Women management, newly started companies

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Last update: 2023-07-14

Explanation

The Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, is responsible for official statistics on newly-started companies. The survey is carried out by Statistics Sweden, SCB. The purpose of the survey is to assess the number of newly-started companies in a given year in Sweden by county and industry. The survey is a selective survey and the result is based on the replies to a postal survey, unless otherwise stated.
A company is regarded as newly started when:

the operation is completely newly started or
the operation has been restarted after having been dormant for at least two years or
a person starts a business to run an operation which the person previously carried out as an employee.

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Newly started companies by county in 2022, proportion (%) by gender
Region	Women	Newly started companies per 1000 women aged 16-64	Men	Newly started companies per 1000 men aged 16-64
Stockholm County	32,5	9,3	64,8	18,0
Uppsala County	31,8	6,8	66,9	13,9
Södermanland County	31,7	6,5	66,8	13,1
Östergötland County	28,9	5,4	69,7	12,1
Jönköping County	28,7	5,5	69,7	12,3
Kronoberg County	28,3	5,9	69,8	13,4
Kalmar County	33,9	6,7	64,7	12,0
Gotland County	39,2	9,4	59,3	14,0
Blekinge County	30,6	6,0	68,1	11,9
Skåne County	31,9	7,7	66,1	15,5
Halland County	31,0	7,2	66,8	14,9
Västra Götaland County	30,4	7,0	67,5	14,6
Värmland County	30,5	5,8	67,8	12,0
Örebro County	29,7	6,1	68,7	13,5
Västmanland County	32,4	6,6	66,5	12,9
Dalarna County	30,4	6,5	67,5	13,5
Gävleborg County	30,1	5,7	67,6	12,2
Västernorrland County	30,4	6,2	68,2	13,1
Jämtland County	31,4	8,2	66,5	16,5
Västerbotten County	29,9	5,7	68,8	12,2
Norrbotten County	28,5	6,6	69,0	14,3
Sweden	31,3	7,3	66,6	14,9
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 by gender of management.

Year	Halland County		Sweden
Year	Women	Men	Women	Men
2002	29,0	71,0	31,4	66,4
2003	28,2	71,8	31,5	66,5
2004	32,4	67,6	32,2	65,4
2005	35,2	64,8	33,7	66,3
2006	34,9	65,1	35,0	65,0
2007	33,9	66,1	33,7	66,3
2008	34,7	65,3	34,1	65,9
2009	32,8	59,9	33,1	60,9
2010	34,3	57,9	32,0	60,6
2011	32,0	59,3	31,2	59,9
2012	34,4	56,1	31,1	59,9
2013	34,5	65,5	34,0	66,0
2014	35,1	64,9	34,2	65,8
2015	32,7	67,3	33,5	66,5
2016	32,1	66,0	32,1	66,4
2017	31,5	67,3	31,6	66,9
2018	33,0	65,9	32,3	66,3
2019	34,6	64,3	32,5	66,0
2020	33,6	65,4	32,4	66,4
2021	30,9	65,1	32,6	64,9
2022	31,0	66,8	31,3	66,6
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 per 1000 inhabitants

Year	Halland County			Sweden
Year	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.
2002	3,6	8,1	5,9	4,2	8,7	6,6
2003	3,2	7,9	5,7	4,1	8,4	6,4
2004	4,0	8,7	6,4	4,7	9,4	7,3
2005	4,9	9,2	7,0	5,2	9,9	7,6
2006	4,9	8,9	7,0	5,4	9,6	7,6
2007	6,1	11,7	9,6	6,2	11,9	9,7
2008	5,7	10,6	8,9	6,3	11,8	9,7
2009	6,2	11,2	9,4	6,7	11,9	10,0
2010	8,0	13,2	11,5	7,6	13,9	11,6
2011	7,9	14,3	12,2	7,8	14,5	12,3
2012	7,8	12,6	11,3	7,3	13,6	11,5
2013	7,8	14,6	11,2	7,9	14,9	11,5
2014	8,6	15,5	12,1	8,3	15,4	11,9
2015	7,6	15,2	11,5	7,9	15,1	11,6
2016	7,6	15,1	11,4	7,6	15,0	11,4
2017	7,5	15,4	11,7	7,3	14,8	11,3
2018	6,8	13,0	10,1	7,1	14,0	10,8
2019	7,7	13,7	10,8	7,1	13,8	10,6
2020	8,1	15,1	11,8	7,7	15,1	11,7
2021	8,0	16,1	12,6	8,3	15,7	12,4
2022	7,2	14,9	11,4	7,3	14,9	11,4
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 per 1000 inhabitants. Index year 2002=100

Year	Halland County			Sweden
Year	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.
2002	100	100	100	100	100	100
2003	89	98	97	98	97	97
2004	111	107	108	112	108	111
2005	136	114	119	123	114	115
2006	136	110	119	127	111	115
2007	169	144	163	148	137	147
2008	158	131	151	150	136	147
2009	173	138	160	159	137	151
2010	221	163	195	181	160	176
2011	218	177	207	185	166	186
2012	218	155	191	173	156	174
2013	217	180	190	189	171	174
2014	239	192	205	197	177	180
2015	211	188	194	188	173	175
2016	210	186	193	180	173	172
2017	207	191	197	173	170	171
2018	188	161	171	170	161	164
2019	213	170	182	170	159	160
2020	224	187	199	184	174	177
2021	221	199	214	197	181	188
2022	201	184	193	175	171	173
Source: Growth Analysis