A multistate demographic model for firms in the province of Gelderland



3 Data

The PWE register of business establishments

The data used in this paper were obtained from the PWE (provincial employment
inquiry) register of business establishments in the province of Gelderland (the
Netherlands), which was provided by the province of Gelderland. The PWE is a
regional subdivision of LISA (National Information System Labour Markets). LISA
was originally set up as an administrative register for the implementation of social
security laws. Currently it is a main source for socio-economic and spatial-economic
analysis in the Netherlands. The PWE register holds information on all business
establishments in Gelderland, where paid work is being performed. Besides firm
establishments the PWE register also holds information on governmental
establishments, educational establishments, public health services and establishments
for free professions.

The basic unit in the PWE register is an establishment, which is defined as “a location
of a firm, institute, or free profession (i.e. any factory, workplace, shop or other working
accomodation, or a complex of these) in which or from where an aconomic activity or
independent profession is performed by one or more employed persons (at least one
person for 12 hours per week)”.

Numbers of firms

For our research we were provided with PWE-data from 1986 up to 2002. Table 1
shows the number of establishments and number of employed per year.

Table 1: Number of establishments and number of employed in the province of

Gelderland, 1986-2002___________________________________________________

Year

Number of establishments

Number of employed (including
parttime and agency staff)

1986

70,756

594,454

1987

71,887

608,595

1988

73,437

622,755

1989

73,242

637,286

1990

75,791

664,845

1991

76,609

696,554

1992

79,755

713,957

1993

81,749

722,556

1994

86,766

732,106

1995

90,375

751,207

1996

93,527

772,599

1997

96,113

795,361

1998

99,631

829,524

1999

102,855

856,658

2000

104,051

874,665

2001

105,693

892,064

____________2002________

_________________106,334___________

_____________892,400____________

During the period 1986-2002 both the number of firms and the number of employed in
Gelderland grew with fifty percent, or 2.6 percent per year. On average each
establishment employed 8.5 persons (including parttime and agency staff).

The PWE files contain a lot of information per establishment. In this paper we used the
following variables:

- SBI’93 code (5-digit);



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