Overseas Equity

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SMEs in New Zealand: Structure and Dynamics - 2003

[ Last Updated 4 November 2005 ]

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 2000 to February 2002. The majority of businesses in all three years have less than 1% overseas equity. The percentage of all businesses with more than 50% overseas equity increased slightly in 2001, but returned to 2000 levels by 2002.

Table 8: Percentage of Businesses with Overseas Equity by FTE Category (as at February)

Overseas Equity	Year	FTE Size Category
Overseas Equity	Year	0-5	6-9	10-49	50-99	100+	All
Less than 1%	2000	98.3	97.3	93.5	80.0	62.0	97.7
	2001	98.3	97.6	94.3	83.2	75.5	98.0
	2002	98.2	97.1	93.4	79.4	62.8	97.6
1% or more but less than 25%	2000	0.2	0.3	0.7	1.4	2.4	0.3
	2001	0.3	0.4	0.8	2.1	3.1	0.4
	2002	0.3	0.4	0.7	1.6	3.4	0.3
25% or more but less than 50%	2000	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.6	1.6	0.2
	2001	0.1	0.2	0.5	1.0	1.9	0.2
	2002	0.1	0.2	0.5	1.0	1.9	0.2
50% or more	2000	1.3	2.2	5.5	17.8	34.2	1.9
	2001	1.0	1.7	4.4	13.2	19.3	0.0
	2002	1.4	2.2	5.4	17.6	32.2	1.9

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