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Presentation to 21th Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Case study: Profiling in Statistics South Africa
(Session 3)
Marietha GouwsExecutive Manager: Business Register
24-27 November 2008
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Topics
• Profiling in Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)
• Progress and development the past year
• Problems experienced
• Issues solved
• Future plans
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Profiling in Stats SA
• Identifying Enterprise Groups for investigationCriteria for selection (financial year end, size group 1, large and complex)
Sources (mainly survey area requests and new businesses or structural changes)
• Prepare a Profile Plan
• Collect informationEmail
Telephone
Personal visits
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Profiling in South Africa (continued)
• Analyse InformationFinancial Statements/ Annual Reports
Organogram (company structure)
Interview Outcome Report (summary of findings
collected during an interview)
• Feedback to usersProfile outcome report in centralised storing place
Meetings with Survey Areas
Enterprise (EN) updates on the Business Sampling
Frame (BSF)
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• Expand the Large Business UnitEmploy 13 new staff members on contract
Tailor-made training plan was implemented
• Revise the “profiling” chapter in the Operational
ManualDevelop and implement new forms and procedures
• Revise the units model
• Implement the Profiling Quality Self Assessment
Checklist
Progress and development in the past year
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• New staff require more training and support:
to enable them to update the business information
on the Business Sampling Frame
to be able to conduct interviews independently
• Entry level salaries for permanent profilers is not
attractive
Three staff members left the unit so far
• Stakeholder communication not well managed
Problems experienced
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• Job grading in progress to address the entry level salary levels
• In-dept assessment to determine areas for improvement
• Additional training sessions were conducted in:Financial Statement and Annual Report interpretation
Use of Business Sampling Frame (BSF) and other systems
Case studies on incomplete profiles were presented
• Development of a communication strategy
Mechanisms to address problems
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• Implementation of the revised Units model
• Development of an interface for the profiling
activities per Enterprise Group
• Implement the Communication Strategy
Future plans
