Bio-oil-structural characteristics

The half answerers have been packaging oil- not only bio oil- since 1990: 42% began in the following decade and only 8% started hereafter . A much longer tradition is present in the North, followed by the Centre. Except for some cases, who began directly with the bio-oil, this biological culture generally settled on a previous activity, sharing a determined space within the already existing business. The individual enterprises are a half of the repliers while capital enterprises are wide-spread in the North. However the number of associates is generally very limited, rarely overcoming three members. Where bio and traditional cultures co-exist, bio sales don't go over 25% of the total for two-third of the repliers, while it overcomes 50% in 12% of the cases.
On the whole the 140 repliers have 1.708 operators, 62% males and 38% females. Fixed- time workers represent in the whole nation-48% of the total workers followed by unfixed -time workers (26%), by employees and technicians (19%), finally by managers (9%). As the areas are totally different, the situation is obviously different; the number of fixed-time workers drops to 27% in the North, while it reaches 61% in the South and the Isles. On the contrary the number of employees and technicians increases in the North (34%) and decreases in the South (16%) and in the Centre (10%). In the whole nation women are usually employees or technicians (49%), or fixed-time workers (42%), but only 24% of them are unfixed-time workers or 23% are managing operators. This distribution is similar in every district. In the whole country the average occupation reaches 4.12 people per enterprise; a standard deviation of 29.20 due to few large enterprises in the North and the Centre. There is an evident difference among the enter- prises of the 3 areas: in the South and the Isles there is an average number of 3.6 operators for every enterprise, which reach 4.5 in the Centre and even 11.3 in the North. As for the future, 45% predict an increase of employment much more evident in the South and the Isles than in the North, while only 11% see a decrease lightly more evident in the North and the Centre.