Enterprises

Financial activities

The Luxembourg financial centre is an international financial centre. As such, it has a key place in the economy of Luxembourg. The pillars of today's financial sector are the interbank market, private banking, the administration and distribution of investment funds and the different supporting activities. More recently, insurance (especially life insurance under the free provision of services regime) and reinsurance (reinsurance captives) activities have, in turn, been growing.

Agriculture and forestry

The relative importance of agriculture in the Luxembourg is still decreasing. Small farms have given way to farms of 50 hectares and over, which represent more than half of the active farms. The farms are concentrated in the North and also the East of the country which is, with the banks of the Moselle, an important wine-growing region. More than 50% of the active farms specialise in the breeding of herbivores.

This part contains data on agriculture itself, wine-growing, forestry, hunting and fishing. 

Handicraft

Craft trades, which do not appear as such in the nomenclature of economic activities (NACE), are represented in the Enterprises Data by a set of data on the activity of the Chamber of Trade and its members.

Trade

This section contains statistics on the branches of trade and repair, which include:

• trade and repair of motor vehicles
• wholesale trade and trade intermediaries
• retail trade and repair of household items.

Also included in this section are various short-term statistics provided for in (EC) Regulation No. 1165/98 on short-term statistics.

International trade

International trade statistics provide information regarding the exchange of goods – by product and by country. This information is collected through the Intrastat declaration (intra-EU trade in goods) and through the customs documents (extra-EU trade in goods).

Construction and dwelling

This part brings together the statistics on the labour and civil engineering branches and also on the roofing, technical installation and finishing trades. In addition to the economic statistics on the activity and the construction prices, this chapter contains information on the structure of the sector, the building permits and the completed buildings as well as the mortgages granted.

Demography and structural business statistics

This sub-theme contains "multi-branch" information which covers, the demography of Luxembourg businesses (authorisations, creations, bankruptcies, local units, etc.). It also provides summary tables on the number of businesses, the turnover, employment per branch and labour costs. 

Industry

Despite efforts to diversify the industrial fabric, the sector is losing importance to the detriment of the tertiary sector. This part contains economic and structural statistics on industry and also some data on external relations (imports and exports), the volume of production and consumption, employment and prices.

Science and technology

Information and communication technologies (ITC) are having a growing economic and social impact. The political decision-makers are trying to create the necessary conditions for the new technologies to be quickly integrated into daily social and economic life. As a result, there is a need for statistics over a wide range of topics specific to the information society.

Since 2002, regular surveys have been carried out to collect data relating to the human and financial R&D resources at businesses with less than 10 employees from the main sectors considered to be active in R&D. A second set of surveys considers public bodies with research activities, organisations with research activities mainly funded by the public authorities and also higher education bodies stating that they carry out research activities.

The Community innovation survey (CIS) represents the main source of data on innovation. Its purpose is to provide comparable data across the Community.

Tourism

The data available in this section contains statistics on the supply and activity of the Luxembourg tourist accommodation sector. This section includes data on tourist accommodation capacities (number of establishments and daily capacities) and the volume of local tourism (in terms of arrivals and overnight stays).

Transport

The data provided by this section come from both the STATEC surveys and the centralised information provided by the different operators in the branch. It includes figures on the activity and the infrastructures of national railway company, the airport and the river ports, road transportation of people and goods (road network, number of vehicles, traffic).

Other non-financial services