Employment in the market economy in the European Union – an analysis based on the structural business statistics. 2004 edition

The Structural Business Statistics (SBS) represents the most complete source of data on business in the European Union. The SBS provide information about most aspects of enterprise activity on a detailed breakdown of economic sector. The purpose of the publication is to increase knowledge and understanding of employment and business related issues across the European Union. The publication presents a fairly complete and coherent picture on, for example, the scale of business output and employment in different parts of the Union. It will also indicate the division of employment and output between different economic activities, the relative importance of different sized enterprises, their productivity and costs of production and the amount of investment undertaken. Since the data on employment and business related variables (output, value are compiled and classified on the same basis within the SBS framework, their combined use ensures that analysis done is internally consistent.