eu_business_formation
type: Dataset
conforms to: http://mlcommons.org/croissant/1.0
title: EU Business Formation Dynamics - Enterprise Births, Deaths & Survival
description: Net business creation across Europe: enterprise births, deaths, active-population, birth/death/churn rates, net population growth, jobs created & lost, and 1/3/5-year survival rates - by country x NACE sector x year, 2009-2023. Sourced from Eurostat Business Demography (bd_size), cleaned to one tidy Parquet panel. Aggregate flows only, no company-level data.
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
creator: Eurostat (European Commission) - Business Demography
publisher: ReadySet
keywords: Reference
keywords: official-data
keywords: AI-training-safe
keywords: redistributable
keywords: time-series
keywords: parquet
temporal coverage: 2009-01-01/2023-01-01
distribution: eu-business-formation.parquet
record set: eu-business-formation

eu-business-formation.parquet
type: FileObject
encoding format: application/vnd.apache.parquet

eu-business-formation
type: RecordSet
field: zone
field: ts
field: series
field: value
field: unit

zone
type: Field
description: ISO-2 country code (EU/EFTA/candidate)
data type: Text

ts
type: Field
description: First day of the reference year
data type: DateTime

series
type: Field
description: Indicator - NACE sector, e.g. 'Enterprise births - Manufacturing'
data type: Text

value
type: Field
description: The figure (count, persons, or % per the unit)
data type: Float

unit
type: Field
description: Unit of the value (count / persons / %)
data type: Text