1. Regarding the age and number of employees of businesses in Ballarat. a. Can you provide an overall summary of the age of businesses? b. Can you also provide a summary on the number of people that these businesses employ? c. There are 5,750 registered businesses in the Ballarat region. Please provide an estimate of the total number of employees for all registered businesses combined. 2. Does the age of a business appear to have any effect on the number of people employed? 3. We know that the current economic climate is not favourable and so we are very interested to learn if this is reflected in the attitudes of local businesses. a. Can you please summarise the level of confidence in the local region's business environment for the next financial year? b. Further, can you please summarise whether or not businesses have a growth strategy? 4. Is there any evidence of a relationship between confidence in the local region's business environment for the next financial year and having a growth strategy? 5. Lastly, we are interested to see if: a. The amount spent on training per person each year is affected by the number of employees in the business. b. The amount a manager earns is affected by the manager's age.