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Book Description
This publication gives a comprehensive picture of the structure, development and characteristics of the European business economy and its different sectors. It presents the latest available statistics from a wide selection of statistical sources describing for each activity: production and employment; country specialisation and regional distribution; cost structure, productivity and profitability; external trade, and more. The publication covers 'the business economy', which is the sum of industry, construction and services (NACE Rev. 1.1 sections C to K). It does not cover agriculture, forestry and fishing, nor the public administration and largely non-market services such as education and health. The business economy is divided into 25 main sectors, which are analysed in detail in separate chapters. The first chapter provides a general overview of the EU's business economy, with comparisons across the main sectors. In addition, it provides information of a horizontal nature based on data on business demography and foreign controlled enterprises, as well as size class analysis of enterprises' population. A particular effort has been made in this edition to include, where available, data at the most detailed activity level (NACE Rev. 1.1 four digit or class level) and to facilitate further comparisons across the different activities of the business economy.
