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Using Business Registers to Conduct a Regional Analysis of Enterprise Demography and Employment in the Tourism Industries: Learning from the Irish Experience

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  • Steve MacFeely

    (Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, Ireland, and Centre for Policy Studies, University College Cork, Ireland)

  • Jillian Delaney

    (Central Statistics Office, Cork, Ireland)

  • Fiachra O'Donoghue

    (Central Statistics Office, Cork, Ireland)

Abstract

Business registers are the foundation upon which all business statistics are compiled. In addition to providing sampling and weighting frames, they are a rich source of information on national and regional economic and industrial structures. The comprehensive coverage of business registers is of particular relevance in the context of tourism, which is a fragmented sector dispersed across a variety of industries. This paper presents a profile of enterprise demography and employment for the tourism industries in Ireland at county level, which corresponds with level 4 of the European Union spatial classification ‘NUTS’. New metrics, entitled ‘Tourism Dependency Ratios’ are derived and mapped. These ratios illustrate how the tourism supply side can be analysed and understood from a spatial perspective. A full-time equivalent (FTE) estimate of employment in the tourism industries is also provided; this is especially important, as it provides a more stable and comparable measure of employment over time.

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  • Steve MacFeely & Jillian Delaney & Fiachra O'Donoghue, 2013. "Using Business Registers to Conduct a Regional Analysis of Enterprise Demography and Employment in the Tourism Industries: Learning from the Irish Experience," Tourism Economics, , vol. 19(6), pages 1293-1316, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:19:y:2013:i:6:p:1293-1316
    DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0242
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