The survey considers the firms with at least five employees. The survey is managed on a sample of 4000 enterprises, stratified by the economic sectors concerning the two-digit sectors of ATECO 2007 (corresponds to NACE rev.2) (from 10 to 33) and for the three-digit sectors belonging to the two-digit sectors 10, 13, 20, 25, 26, 27, 30, 32, for four geographical areas (North-west, North-east, Centre, South and Islands) and for five sizes (5-9 employees, 10-49 employees, 50-249 employees, 250-999 employees and 1000 employees and more).
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