Statistics for Family Businesses

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Objective / Scene Setter:

The aim of this call is to provide policy-makers and relevant stakeholders for credible, comparable and systematic information and indicators on the role of the family businesses in national economies and to offer usable and practical information to stakeholders for their decision making. The projects selected should also support the development of statistics for the first time in countries which have not collected yet this information. The European Commission will co-finance actions carried out by national statistical offices, or by other organisations but in cooperation, collaboration or partnership with a national (federal or regional) statistical office, for the collection of statistical data, measuring the performance of each group of family owned enterprises within the economy, the value of the goods and services produced, the employment generated, evaluation the sector in terms of its contribution to GDP, jobs, capital investment and tax revenues, its role in the balance of payment and other information.

Scope:

The expected results are the deliveries ofmethodological reportsfor collection of statistical data on family business within the national economies.

Expected Impact:

It is expected that the projects will be implemented in at least 6-7 countries and that the information produced in reports will be used for further policy development. In a longer term the implementation of proposed activities should lead to improved evidence bases in the area of family businesses and to increased number of countries where such data is collected.