Entrepreneurship at a Glance -

Preface......Page 5
Reader’s Guide......Page 9
The EIP Framework......Page 12
Table of Contents......Page 7
1. Recent developments......Page 13
Figure 0.1. New enterprises, selected countries......Page 14
2. Definitions and methodology......Page 15
3. Sources of data on new creations and bankruptcies......Page 16
Table 0.1. National sources and definitions of enterprise creations (cont.)......Page 17
Table 0.2. National sources and definitions of bankruptcies (cont.)......Page 18
Part I. 
Measuring Entrepreneurship......Page 21
1. Measuring Women Entrepreneurship......Page 23
1.1. Defining the entrepreneur: Conceptual and measurement issues......Page 24
Gender indicators of entrepreneurship from labour force surveys and population censuses......Page 27
Figure 1.1. Trends in employers and own account workers......Page 28
Gender indicators of entrepreneurship from firm-level data sources......Page 29
Figure 1.4. Norway: Enterprises by ownership type and gender of owner, 2010......Page 31
Figure 1.6. France: Survival rates of enterprises created in 2006 by gender of the founder......Page 33
Figure 1.7. United States: Changes in number and employment of enterprises by gender of owner, 2002-07......Page 34
Table 1.1. Data sources on women’s entrepreneurship and their use......Page 35
References......Page 36
2. Measuring Entrepreneurial Finance: A European Survey of SMEs......Page 39
2.1. Finance needs and sources......Page 41
Three sets of growth characteristics......Page 42
Table 2.2. Response rate and sample size......Page 43
Findings......Page 44
Figure 2.2. Firms seeking loan finance, 2010......Page 45
Figure 2.4. Firms seeking equity finance, 2010......Page 46
Figure 2.6. Rejection rate of loan requests by source, EU 20......Page 47
Figure 2.7. Success rate in obtaining equity finance by source, EU 20......Page 48
2.2. Towards internationally harmonised indicators......Page 49
References......Page 50
Part II. 
Entrepreneurship Indicators......Page 53
3. Structural Indicators on the Enterprise Population......Page 55
For further reading......Page 56
Figure 3.2 Enterprises with 10 persons engaged or more, 2008 or latest available year......Page 57
For further reading......Page 58
Table 3.1 Number of persons employed, 2008 or latest available year......Page 59
For further reading......Page 60
Table 3.2 Value added by enterprise size class, 2008 or latest available year......Page 61
For further reading......Page 62
Figure 3.6 Export propensity by enterprise size class, 2008......Page 63
4. Enterprise Birth, Death and Survival......Page 65
For further reading......Page 66
Figure 4.3 Employer enterprise birth rate by sector, 2008......Page 67
Figure 4.5 Employer enterprise birth rate by size class, services, 2008......Page 68
Figure 4.6 Employer enterprise birth rate in various industries, 2008......Page 69
For further reading......Page 70
Figure 4.9 Employer enterprise death rates by sector, 2007 (2008 in insert)......Page 71
Figure 4.11 Employer enterprise death rate in services by size class, 2007 (2008 in insert)......Page 72
Figure 4.12 Employer enterprise death rate in various industries, 2007 (2008 in insert)......Page 73
For further reading......Page 74
Figure 4.14 Employer enterprise churn rate, services......Page 75
For further reading......Page 76
Figure 4.15 Enterprise survival rates, 2005 cohort......Page 77
Figure 4.16 Share of young enterprises, manufacturing, 2008......Page 78
Figure 4.17 Share of young enterprises, services, 2008......Page 79
5. Employment Creation and Destruction......Page 81
For further reading......Page 82
Figure 5.4 Employment destruction by employer enterprise deaths, total economy......Page 83
For further reading......Page 84
Figure 5.6 Employment in year of birth and in the 2nd survival year, total economy, 2008......Page 85
6. Enterprise Growth......Page 87
7. Women Entrepreneurship......Page 93
For further reading......Page 94
Figure 7.2 Number of women and men employers in EU-27 and the United States......Page 95
For further reading......Page 96
Figure 7.5 Distribution of women and men-owned sole-proprietor enterprises by industry, 2009 or latest available year......Page 97
For further reading......Page 98
Figure 7.7 Distribution of employment in sole-proprietor enterprises by gender of the owner and size, 2009 or latest available year......Page 99
For further reading......Page 100
Figure 7.9 Employer death rate of women and men-owned sole-proprietor enterprises, 2009 or latest available year......Page 101
For further reading......Page 102
Figure 7.11 Three-year employment growth rate of women and men-owned enterprises, 2009 or latest available year......Page 103
For further reading......Page 104
Figure 7.13 Board gender diversity index, 2009......Page 105
8. Determinants of Entrepreneurship: Selected Indicators......Page 107
For further readings......Page 108
Figure 8.3 Number of days to start a business, 2011......Page 109
For further readings......Page 110
Figure 8.6 Success rate in obtaining leasing, 2010......Page 111
For further readings......Page 112
Figure 8.8 Attitudes towards entrepreneurship, 2011 or latest available year......Page 113
Table A.1 Indicators of entrepreneurial determinants and data sources......Page 115
Annex B. Eurostat’s 2010 Survey Questionnaire on Access to Finance......Page 120
Annex C. 
Grossing up Techniques......Page 136