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STATISTICAL BUSINESS REGISTERS AS BACKBONE FOR BUSINESS STATISTICS
Joint UNECE/OECD/EurostatBusiness Registers expert meeting
14-15 September 2011,OECD, Paris, France
Clemens SchröterEurostat
Business Registers as guardians of statistical units
Recommandations: Statistical business registers shall become the place in the
NSI where the statistical units are maintained and produced for all business related statistics.
Statistical compilers shall only refer to those units which are maintained in the statistical business registers.
Statistical compilers shall apply the units in the register without any further modifications.
The Enterprise: the core statistical unit in the business register
High quality data on 'enterprise groups‘ in the business registers are essential
Include ‘profiled’ units Exchange micro register data with other countries (e.g. EGR) Ensure that the enterprise units is accepted by statistical
compilers and the collection of statistical data is ensured accordingly
Liaise with national accounts in order to keep the 'enterprise unit' and 'institutional unit' for the corporate sector identical
The global worldwide structures of enterprise groups have an impact on deriving national 'autonomous' enterprise units from the observable legal units.
Recommendations
The local kind of activity unit and the business register ?
Is it an observable – identifiable and/or reporting unit? Is it a meaningful unit (a centre of cost, not a centre of
profit)?
The SNA and the ESA request to partitioning enterprise units into more homogenous units as regards their activity and their geographic location
Practice:Derived from ‘Local Unit’ surveys or ‘Enterprise’ surveys
Recommendation:The 'local kind of activity' breakdowns of the enterprise units should be recorded and maintained in the Business Registers
The Business Register as a vehicle to support the statistical production process
For the preparation of surveys: all business survey populations are drawn from the same register, so their population frames are complete and consistent.
For the coordination of surveys: survey coordination should be strengthened in NSIs and the reference database should be the business register.
For the summing-up of survey results: statistical business registers should allow to complementing/ weighting survey results in order to avoid biased results
Business Registers should contain
Up-to date information on units and their characteristics - including time stamps and source code: Live Register
Population frames on statistical units - for particular reference periods used by several statistical compilers
From initial to final population frame
November November
February May August
Active in initial frame
Overcoverage
Undercoverage
Client oriented data quality management
Ongoing review of user requirements Close relations with any surveys coordination units Helpdesk for statistical compilers
Tools for users: Service to identify units in the Business Register Interface allowing to consult and propose updates in the
business register Interface which interacts with the business register for
designing, coordinating and the summing up of surveys
Access / exchange of business register data
1. Exchange with other national statistical authorities
Recommendation: No limitations
2. Exchange with foreign statistical authorities
Recommendation: Establish common confidentiality regime by binding agreements (e.g. EGR)
3. Access to non statistical users
Recommendation: Manage the register in the NSI in such a way that that there is an administrative register domain (exchange possible) and a statistical domain (exchange not possible)
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