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 Enterprises (Early series 1990-2003 - No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Enterprises (Early series 1990-2003 - No.) by Economic activity (CAE Rev. 2); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Annual business survey
First available period 1990
Last available period 2003
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Economic activity (CAE Rev. 2)
Concepts
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Definition Until 1995, enterprises that presented, in the Business register (FUE), simultaneously persons employed = 0 and turnover = 0, were excluded from the "universe". Just the ones with persons employed = 0 and turnover > 0 were considered. In 1996, we assumed the value of 1 for the persons employed, for all enterprises (individual enterprises included) that there was no information about persons employed in the Business register, but that was reconfirmed as being active by the fiscal sources.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 16/03/2016


information presented in 17/7/2024