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

2. 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
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3. Process and methodology
High growth enterprises , and
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, and euro thresholds
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4. Years 2001,2002, 2003 HG employment
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5. Growth % impact on number of enterprises
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6. Growth % impact on data availability
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7. Turnover threshold: 0, 100.000 and 1.000.000 euro
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8. Employee vs. turnover series
Finnish series ‘not behaving well’
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9. 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) on (turnover based) -> problems with secondary confidentiality treatment -> empl. and turnover series dependent in confidentiality treatment
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