High-growth enterprises in the market sector

The statistic on high-growth enterprises in the market sector provides information on the number and the total employment according to the activity. A high-growth enterprise is an enterprise with more than 10 employees in the reference year T which registers an average annual 10 % growth over the three following years. The growth is adjusted for jobs from the takeover of other enterprises during the three-years window. This is an organic growth. An enterprise is considered to be a high-growth enterprise in the year T if the 3 following conditions are ALL fulfilled: it is not a birth in the year T-3. it has more than 10 employees in the year T-3. This threshold is used to avoid including very small companies with high growth from 2 to 5 employees for example. this enterprise has a growth of more than 10 % over the period of 3 years. This is obtained by the following formula: It should be noted that the calculation of employment in T excludes employees from any takeover by the enterprise during the period [T-3 ;T]. So, when an acquisition is recorded over the period [T-3 ;T], we subtract from the number of employees in T the number of employees of the enterprise taken over at the time of the acquisition. Population Nace rev.2 B to N, K and S95.