Statistical Analysis of Entrepreneurial Activity

The article opens with the concept of «entrepreneurial activity» and further explains its relevance, in view of the role of entrepreneurship in this era and its future importance for the science and technology, economics and society. The authors emphasize the need to improve statistical research tools for studying entrepreneurial activity based on harmonized international statistical standards adapted to the Russian context.

The information and statistical aspect of the study of entrepreneurial activity (in particular the Statistical Register of Business Entities of the Federal State Statistics Service) and the results of pilot project on the development of business demography indicators are analyzed. The indicators characterizing entrepreneurial activity are listed, their content and formulas, the primary source of data are discussed. Then the authors commented on data on birth rates and the scale of the official liquidation of entrepreneurial objects, entrepreneurial activity of enterprises by type of economic activity, the dynamics of individual and national characteristics of entrepreneurship, the dynamics of entrepreneurial intentions, the level of entrepreneurial activity. The countries are rated by the level of entrepreneurial activity by selected factors of competitiveness (resources, borrowed current technologies, innovations).

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