RAPID REPORTS eurostat Energy and industry 1993 D 1 ISSN 10160191 Presentation of the publication "Structure and Activity of Industry: data by size of enterprises 1987/1988/1989" This publication contains data ac Midway through the 1970s, however, this or share in total valueadded achieved cording to size of enterprises with 20 trend was reversed ¡n the majority of west (Figures 2a and 2b, 3a and 3b, 4a and 4b). or more persons employed in the in ern economies, with small industrial local dustry and building and civil engin units increasing in number. This phenomeeering sectors, taken from the inquiry non was particularly marked in the United Figure 2a on the structure and activity of indus Kingdom and the United States (Figure 1). try (series D). The data which figure Percentage of small enterprises, 197988 Figure 1 Construction. Within cover the years 198789 and relate to five variables: the number of Share of employment of smell local units (fewer than 100 persons employed), NACE 14 enterprises (V01), the number of persons employed (V05), labour costs (V18), turnover (V24), and valueadded (V73). This document summarizes the analysis which accompanies the data in the publication and describes the principal trends in the structure of enterprises by size throughout the eighties. nro M76 leso MÍ ISSO On the basis of the number of persons Percentage of amali enterprlaea, 197988 employed, the enterprises are broken Industry.