Table 4
Entry by size category in the 2002 cohort

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Entry by size category in the 2002 cohort

Table summary
This table displays the results of entry by size category in the 2002 cohort. The information is grouped by size categories appearing as row headers, firm population , new firms, entry rate and share of entrants, calculated using thousands and percent units of measure appearing as column headers.

Size categories Firm population  Note 1 New firms Entry rate Share of entrants
  thousands percent
Business sector (all firms) 865.8 89.3 10.3 100.0
Greater than 0, and less than or equal to 1 ALU 284.7 56.9 20.0 63.7
Greater than 1, and less than or equal to 5 ALUs 344.3 26.2 7.6 29.3
Greater than 5, and less than or equal to 10 ALUs 103.3 3.6 3.5 4.0
Greater than 10, and less than or equal to 20 ALUs 62.7 1.5 2.4 1.7
Greater than 20, and less than or equal to 50 ALUs 44.7 0.8 1.8 0.9
Greater than 50, and less than or equal to 100 ALUs 15.1 0.2 1.3 0.2
Greater than 100 ALUs 11.0 0.1 0.9 0.1
Follows Ciobanu and Wang (2012) and uses the average firm population between 2001 and 2002 as the firm population for comparison against entry.        
Note(s): ALU: average labour unit.        
         
1.
Follows Ciobanu and Wang (2012) and uses the average firm population between 2001 and 2002 as the firm population for comparison against entry.
Note(s):
ALU: average labour unit.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, authors' calculations.
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