The statistics presented in this report include both public and private enterprises. Public enterprises include central and local government enterprises, other local authorities and rūnanga iwi. Private enterprises included private corporate and non-corporate producer enterprises, producer boards, private registered banks and private insurance and pension funds. The following table shows the number of enterprises in the private and government sectors.

Table 1: Private and Government Sector Enterprises by Size, as at February 2005
EC Size Group	Number of Enterprises
EC Size Group	Private Sector	Government Sector
0	210,899	272
1-5	77,756	393
6-9	17,348	473
10-19	14,145	713
20-49	7,317	835
50-99	2,056	273
100-499	1,311	240
500+	215	94

The number of SMEs increased in the year to February 2005, although the proportion of SMEs remained relatively constant.

The number of SMEs increased by 3.1 percent in the year to February 2005, down from a 10.2 percent increase in the year to February 2004. The total number of enterprises also rose by 3.1 percent from 324,293 in February 2004 to 334,340 in February 2005.

The proportion of firms defined as SMEs was 96.3 percent as at February 2005, the same figure reported in last year's report.

Figure 2: Cumulative Enterprise Count by EC Size Group, as at February 2005

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EC Size Group	Cumulative Number of Enterprises
0	211,171
1-5	289,320
6-9	307,141
10-19	321,999
20-49	330,151
50-99	332,480
100-499	334,031
500+	334,340

Table 2: Annual Percentage Change in Numbers of Enterprises
EC Size Group	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
0	-1.55%	2.74%	4.63%	14.82%	0.67%
1-5	1.05%	2.39%	3.51%	1.64%	8.81%
6-9	2.48%	3.45%	8.20%	1.97%	5.68%
10-19	3.76%	3.47%	9.28%	2.50%	7.01%
20-49	1.70%	1.97%	8.31%	3.62%	2.68%
50-99	2.53%	2.32%	5.87%	4.33%	3.97%
100-499	4.58%	0.36%	1.43%	4.30%	4.87%
500+	4.86%	7.34%	3.60%	2.43%	4.75%
Total	-0.35%	2.69%	4.84%	9.95%	3.10%

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