This Database covers indicators of firm activity at the subnational level which spans across the regions of 27 OECD countries, with two separate datasets one for employer and the other for all firms, including non-employer firms. The indicators present a set of demographic events which follow...

This dataset provides quarterly data on the number of enterprise entries, enterprise exits and the number of bankruptcies. This indicator is disaggregated by: Grand total and Total (corporations only). Since new and young firms contribute critically to job creation, innovation and growth,...

Self-employment is defined as the employment of employers, workers who work for themselves, members of producers' co-operatives, and unpaid family workers. The latter are unpaid in the sense that they lack a formal contract to receive a fixed amount of income at regular intervals, but they share...

Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs are important sources of innovation, growth and employment. The recent crisis, characterised by tighter credit restrictions, has arguably hampered new start-ups and impeded growth in existing start-ups as well as their ability to survive in tough market...

This indicator covers two factors which are important when starting a business: Financial account holders : This indicator is the number of men (women) aged 15+ who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution, or...