonally and working-day adjusted (sa-wda) increased for the third consecutive month (+1.5% compared to November).
+2.3% year-on-year (quarterly basis)
The amount of births added up in the 2014 last quarter went up compared to the same quarter one year before (+2.3%) for all entreprises. This increase was especially driven by companies (+4.1%).
The sector that most contributed1 to that growth was transportation.
+2.3% in 2014
During the last twelve months, the number of business start-ups rose compared to 2013 (+2.3% year-on-year), especially for companies (+4.3%) and self-managed micro-entreprises. On the other hand, it lowered for other sole proprietorship forms (-2.7%).
More than half of business set-ups are self–managed micro-enterprises
In December 2014, 51.5% of business set-ups over the last twelve months were self-managed micro–enterprises.
tableautab0EN – Business set-ups distribution by type %
| Oct. 2014 | Nov. 2014 | Dec. 2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Companies | 30.0 | 30.1 | 30.1 |
| Sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-enterprises | 18.6 | 18.4 | 18.4 |
| Self-managed micro-entreprises | 51.4 | 51.5 | 51.5 |
- Source: INSEE (Sirene)
tableautab1EN – Business set-ups by month (sa-wda *)
| Sept. 2014 | Oct. 2014 | Nov. 2014 | Dec. 2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excl. self-managed micro-enterprises | 21,641 | 22,108 | 22,417 | 22,742 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | -3.8 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| Incl., self-managed micro-enterprises | 45,704 | 45,907 | 46,315 | 46,995 |
| Variation [m-o-m] % | -1.6 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
- * 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 | over the year 2014 | over the year 2013 | |
| Total | 2.3 | 2.3 | 550,794 | 538,185 |
| Companies | 4.1 | 4.3 | 165,764 | 158,875 |
| Sole proprietorships | 1.6 | 1.5 | 385,030 | 379,310 |
| Of which self-managed micro-enterprises | 4.3 | 3.1 | 283,454 | 274,942 |
- * 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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Time series : Business demography
