Using Appendix B
This is taken from the Review of Statistical Methodology used in producing Small Business Benchmarks. It was undertaken by David Heath, Director of Cumpston Sarjeant Pty Ltd and Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and delivered to us on 30th September 2013.
2011
Industry Group | Number after outliers excluded | Number before outliers excluded | Proportion excluded |
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Total | 334,662 | 397,540 | 16% |
Air conditioning, refrigeration and heating services | 3,771 | 4,578 | 18% |
Alarm installation services | 1,576 | 1,926 | 18% |
Architectural services | 7,226 | 8,052 | 10% |
Automotive electrical services | 1,994 | 2,342 | 15% |
Bakeries and hot bread shops | 2,476 | 3,000 | 17% |
Barber and men's hairdressing | 650 | 696 | 7% |
Beauty services | 2,984 | 3,810 | 22% |
Blocklaying services | 548 | 621 | 12% |
Book retailing | 644 | 926 | 30% |
Bottle shops and liquor retailing | 760 | 1,089 | 30% |
Bricklaying services | 8,725 | 9,244 | 6% |
Cabinet makers | 5,429 | 6,676 | 19% |
Cake shops and patisseries | 468 | 601 | 22% |
Carpentry services | 30,396 | 32,190 | 6% |
Carpet laying services | 3,694 | 4,059 | 9% |
Catering services | 1,454 | 1,899 | 23% |
Cement rendering | 820 | 908 | 10% |
Chicken shops | 395 | 515 | 23% |
Child care services | 3,988 | 4,516 | 12% |
Chiropractic and osteopathic services | 2,686 | 2,953 | 9% |
Cleaning services - building and other industrial | 14,180 | 15,179 | 7% |
Cleaning services - carpet, rug and furniture upholstery | 913 | 999 | 9% |
Clothing retailing | 3,594 | 5,381 | 33% |
Coffee shops | 4,006 | 5,854 | 32% |
Computer retailing | 1,643 | 2,235 | 26% |
Concreting services | 7,981 | 8,916 | 10% |
Confectionery retailing | 255 | 358 | 29% |
Courier services | 8,403 | 9,583 | 12% |
Craft shops | 405 | 621 | 35% |
Delicatessen | 684 | 870 | 21% |
Delivery services | 2,545 | 2,909 | 13% |
Dental specialists | 577 | 634 | 9% |
Dental surgeons | 5,325 | 6,027 | 12% |
Discount and variety stores | 339 | 430 | 21% |
Domestic appliance repair and maintenance | 1,687 | 1,917 | 12% |
Driving schools and instructors | 1,506 | 1,710 | 12% |
Electrical and electronic product retailing | 1,560 | 2,173 | 28% |
Electrical services | 16,317 | 18,914 | 14% |
Entertainment media retailing | 356 | 550 | 35% |
Fence construction | 2,456 | 2,962 | 17% |
Fish and chips shops | 791 | 945 | 16% |
Fish and seafood retailing | 518 | 668 | 22% |
Floor covering retailing | 1,341 | 1,752 | 23% |
Florists | 1,069 | 1,482 | 28% |
Footwear retailing | 684 | 962 | 29% |
Fruit and vegetable retailing | 1,354 | 1,756 | 23% |
Fuel retailing | 1,388 | 1,907 | 27% |
Furniture removalists | 692 | 870 | 20% |
Furniture retailing | 1,450 | 2,140 | 32% |
Garden supplies retailing | 1,457 | 2,080 | 30% |
Gift stores | 1,006 | 1,453 | 31% |
Glazing services | 1,789 | 2,068 | 13% |
Grocery retailing and convenience stores | 3,486 | 4,426 | 21% |
Hairdressers | 9,378 | 11,121 | 16% |
Hardware and building supplies retailing | 1,770 | 2,417 | 27% |
Health and fitness centres | 2,314 | 3,016 | 23% |
Health food retailing | 445 | 629 | 29% |
Homewares retailing | 622 | 908 | 31% |
Ice cream retailing | 302 | 470 | 36% |
Kebab shops | 198 | 249 | 20% |
Landscape construction | 5,554 | 6,413 | 13% |
Laundry and dry-cleaning services | 1,279 | 1,615 | 21% |
Lawn mower retailing | 340 | 412 | 17% |
