New release from ABS on characteristics of small business 2011-12

Another major release on small business stats from the ABS - Cat.8167.0

http://bit.ly/1h6ZPIZ

 It covers a large range of characteristics which deserve our attention, including:

• Business Structure and Arrangements
• Business Markets and Competition
• Business Finance
• Business Use of Information Technology
• Business Innovation
• Business Performance
• Barriers to Innovation and General Business Activities or Performance
• Skills

Datacubes are available for download if you wish to do some analysis.

When the word productivity appears in nearly every discussion on business development, there is one key message that ABS wishes you to know:

Businesses that pursued innovation were more than twice as likely to have improved their productivity than those that didn't.

Business use of technology - new ABS data released today

One of the drivers to business growth is of course to do with the use of technology in various manners. ABS has just released its latest results for 2011-12.

Small businesses, in particular micro-businesses, continue to lag behind compared with medium and large enterprises in their use of technology to drive growth and productivity.

Further info are available here.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/8129.02011-12?OpenDocument