Timely Indicators of Entrepreneurship (ISIC4)
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Since new and young firms contribute critically to job creation, innovation and growth, observing recent trends of firm formation provides valuable information to policy makers.

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STD.IndServStat@oecd.org

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Data sources vary according to the country. Please refer to country-specific metadata.

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Quarterly

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For the purpose of presentation of quarterly series, seasonal adjustment is applied using TramoSeats algorithm with 5 regressors: log/level, trading days, Easter, outlier detection, and automatic model identification). Series are log-transformed and decomposed into a trend component. Finally, index is calculated based on a 2007 (2007 = average of 2007 quarters) in order to present movements between the base year and a given quarter.

Timely Indicators of Entrepreneurship (ISIC4)Abstract

Since new and young firms contribute critically to job creation, innovation and growth, observing recent trends of firm formation provides valuable information to policy makers.

Measuring Entrepreneurshiphttp://www.oecd.org/std/46413155.pdfContact person/organisation

STD.IndServStat@oecd.org

Data source(s) used

Data sources vary according to the country. Please refer to country-specific metadata.

Unit of measure usedIndexPeriodicity

Quarterly

Seasonal adjustment

For the purpose of presentation of quarterly series, seasonal adjustment is applied using TramoSeats algorithm with 5 regressors: log/level, trading days, Easter, outlier detection, and automatic model identification). Series are log-transformed and decomposed into a trend component. Finally, index is calculated based on a 2007 (2007 = average of 2007 quarters) in order to present movements between the base year and a given quarter.