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Central versus Peripheral High-Speed Rail Stations: Opportunities For Companies to Relocate?
The cases of Reims Central Station and Champagne-Ardenne Station

Table 3. Comparison of business sectors in each area and in Reims as a whole
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Clairmarais Bezannes
Business sectors Reims (2012)
(2014) (2015)

Hotels and restaurants 5.76% 16,00% 2.38%

Construction 9.36% 4.00% 0.00%

Financial and insurance activities 6.10% 8.00% 38,10%
Information and communication 2.86% 8.00% 4.76%

Manufacture of electrical, computer and 0.35% 8.00%* 0.00%
electronic equipment; Manufacture of machinery
Manufacture of food products, beverages and 1.69% 4.00%* 0.00%
tobacco products

Manufacture of transport equipment 0.04% 0.00% 0.00%
Mining and quarrying; energy, water supply,
sewerage, waste management and remediation 0.95% 4.00%* 0.00%
activities
Other manufacturing 3.01% 8.00%* 0.00%

Other service activities 7.56% 4.00% 0.00%

Professional, scientific, technical, administrative
and support service activities 15.89% 16,00% 23,81%
Public administration and defence, education,
human health and social work activities 14.97% 8.00% 16.67%
Real estate activities 5.09% 0.00% 2.38%

Total 100% 100% 100%

Transportation and storage 2.72% 4.00% 4.76%

Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor 23,63% 8.00% 7.14%
vehicles and motorcycles

Total 100% 100% 100%

* forms part of the 24% of industry‐related activities. Source: authors’ own work, surveys and INSEE data.

8 For all business sectors and both areas, the null hypothesis H0 (that there is no difference between the distribution) must
be rejected. The calculated p‐value with Fisher’s exact test (0.004) is less than the level of confidence α = 0.05; the alternative
hypothesis H1 (that there is a difference between the distributions) can be accepted.

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