In July, we lost 800 self-employed every day, the biggest drop since 200933 self-employed died on-the-job accident in the first half of the añoATA calls for facilitating access to a pension of self-employed workers in arrears with Social Security

the 3.287.449 self-employed who had been in Spain to June 30, 2.014.464 are self-employed natural person (61,3%), that is to say, six out of every ten. On the other hand, 38.7% of the self-employed are discharged with some type of society, that is to say, 1.272.985 people, according to data from ATA, the National Federation of Associations of Self-employed Workers.

During the first six months of the year, the data published by the Ministry of Labour, Migration and Social Security show an increase in both the self-employed natural person as well as societies. Thus, the self-employed as a physical person, increased during the first half of the year, a 1% (+20.562 entrepreneurs); on the other hand, the number of self-employed registered in the CHALLENGE with some type of legal form has increased by a similar percentage, namely a +1.1% in the first half, which in absolute terms resulted in 13.848 autonomous corporate entities more than at the start of the year.

it is Worth noting that of the two million self-employed natural person, one out of every five have at least one worker in your office , that is to say, 22%.

In these early months, in addition, have grown the self-employed that generate employment. The self-employed natural person employers have increased by 2.8% (+12.181 self-employed employers) in the first six months of 2019, a growth rate four times higher than that of the self-employed who do not have workers in their charge, which have increased only 0.5%.

Also, have increased the workers hired by the self-employed. As at 30 June, the group of self-employed with higher growth is the group with more than five workers in their charge, which increased throughout the semester by 8.8%, until the 49.234 self-employed.

it should Be noted that all the analysed segments amounted to self-employed during the first half of the year. In Spain there are 839.352 autonomous corporate employers according to the Labour Ministry. That is to say, 65.9% of the self-employed and corporate entities have at least one worker. In total, 39.1% of the self-employed are workers in their charge.

For the size business

by Looking at the size of business, 30.3% of the self-employed is between 1 and 5 workers (996.075 self-employed employers). If we add self-employed plus those that are up to five workers, we can say that 90% of the business fabric in Spain have from zero to five workers.

According to the latest report of ATA, the increase of the self-employed that in the first half of 2019 has recorded the CHALLENGES, 51.7% were female compared to 48.3 per cent of men. Leaving the group with 35.5% of women autónomaas, compared to 64.5% of males self-employed. This rate varies two-tenths compared to December, when women represented 34.3 per cent.

in Addition, during the first six months of 2019 increased for both males as well as women physical person, even though they are the ones that registered the greatest entrepreneurial drive to grow 1.5%, over the first half versus the 0.8% recorded by boys. That is to say, the increase registered by the entrepreneurs was twice that of men who have decided to set up on your own and launch your business idea.

27.5% are more than 55 years

Putting the spotlight on the age, almost one in two are aged between 40 and 54 years. And 27.2% have more than 55 years, the percentage is slightly higher than 26.8% recorded in December 2018. So, more than seven out of every ten self-employed (72.9%) of the self-employed person paying Social Security contributions in June were more than 40 years. By contrast, only 2% of the self-employed have less than 25 years.

however, in this first semester, according to ATA, all age groups have joined the self-employed, being of the age of 55 years that percentage has grown in the period analyzed, namely 2.4%.

According to the years that the self-employed carry the front of their business, it is noteworthy that, more and more workers own-account manage to consolidate their business and move forward.

It has reduced the mortality of the activities of the self-employed because, two out of every three, specifically, 66.1% of them have more than three years old, and more than 54% had spent more than five years on the front of your business. Only 16.3% of the self-employed have less than a year old as own account worker.

The only group that has gone down, according to ATA, in the first half of the year is the one that carries discharged between six and eleven months, given that many have managed to consolidate and have gone on to be the group that leads because of high activity between one and three years, which has increased by 7.3%.

contribution Bases

In terms of the contribution base, 85.6% of the self-employed person is listed for the minimum base , a percentage that is slightly lower than the 86% of December of 2018. In front of this percentage, only 0.7% of the total number of self-employed has a contribution base stood at more than three times the minimum base. As well, there are 14.4% of the self-employed person you have decided to quote for a base higher than the minimum set by Social Security.

Únicamene 6.3% of the self-employed person simultaneous activity by another for the account of others, a collective which has increased by 4.8% during the first half of 2019, a growth that leads to an important ascending line, as the self-employed that are dedicated exclusively to your self-employed activity have increased over 2019 0.8%.

In terms of the self-employed who are registered as self-employed contributor, that is to say, a family member of the self-employed owner who lives and works with him (it may be your spouse or a relative up to the second degree of consanguinity) have also increased in the first half of 2019, going from 193.999 self-employed registered as a partner family to the 198.797 to June 30.

as to the nationality, continues to increase gradually the number of those self-employed who were born outside of Spain and give and high in CHALLENGE, reaching 11.2% of the total number of self-employed. The growth rate is 7.6%, compared to 0.3% of self-employed persons of Spanish nationality in the first half of the year.

For areas of activity, trade, agriculture and construction concentrated in the 44,5% of the total number of self-employed natural person. On the other hand, the real estate activities is chosen by only 1.1 per cent of the self-employed, 2% in communication, 2.1% financial activities 2.6 to the artistic activities and entertainment, and 3.1% to the education sector.

Date Of Update: 19 August 2019, 20:39