Table
| 2007 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal owned enterprises1 | Private and public limited companies | |||||||||||
| Number of entrepreneurs | Per cent survival | Number of entrepreneurs | Per cent survival | |||||||||
| 1 year | 2 years | 3 years | 4 years | 5 years | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years | 4 years | 5 years | |||
| 1Personal owned enterprises are sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liability. | ||||||||||||
| 2Tertiary education, short, comprises higher education 4 years or shorter. | ||||||||||||
| 3Tertiary education, long, comprises higher education more than 4 years. | ||||||||||||
| Sex | ||||||||||||
| Total | 30 618 | 49.4 | 39.0 | 32.1 | 27.4 | 23.5 | 21 231 | 70.4 | 68.0 | 59.2 | 51.7 | 46.9 |
| Males | 20 701 | 51.5 | 41.5 | 34.2 | 29.2 | 25.0 | 17 671 | 69.7 | 67.6 | 58.9 | 51.3 | 46.6 |
| Females | 9 917 | 45.2 | 33.7 | 27.7 | 23.5 | 20.4 | 3 560 | 73.4 | 70.0 | 61.0 | 53.6 | 48.7 |
| Age | ||||||||||||
| All ages | 30 618 | 49.4 | 39.0 | 32.1 | 27.4 | 23.5 | 21 231 | 70.4 | 68.0 | 59.2 | 51.7 | 46.9 |
| 16-24 years | 4 165 | 44.2 | 30.9 | 24.6 | 20.3 | 16.7 | 628 | 73.7 | 69.3 | 59.4 | 50.0 | 45.1 |
| 25-34 years | 10 965 | 49.1 | 37.6 | 30.4 | 25.5 | 21.7 | 4 366 | 74.6 | 69.7 | 59.1 | 52.0 | 46.5 |
| 35-44 years | 8 123 | 51.6 | 41.8 | 34.6 | 29.8 | 25.5 | 7 840 | 71.2 | 68.7 | 60.1 | 52.4 | 47.3 |
| 45-54 years | 4 543 | 50.0 | 41.8 | 35.2 | 31.1 | 27.4 | 5 100 | 67.6 | 66.5 | 58.3 | 51.2 | 46.6 |
| 55-66 years | 2 390 | 52.0 | 43.6 | 37.3 | 32.4 | 28.6 | 2 861 | 66.0 | 65.9 | 58.6 | 51.1 | 47.4 |
| 67 years or older | 432 | 48.4 | 42.8 | 36.6 | 29.4 | 25.7 | 436 | 68.3 | 66.3 | 59.2 | 51.1 | 47.0 |
| Unknown age | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Level of education | ||||||||||||
| All educational levels | 30 618 | 49.4 | 39.0 | 32.1 | 27.4 | 23.5 | 21 231 | 70.4 | 68.0 | 59.2 | 51.7 | 46.9 |
| Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2) | 5 687 | 45.8 | 37.2 | 29.9 | 24.3 | 20.2 | 2 780 | 74.1 | 71.3 | 60.2 | 51.2 | 45.4 |
| Upper secondary education (level 3-5) | 11 283 | 53.7 | 43.8 | 36.3 | 31.4 | 27.0 | 9 733 | 71.6 | 70.3 | 61.6 | 54.3 | 49.2 |
| Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)2 | 6 876 | 45.0 | 32.0 | 26.7 | 23.1 | 20.1 | 5 563 | 68.2 | 64.8 | 57.0 | 50.0 | 45.4 |
| Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)3 | 2 837 | 50.9 | 40.1 | 33.7 | 30.2 | 27.1 | 2 456 | 65.8 | 62.3 | 55.8 | 47.7 | 44.3 |
| Unknown or no completed education (9) | 3 935 | 49.3 | 39.1 | 31.1 | 25.7 | 21.4 | 699 | 71.0 | 67.0 | 52.5 | 45.5 | 41.6 |