Smb / SME

About

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

In official European statistics:

• SMEs can currently only be identified by employment size as enterprises with fewer than 250 persons employed.
• they represent around 99 % of all enterprises and employ an increasing number of persons.
• they account for around two-thirds of total employment in the EU
• 94 % are independent. (not controlled or control another enterprise)

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The 2016 microdata linking (MDL) project linked data from

• structural business statistics (SBS),
• international trade in goods statistics (ITGS),
• business demography (BD)
• and business registers (BRs).

Others:

• https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Statistics_on_small_and_medium-sized_enterprises
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• Data - Mining Industry by employment size class (NACE Rev. 2, B-E)
• https://www.statista.com/statistics/878412/number-of-smes-in-europe-by-size/

Data

• sbs_sc_sca_r2 - 144 data tables - Annual enterprise statistics by size class for special aggregates of activities (NACE Rev. 2)