Defining Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
For the purposes of this report, SMEs are defined as enterprises with 19 or fewer employees. However, for those wishing to use other categorisations, this report provides information broken down by the following firm size categories:
- Zero employees
- 1–5 employees
- 6–19 employees
- 20–49 employees
- 50–99 employees
- 100–499 employees
- 500 or more employees.
Enterprises in these categories correspond to tax reporting units. Enterprises represent a legal entity, which may be a company, partnership, trust, estate, incorporated society, producer board, local or central government organisation, religious organisation, voluntary organisation or self-employed individual. The number of employees at the enterprise level is equivalent to the sum of employees of its associated geographic unit(s). Enterprises involved in farming are excluded.
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