ECONOICAL NOTE

1. Feminisation rate Population pyramid Jobs of the wage earners Employment in the saddleries In 1999, a questionnaire has been sent to saddlers and equipment’s shops for horses and rider’s. 747 companies have been asked and 133 questionnaires have been analysed (answering rate: 18%). Wage and non-wage earners have been separated and only the labour force who has a work contract has been considered. Students in training and voluntary workers won’t be considered in the study. Characteristics of the enterprises Quantity of wage earners in the saddleries Nearly the half of the enterprise don’t have any wage earner. The job is done by the manager sometimes assisted by his/her spouse. ECONOICAL NOTE 6 wage earners and more 3 to 5 10% wage earners 11% No wage earner 2 wage earners 47% 10% 1 wage earner 22% Distribution of the wage earners in relation with their job 48% of the wage earners are working in the craft industry, ¼ have an administrative job and the others are businessmen (18%) or have a maintenance job (3%). unknown maintenance 6% 3% Craft industry business 48% 18% Administrative 25% Gender of the labour force working in saddleries 100% Globally, there are as many men as women in the wage earners and non-wage earners, but there are slightly more men than women in the non-wage earners. 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Wage earners Non-wage earners men women unknown Observatoire économique et social du cheval (OESC) Haras national du Lion d’Angers Domaine de l’Isle Briand 49 220 Le Lion d ’Angers 02 41 18 22 28  02 41 18 22 78 e-mail : obseco@haras-nationaux.fr Age of the labour force working in saddleries 100% The wage earners are quite young. Indeed, 63% are less than 40. Contrary to that, the non-wage earning manager are older (49% are more than 40). Moreover, we can’t note a relation between gender and age on the different jobs done by the wage earners. 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Wage earners Non-wage earners Less than 25 25 to 40 41 to 55 More than 55 unknown

2. Activities The turnover Synthesis of employment in saddleries in 2001 Work contracts Distribution of the different contracts of the wage earners Nearly 87% of the wage earners have an open-ended contract and 83% have a full time job. We can note that the work contracts in saddleries are in the national average. Indeed, INSEE considers that in 1999 90% of the work contracts are open-ended contracts and 83% are full time job contracts. unknown Open-ended contract 12% Part-time 86,4% job Fixed-term contract 5% Full-time 7,2% job unknown 83% 6,4% 45% of the enterprises are retailers (retail represent more than 75% of the turnover). The others, (38%) don’t have any principal activity if we remove the 11% of manufacturers and the 3% of wholesaler. The “mixed” enterprises have a turnover divided between manufacturing, repairing and retail. Moreover, wholesale and second hand sale can be disregarded. Principal activities of the enterprises (turnover of the activity > 75% turnover total) No principal activity retail 38% 46% wholesale 3% Fabrication repairing 11% 2% The retailers used to have only a no-wage earner manager and occasionally one wage earner. The enterprises who don’t have a principal activity used to have only one person, wage or non-wage earner, depending on the juridical status of the enterprise. The enterprises are fairly distributed around the average of 76 224 euros of turnover. Globally, retail represents the biggest part of the total turnover (55%). Manufacturing represent nearly 25% of the total turnover and repairing only 13%. Wholesale and second hand sale only represent a very small part (1%) of the total turnover. The enterprises with a high turnover have more labour force than the others. Indeed, 75% have wage earners whereas 70% of small enterprises only have a non-wage earning manager. Moreover, the enterprises with a turnover higher than 76 224 euros are employing 73% of the wage earners. Distribution of the saddleries in relation with Their turnover ( x 1000 €) Less than 7,6 to No answer 7,6 15,2 11% 3% 9% 15,2 to More than 152,5 76,2 31% 30% 76,2 to 152,5 16% France : 900 saddleries Per saddlery 3,6 jobs 2,8 wage earners 2 700 jobs 2 100 wage earners Fiche réalisée par : Les Haras nationaux - Direction du développement - Observatoire économique et social du cheval (OESC) -- Octobre 2002 Pour en savoir plus, s’adresser à l’OESC :  02 41 18 22 28.  02 41 18 22 78 . e-mail : obseco@haras-nationaux.fr