Number of companies producing shoes in France 2008-2019

b: Break in time series.
* This sector corresponds to CE Rev. 2 code C152

** break in series

*** Forecast data for year 2018

Structural Business Statistics (SBS) describe the economy through the observation of the activity of units engaged in an economic activity. They answer such questions as: how much wealth is created in an activity? How many work forces are needed to create this wealth? How is this activity developing? Is this activity participating in the growth of the economy? How much investments are realized in this activity?

The SBS characteristics are defined in Commission Regulation 250/2009. This regulation covers all business demographic, employment and monetary characteristics as well as indicators consisting of ratios of monetary characteristics or per head values.Characteristics and indicators are coded by a 5 digit number. The first two digits indicate the set the characteristics belong to. Some main characteristics collected in the framework of the structural business statistics are:

Business Demographic variables: (set of characteristics coded as 11 xx x)

- number of enterprises: a count of the number of enterprises active during at least a part of the reference period.