Website: Statistics: Structural business statistics

Structural business statistics (SBS) and global business activities cover industry, construction, trade and services. Presented according to the NACE activity classification, they describe the structure, conduct and performance of businesses across the European Union (EU) – data are available for the EU28/EU27 and for the Member States.

The statistics can be broken down to a very detailed sectoral level (several hundred economic activities). A subset of the SBS information is also available for European regions, as well as according to the size of enterprises. The information contained within SBS is therefore more detailed than national accounts (which contain a selection of data for 61 NACE Rev. 1.1 divisions, of which 48 are within the business economy covered by SBS).

The main indicators within SBS are generally collected and presented as monetary values, or as counts (for example, numbers of enterprises or persons employed); this is in contrast to short-term business statistics, where the data are presented as indices. Generally SBS does not collect information on products. The external trade and the production of specific products are covered by external trade statistics and/or PRODCOM.