Table 1.

Cohort98, firms and jobs summary, birth to age 15

	birth	survivors	age 15	summary statistics
		at birth
firms ’000	239.6	26.2	26.2	survival ratio (%)	10.9
jobs ’000	1123.7	163.4	394.9	net job creation ’000	231.5
jobs/firm	4.69	6.25	15.09	growth ratio	2.414

Source: calculated from the Longitudinal BSD, see Section 3 for a description

Notes:

1. ‘survival ratio’ is the ratio of firm numbers at age 15 to firm numbers at birth

2. ‘net job creation’ is the cohort jobs at age 15 less survivor jobs at birth

3. ‘growth ratio’ is the ratio of jobs/firm at age 15 to jobs/firm in survivors at birth