Sweden follows the definition of an environmental establishment given by OECD/Eurostat in their manual for data collection from 1999 (From The Environmental goods & services industry – manual for data collection and analysis, 1999). The manual describes which environmental areas the establishments are to be classified according to. Eurostat plans to release an updated manual during 2009 and Statistics Sweden have been active in the writing of this. One change in the new manual, compared to the one from 1999, is that the environmental area “Drinking water” (NACE code 41 in its 2002 version) is removed. The current statistics is already taking this into account.
Number of establishments, turnover, export and employed
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Establishments
12 436
12 505
13 336
13 495
13 929
Turnover (million SEK)
165 393
169 381
188 093
215 476
233 902
Export (million SEK)
25 705
28 553
32 920
40 245
42 160
Employed, total
62 951
67 879
70 035
73 171
*
Women
14 417
15 554
16 266
17 785
*
Men
48 534
52 326
53 769
55 386
*
* Data on employment for 2007 is unavailable due to time lag in statistics
Source: SCB
Comments
Recent change in how statistics of the environmental sector is presented
We have earlier presented the statistics broken up on primary and secondary environmental establishments. New for this year is that the statistics is now presented in total values. During 2008 we have included information of environmental share for all the secondary establishments in the environmental sector population, indicating how much of the establishment that has an environmental activity.
Revision of time-series
In earlier years it has been difficult to interpret the differences between the years, since we continuously include new establishments in the database and therefore improve the quality. As a result of this we have not been able to explain a trend as merely an actual increase, since it just as well could depend on the improved quality in the database. However, this year we have revised the time-series back to 2003. We have created a new time-series from 2003 to 2007, making the years comparable to each other.
Definitions
Definition environmental sector Statistics Sweden has followed the definition of an environmental establishment given by OECD/Eurostat in their manual for data collection from 1999: (From The Environmental goods & services industry – manual for data collection and analysis, 1999)
"The environmental goods and services industry consists of activities which produce goods and services to measure, prevent, limit, minimise or correct environmental damage to water, air, and soil as well as problems related to waste, noise and eco-systems. This includes cleaner technologies, products and services which reduce environmental risk and minimise pollution and resource use."
Methodology behind environmental sector statistics
Since 2000 Statistics Sweden has developed a database consisting of establishments active in the environmental sector. The population is based on establishments and there were around 14 000 establishments in the population of 2007. A company can be made up of one or many establishments. In the database each establishment is classified according to its environmental area as well as based on if its environmental activity is primary or secondary in relation to the total activity of the establishment. If the environmental activity is assumed to be over 50 percent it is classified as primary. For establishments with only secondary activity, that is under 50 per cent, only its respectively environmental share of employment, turnover and export is included in the total result. 60 per cent of the establishments in 2007 were classified as primary and 40 per cent as secondary.
There are environmental establishments in most of the industries (NACE). Information of each establishment’s NACE code is found in The Business Database at Statistics Sweden. More information about the Business Database: http://www.scb.se/templates/Standard____180453.asp. A selection of NACE’s are included in its entity and these are NACE 25.12, 37, 51.57 and 90. (NACE Rev 1.1 SNI 2002 codes, not the new NACE Rev 2 SNI 2007). In order to locate establishments outside of these NACE codes a number of sources are used, for example the Energy statistics at Statistics Sweden, different industry organisations and Eniro web search.
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