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 Birth rate (%) of enterprises
Characteristic Description
Name Birth rate (%) of Enterprises by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Business demography
First available period 2004
Last available period 2012
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
  • ENTERPRISE BIRTH RATE:  Quotient between the number of enterprise births and the number of active enterprises in the reference period.
Formule

(Number of real births of enterprises in the year n/ Number of active enterprises in the year n)*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 04/04/2014


information presented in 22/10/2025