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The Future of Business Survey

The Future of Business Survey, a partnership between Facebook, OECD, and The World Bank, is a new source of information on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Statistical Insights: Small, Medium and Vulnerable

SMEs are particularly at risk of failure from prolonged coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown measures, and account for 75% of all jobs in directly affected sectors.

Indicators of entrepreneurial determinants

This page presents a comprehensive list of indicators of entrepreneurial determinants. The list draws from the reports "Quality Assessment of Entrepreneurship Indicators" prepared by FORA (Denmark). Indicators are classified into the six categories of determinants set by the OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP)

The OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP): background information

The Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP) is a coordinated effort to agree on a policy-relevant, analytical model, build a measurement infrastructure and gather comparable data.

Structural and Demographic Business Statistics (SDBS), OECD

The Structural and Demographic Business Statistics database (SDBS) provides information at a very detailed sectoral level including: turnover, value-added, production, operating surplus, employment, labour costs and investment to name but a few. The breakdown by industrial sector, including services, is supplemented by a further breakdown into size classes.

Entrepreneurship at a Glance: 2018 Highlights

This booklet presents a compilation of frequently used graphs on entrepreneurship trends and SME performance such as new enterprise creations, bankruptcies, job creation rate, enterprises & employment by size.

Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2017

Women taking risks: closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship

Women entrepreneurship is increasingly recognised as a key source of employment creation and innovation, and for addressing inequalities.

Business start-up rates diverging across OECD economies

Diverging patterns of business start-up rates are emerging across OECD economies five years after the sharp, synchronized falls recorded at the beginning of the financial crisis.

Promote entrepreneurship to exit the crisis, OECD says

Start-up rates in most countries are edging back toward their pre-crisis levels, but not all countries have seen significant acceleration in new businesses, according to a new OECD report.