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INTRODUCTION
This publication presents counts of businesses sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Business Register (ABSBR).
This publication represents the fifth update to Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, initially released in February 2007.
This series replaces all previous business counts releases, which can be found on the ABS website.
CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS RELEASE
A new derived employment variable has been used to generate the employment size ranges in Tables 13 to 16 in this release of Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits. The ABS has previously used payment summary information, sourced from the Australian Taxation Office, to generate employment size ranges. Payment summaries provide a count of all employees who work (or have worked) for a businesses during the financial year. The ABS has taken the decision to use additional information including Business Activity Statement (BAS) wages and salaries and also data from ABS business surveys, to derive an estimate of the number of employees at the end of the financial year. Introduction of the derived employment variable has resulted in approximately 5.3% of businesses changing their employment size category. A more detailed explanation of the methodological change and its impact upon business size counts can be found in the Technical Note 2 Improved Employment Range.
The presentation of the conceptual and practical basis for Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits does not include a count of total Australian Business Numbers (ABN's) registered with the Australian Business Register (ABR). The large number of ongoing ABN applications requires the timing of ABN count data to be coordinated to ensure published data between the two agencies are comparable. The ABS is working with the ABR and plans to publish ABN count information in the next release of Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits.
FUTURE RELEASES
The next release of Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits is currently scheduled for release in February 2015.
REMOVAL OF PDF
Some content has been replaced to correct data and textual analyses of these data, and to clarify some statements. Given the June 2014 edition has been released already, the publication PDF has been withdrawn from the ABS website. However, the entire content of this PDF remains freely accessible from the ABS website in webpage, Excel spreadsheet and ABS.Stat formats.
INQUIRIES
For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.
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