ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDICATORS PROGRAMME (EIP) - TIMELY INDICATORS

 

Austria

Links

• Statistics Austria- Business demography and employer enterprise demography (EIP definitions, same data)
• Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO) - Data on business start-ups, new businesses
• Kreditschutzverband (Creations)
• Kreditschutzverband (Insolvencies, Cessations)

Organisation

• Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO)

Source

Content, coverage, definition

Methodology on line

More details available with a PIN code.

Statistical units

WKO: enterprises

New establishment are not taken into accounts

Threshold (Size/turnover)

See

Breakdowns (Activities/legal forms/size)

available: breakdown b y legal form, by main acitivities (see below), by top 30 activities ranked by number of creations

Artisanat
Industrie
Commerce
Banque et assurance
Transport
Industrie du tourisme et des loisirs
Information et consulting

Purity

Data refer to "real" creations i.e. excluding take-overs, changes in legal forms etc.

Translation

Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO)

Data on business start-ups
Main results of the founding WKO Statistics

Start-ups by province
Start-ups to legal
Start-ups to divisions
Start-ups in sections
New businesses (sole proprietorships by gender)
New businesses (sole proprietorships) by age group

Founding statistics WKO:
Basic observations
Concept definition
Method Description
Start-ups - Details (only for members WK; PIN code is required!)

 

Kreditschutzverband (private company, largest credit organisation in Austria. Leader in business information)

Presse>Statistiken

The insolvency statistics provide information on all the Austrian insolvency (bankruptcy and opened bankruptcy claims rejected for lack of funds) according to the amount of exposures, broken down by province, by industry and by legal forms. The analysis is based on the one hand, the data transmitted to the competent regional courts and district courts, and other information from the KSV-economic database.

The KSV created these reports regularly to the first quarter, with the first half, for the first through third quarter and an annual evaluation. In addition, a bankruptcy this is a detailed overview of the current economic situation in Austria. The comparison of the bankruptcy data reflects the current state of the economy.
The evaluation of the KSV-Bankruptcy statistics are based on a standardized method, which regularly provides the same kind of analysis and, therefore, the insolvency figures for years consistently maps.

Through the comparability of statistics arise KSV room for interpretation that reflects a realistic picture of the underlying analysis in the overall economic context. Deviations may arise - if unsuccessful bankruptcy claims, opened proceedings - explained by the fact that depending on the procedure of the insolvency of a company is counted only once per year. Also changes in the bankruptcy court jurisdiction during the course most likely to make slight shifts.

In addition to regularly publish statistics on the payment practices and the businesses in Austria.

Insolvenzen (insolvencies, banruptcies)
Gründungen (créations)

 

Bankruptcy statistics Company 2009 (2010-01-12)
It happened as it had to come: The company bankruptcies in the year 2009 are as expected in the air. In fact, the increase was well within limits. Overall, there was an increase in corporate defaults from 9.3% to 6902 cases.

Bankruptcy statistics Company I.-III. Quarter of 2009 (2009-10-06)
In the first nine months the insolvency rate in Austria increased by 10.5% higher than last year.

 

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