High growth enterprises in Finland Sensitivity testing OECD Meeting on Entrepreneurship Indicators

Sensitivity testing on Finnish data Process and methodology in brief Growth rate 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 40% Growth by number of employees, turnover Turnover threshold? Growth rate and data confidentiality Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007

Process and methodology High growth enterprises 2001-2004, 2002-2005 and 2003-2006 Inclusion/ exclusion of mergers Merger information only from administrative source, no ‘matching’ techniques used 10 employees threshold, same year births excluded Series compiled to 15-40% average growth Series compiled with included/excluded merger enterprises HG turnover series with 0, 100.00 and 1.000.000 euro thresholds Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007

Years 2001,2002, 2003 HG employment Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007

Growth % impact on number of enterprises Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007

Growth % impact on data availability Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007

Turnover threshold: 0, 100.000 and 1.000.000 euro Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007

Employee vs. turnover series Finnish series ‘not behaving well’ Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007

Confidentiality Finland: Absolute turnover confidential on enterprise level Large number of confidential or empty cells already in this test 21 class out of 80 confidential + 12 empty (emp. based) 11 + 10 on (turnover based) -> problems with secondary confidentiality treatment -> empl. and turnover series dependent in confidentiality treatment Timo Laukkanen 19.11.2007