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The following table shows the number of actively trading businesses in these industries in June 2007. These counts exclude entities that had an active Australian Business Number (ABN) but did not have a goods and services tax (GST) role, and businesses with a GST role which had not returned a Business Activity Statement (BAS) for more than five quarters or had returned a BAS reporting zero dollar amounts. These figures are not comparable to Business Register Counts presented prior to the 2008 release of this publication due to this change in scope.

There were 13,110 actively trading businesses classified as being predominantly involved in architectural services, with a further 10,314 involved in advertising services, and 10,128 involved in commercial art and display services. It is not possible to separately identify other design industries.

15.1 COUNTS OF AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSES(a), Selected design industries(b) - June 2007
	Architectural services	Advertising Services	Commercial art and display services
	no.	no.	no.
New South Wales	4 488	4 083	3 750
Victoria	3 513	2 739	2 934
Queensland	2 370	1 878	1 650
South Australia	612	558	717
Western Australia	1 632	738	738
Tasmania	225	147	153
Northern Territory	84	54	45
Australian Capital Territory	186	117	141
Total(c)	13 110	10 314	10 128
(a) After accounting for entries and exits from register.
(b) All businesses registered and active for GST and operating in one state or territory (i.e. it excludes entities with operations in more than one state or territory).
(c) Includes businesses for which state or territory is not recorded.
Source: ABS data available on request, Counts of Australian Businesses, Including Entries and Exits, June 2003 to June 2007.

15.2 COUNT OF AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSES IN SELECTED DESIGN INDUSTRIES(a), By employment size and type(b) - June 2007
		Architectural services	Advertising Services	Commercial art and display services
		no.	no.	no.
Employment size
	1-19 employees	6 435	4 215	3 429
	20-199 employees	240	390	165
	200 employees or more	12	42	6
Type of employer
	Employing	6 687	4 647	3 600
	Non employing	6 423	5 667	6 528
Total		13 110	10 314	10 128
(a) After accounting for entries and exits from the register.
(b) All businesses registered and active for GST purposes in only one state or territory (i.e. it excludes businesses operating in two or more states).
Source: ABS data available on request, Counts of Australian Businesses, Including Entries and Exits, June 2003 to June 2007.