Business Demography Statistics

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Overview

Survey Name

• Business Demography Statistics

Survey Type

• Analytic statistics

Type of Statistics

• General statistics (No. 101078, Dec. 22, 2012)

Purpose

• To identify and analyze a life cycle and job creation effect of an enterprise such as the creation, closure, survival rates and (high) growth of a company over time by using the government's administrative data

Frequency

• Annual

Target Population

• A company having more than 1 regular worker or sales volume with a purpose of making profits Non profit organizations are excluded.
  • A: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
  • O: Public administration and defense; compulsory social security
  • T: Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services- producing activities of households for own use
  • U: Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
  • K (64992): Financial holding company

Survey Unit and Target Population Size Enterprise

• (Corporation) Definition of a company headquarter excluding subsidiaries
• (Individual enterprise) Definition of an individual who has a business registration number

Survey Reference Period and Date

• Annual (January 1st to December 31st)

History

• Dec. 2012: Approved the production of statistics
• Dec. 2012: Published the first survey results (as a result of developing the administrative statistics on business demography )
• Dec. 2013: Revision approved
  • (Added) Survival rates of new enterprises on a yearly basis
  • (Sub division) Sub divided industry classification [12 industrial sections → 77 industrial divisions]
  • (Sub division) Sub divided items by employment size
• Dec. 2014: Revision approved
  • (Added) the number of companies by sales volume, the number of employees by employment size
  • (Sub division) Main classification of the manufacturing industry (24 industrial divisions) → Sub classification (81 industrial groups)
  • (Modification) Change in a way to mark survival rates

Reference for Use

• The statistics is calculated based on administration data (business registration, value added tax, etc.) and thus may be different from statistics obtained through a survey.
• Data was collected from commercial enterprises which have sales amounts and regular workers (excluding non-paid, daily or temporary workers) in a survey year, excluding non profit organizations.
• The number of employees includes not only regular employees, but also employers.
• As for incorporated enterprise, subsidiaries are subjected to headquarter for statistics calculation. But, in case of a single individual's multiple business registration, each business registration is regarded as being each different enterprise.

Data Provision

Method of Publication and URL

• Press release, KOSIS, Statistics Korea website

Publication Frequency

• Annual

Publication Title

• None

Contact

Director for International Cooperation. Tel: