Table 5 Local government-owned enterprises, by organizational structure. Number and per cent. 2006-2011

5 Local government-owned enterprises, by organizational structure. Number and per cent. 2006-2011
Organizational structure	Absolute figures

Organizational structure	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011

General Partnership	8	9	6	6	4	4
Private limited Company/ Public limited Company	2 002	2 060	2 135	2 234	2 265	2 189
Company with limited liability	12	18	12	14	12	12
General Partnership with shared liability	18	30	21	23	22	21
Association/ club/ organisation	8	10	9	10	9	9
Intermunicipal company²	84	95	60	19	17	21
Municipal enterprise/ County authority company²	172	183	130	100	93	91
Limited Partnership	4	4	3	2	2	2
Municipal unit¹	156	159	148	153	147	143
Foundation	30	31	31	31	31	31
Other	1	1	1	5	5	5
Total	2 495	2 600	2 556	2 597	2 607	2 528

	Per cent

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011

General Partnership	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Private limited Company/ Public limited Company	80.2	79.2	83.5	86.0	86.9	86.6
Company with limited liability	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
General Partnership with shared liability	0.7	1.2	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8
Association/ club/ organisation	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4
Intermunicipal company	3.4	3.7	2.3	0.7	0.7	0.8
Municipal enterprise/ County authority company	6.9	7.0	5.1	3.9	3.6	3.6
Limited Partnership	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Municipal unit¹	6.3	6.1	5.8	5.9	5.6	5.7
Foundation	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2
Other	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

¹	Unit organized by municipal act § 11 and § 27.
²	The number of Municipal enterprises, County authority companies and Inter municipal companies decreased significantly from 2008 to 2009. This is as a result of many of these enterprises reclassified from the local government business units to local government management.