Lawn mowing and garden services | 8,698 | 9,472 | 8% |
Machinery and equipment repairs and maintenance | 1,417 | 1,642 | 14% |
Manchester and other textile goods retailing | 1,025 | 1,446 | 29% |
Meat and poultry retailing | 2,172 | 2,643 | 18% |
Motor vehicle parts and batteries retailing | 644 | 856 | 25% |
Motor vehicle retail | 1,678 | 2,617 | 36% |
Musical instruments retail | 292 | 416 | 30% |
Newsagents | 2,017 | 2,705 | 25% |
Painting services | 16,728 | 17,791 | 6% |
Panel beating and smash repairs | 5,171 | 6,335 | 18% |
Pest control services | 1,728 | 1,908 | 9% |
Pets and pet supply retailing | 550 | 818 | 33% |
Pharmacy | 2,680 | 3,096 | 13% |
Physiotherapy services | 3,216 | 3,467 | 7% |
Picture framing retailing | 474 | 563 | 16% |
Pizza shops | 851 | 1,116 | 24% |
Plastering and ceiling services | 10,567 | 11,114 | 5% |
Plumbing services | 14,637 | 16,782 | 13% |
Printing | 2,333 | 3,140 | 26% |
Printing support services | 1,230 | 1,671 | 26% |
Pubs, taverns and bars | 2,035 | 3,437 | 41% |
Restaurants | 7,204 | 10,216 | 29% |
Road freight transport services | 22,647 | 29,270 | 23% |
Roofing services, including roof tiling, guttering and metal roofing | 4,410 | 4,876 | 10% |
Sports and physical recreation instruction | 2,755 | 3,271 | 16% |
Sports, camping and fishing retailing | 1,888 | 2,638 | 28% |
Stationery goods retailing | 473 | 633 | 25% |
Takeaway food services | 5,047 | 6,696 | 25% |
Tiling services | 5,474 | 5,920 | 8% |
Timber floor sanding | 804 | 873 | 8% |
Tobacco retailing | 386 | 461 | 16% |
Towing services | 575 | 744 | 23% |
Toy and game retailing | 491 | 744 | 34% |
Tutoring and coaching | 2,939 | 3,481 | 16% |
Tyre retailing | 1,080 | 1,367 | 21% |
Veterinary services | 1,728 | 2,014 | 14% |
Video and other electronic media rental and hiring | 627 | 964 | 35% |
Watch and jewellery retailing | 1,348 | 1,755 | 23% |
2010
Industry Group | Number after outliers excluded | Number before outliers excluded | Proportion excluded |
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Total | 340,727 | 403,236 | 16% |
Air conditioning, refrigeration and heating services | 3,868 | 4,714 | 18% |
Alarm installation services | 1,613 | 1,918 | 16% |
Architectural services | 7,095 | 7,963 | 11% |
Automotive electrical services | 1,926 | 2,289 | 16% |
Bakeries and hot bread shops | 2,453 | 2,962 | 17% |
Barber and men's hairdressing | 620 | 666 | 7% |
Beauty services | 2,972 | 3,754 | 21% |
Blocklaying services | 537 | 587 | 9% |
Book retailing | 606 | 913 | 34% |
Bottle shops and liquor retailing | 782 | 1,161 | 33% |
Bricklaying services | 8,620 | 9,078 | 5% |
Cabinet makers | 5,289 | 6,445 | 18% |
Cake shops and patisseries | 446 | 585 | 24% |
Carpentry services | 31,484 | 33,314 | 5% |
Carpet laying services | 4,142 | 4,500 | 8% |
Catering services | 1,562 | 2,012 | 22% |
Cement rendering | 810 | 888 | 9% |
Chicken shops | 371 | 476 | 22% |
Child care services | 4,555 | 5,103 | 11% |
Chiropractic and osteopathic services | 2,775 | 3,076 | 10% |
Cleaning services - building and other industrial | 14,773 | 15,764 | 6% |
Cleaning services - carpet, rug and furniture upholstery | 846 | 943 | 10% |
Clothing retailing | 3,641 | 5,541 | 34% |
Coffee shops | 3,738 | 5,321 | 30% |
Computer retailing | 1,667 | 2,216 | 25% |
Concreting services | 7,975 | 8,880 | 10% |
Confectionery retailing | 224 | 335 | 33% |
Courier services | 8,626 | 9,926 | 13% |
Craft shops | 337 | 533 | 37% |
