Overseas Equity
Over 97% of businesses have less than 1% overseas equity.
Table 8 shows the percentages of all businesses by degree of overseas equity for the years February 2002 and February 2003. The majority of businesses in both years have no overseas equity. The percentage of all businesses with more than 50 percent overseas equity was very similar in 2002 and 2003.
Table 8: Percentage of Businesses with Overseas Equity by FTE Category, as at February| Overseas Equity % | Year | FTE Size Group | All |
| 0) 0 | 1) 1-5 | 2) 6-9 | 3) 10-19 | 4) 20-49 | 5) 50-99 | 6) 100-499 | 7) 500+ |
| 0) 0 | 2002 | 95.7% | 99.0% | 97.2% | 94.8% | 90.6% | 79.7% | 65.6% | 52.2% | 97.6% |
| 2003 | 96% | 99.0% | 97.0% | 95.3% | 90.5% | 80.7% | 67.0% | 49.2% | 97.7% |
| 1) 1-24 | 2002 | 0.8% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 1.2% | 1.6% | 3.1% | 3.9% | 0.3% |
| 2003 | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.7% | 1.2% | 2.2% | 3.1% | 7.4% | 0.3% |
| 2) 25-49 | 2002 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.6% | 2.6% | 0.2% |
| 2003 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 1.3% | 2.5% | 0.2% |
| 3) 50 or more | 2002 | 3.3% | 0.8% | 2.2% | 4.2% | 7.7% | 17.6% | 29.6% | 41.3% | 1.9% |
| 2003 | 3.2% | 0.8% | 2.3% | 3.7% | 7.7% | 16.1% | 28.6% | 41.0% | 1.9% |
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