Small business in Western Australia at a glance
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Notes on statistics
- Statistics as of 30 June 2021.
- Value of small business to the economy statistic as of 30 June 2020.
- In relation to the statistics, the SBDC uses the standard Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) definition of small business, which is any non-employing business or a business employing fewer than 20 people. However, for legal purposes, the definition of a small business is as stated in the Small Business Development Corporation Act 1983.
- As with any analysis based on data sets it is subject to a degree of error. Individual numbers or percentages should not be used as absolutes.
- Statistics include only those businesses actively remitting Goods and Services Tax (GST). As such, small businesses not registered for GST are not captured in this data.
- Notes on value of small business to WA economy:
- Value of small business to WA economy is an estimate using a revised SBDC model based on previous work undertaken by ACIL Allen using ABS data. All figures are in nominal (ie. in 2019-20 dollars).
- Total private sector economic activity excludes financial and insurance services and ownership of dwellings.
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