Self-employed persons by main difficulty as self-employed, sex and professional status
methods, notes and classification
- Reason
- 0 Total
- 1 Lack of influence on price setting
- 2 Lack of access to financing
- 3 High administrative burden
- 4 Periods of financial hardship
- 5 Periods of having no customer, no assignments or project to work on
- 6 No difficulties
- 7 Lack of income in case of sickness/illness
- 8 Delayed payments or non-payments
- 9 Other
- a No response
- Activity and employment status
- 0 Self-employed persons
- 1 Self-employed persons with employees (employers)
- 2 Self-employed persons without employees (own-account workers)
- 3 Independent self-employed without employees (own-account workers)
- 4 Dependent self-employed without employees (own-account workers)
- 5 Self-employed without employees (own-account workers), dependency not known
- Sex
- Unit of measure
- Geopolitical entity (reporting)
- 0 European Union - 27 countries (from 2020)
- 1 European Union - 28 countries (2013-2020)
- 2 Euro area - 19 countries (from 2015)
- 3 Belgium
- 4 Bulgaria
- 5 Czechia
- 6 Denmark
- 7 Germany (until 1990 former territory of the FRG)
- 8 Estonia
- 9 Ireland
- a Greece
- b Spain
- c France
- d Croatia
- e Italy
- f Cyprus
- g Latvia
- h Lithuania
- i Luxembourg
- j Hungary
- k Malta
- l Netherlands
- m Austria
- n Poland
- o Portugal
- p Romania
- q Slovenia
- r Slovakia
- s Finland
- t Sweden
- u Iceland
- v Norway
- w Switzerland
- x United Kingdom
- y Turkey
Variables