Delicatessen | 609 | 777 | 22% |
Delivery services | 2,236 | 2,568 | 13% |
Dental specialists | 558 | 632 | 12% |
Dental surgeons | 5,577 | 6,400 | 13% |
Discount and variety stores | 330 | 436 | 24% |
Domestic appliance repair and maintenance | 1,589 | 1,829 | 13% |
Driving schools and instructors | 1,496 | 1,671 | 10% |
Electrical and electronic product retailing | 1,610 | 2,252 | 29% |
Electrical services | 16,952 | 19,536 | 13% |
Entertainment media retailing | 340 | 497 | 32% |
Fence construction | 2,360 | 2,813 | 16% |
Fish and chips shops | 752 | 880 | 15% |
Fish and seafood retailing | 499 | 635 | 21% |
Floor covering retailing | 1,359 | 1,782 | 24% |
Florists | 1,079 | 1,432 | 25% |
Footwear retailing | 695 | 975 | 29% |
Fruit and vegetable retailing | 1,343 | 1,731 | 22% |
Fuel retailing | 1,349 | 1,859 | 27% |
Furniture removalists | 683 | 827 | 17% |
Furniture retailing | 1,439 | 2,133 | 33% |
Garden supplies retailing | 1,347 | 1,984 | 32% |
Gift stores | 908 | 1,341 | 32% |
Glazing services | 1,758 | 2,038 | 14% |
Grocery retailing and convenience stores | 3,398 | 4,352 | 22% |
Hairdressers | 10,007 | 11,808 | 15% |
Hardware and building supplies retailing | 1,727 | 2,378 | 27% |
Health and fitness centres | 2,687 | 3,468 | 23% |
Health food retailing | 408 | 580 | 30% |
Homewares retailing | 674 | 994 | 32% |
Ice cream retailing | 263 | 417 | 37% |
Kebab shops | 198 | 240 | 18% |
Landscape construction | 5,836 | 6,728 | 13% |
Laundry and dry-cleaning services | 1,271 | 1,599 | 21% |
Lawn mower retailing | 341 | 400 | 15% |
Lawn mowing and garden services | 9,256 | 10,089 | 8% |
Machinery and equipment repairs and maintenance | 1,678 | 1,935 | 13% |
Manchester and other textile goods retailing | 1,009 | 1,403 | 28% |
Meat and poultry retailing | 2,097 | 2,563 | 18% |
Motor vehicle parts and batteries retailing | 706 | 959 | 26% |
Motor vehicle retail | 1,617 | 2,561 | 37% |
Musical instruments retail | 292 | 403 | 28% |
Newsagents | 1,925 | 2,601 | 26% |
Painting services | 17,086 | 18,115 | 6% |
Panel beating and smash repairs | 5,156 | 6,229 | 17% |
Pest control services | 1,759 | 1,969 | 11% |
Pets and pet supply retailing | 578 | 840 | 31% |
Pharmacy | 2,604 | 3,145 | 17% |
Physiotherapy services | 3,417 | 3,703 | 8% |
Picture framing retailing | 440 | 531 | 17% |
Pizza shops | 766 | 973 | 21% |
Plastering and ceiling services | 10,661 | 11,140 | 4% |
Plumbing services | 15,034 | 17,122 | 12% |
Printing | 2,298 | 3,070 | 25% |
Printing support services | 1,210 | 1,642 | 26% |
Pubs, taverns and bars | 2,083 | 3,364 | 38% |
Restaurants | 7,855 | 11,005 | 29% |
Road freight transport services | 22,795 | 29,125 | 22% |
Roofing services, including roof tiling, guttering and metal roofing | 4,425 | 4,870 | 9% |
Sports and physical recreation instruction | 2,614 | 3,055 | 14% |
Sports, camping and fishing retailing | 1,895 | 2,717 | 30% |
Stationery goods retailing | 459 | 649 | 29% |
Takeaway food services | 5,518 | 7,203 | 23% |
Tiling services | 5,272 | 5,669 | 7% |
Timber floor sanding | 806 | 878 | 8% |
Tobacco retailing | 386 | 471 | 18% |
Towing services | 598 | 748 | 20% |
Toy and game retailing | 496 | 788 | 37% |
Tutoring and coaching | 3,243 | 3,824 | 15% |
Tyre retailing | 1,119 | 1,418 | 21% |
Veterinary services | 1,720 | 2,060 | 17% |
Video and other electronic media rental and hiring | 547 | 846 | 35% |
Watch and jewellery retailing | 1,276 | 1,698 | 25% |