Energy use in manufacturing sector - data sources and data collection

7th Oslo Group meeting, Helsinki 23.-26.10.2011

Merja Eskelinen

The statistics on energy use in manufacturing describe the use of energy in manufacturing by energy

source, industry and regionFuel classification (Statistics Finland)Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2008 (~ EU / NACE)

B – Mining and quarryingC – Manufacturing

Region / NUTS3 (Eurostat) disseminated annually: October

frame and sample: January – Februarydata collection: March – September

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Data sources Register of Enterprises and Establishments / Statistics Finland

sampling frame (~ 35 000), basic data Annual inquiry (~ 2 100 / 3 000) / Statistics Finland

volume / energy content of used fuels and electricitypurchaged / received and sold / delivered electricity and heat

The Compliance Monitoring Data System − VAHTI / environmental administration: environmental permits (~ 300)

The Energy Market Authority: emissions trading data (~ 100) The Finnish Energy Industries: electricity consumption of

main grid enterprises / establishments (~ 200) The Finnish Forest Research Institute: wood fuels Statistics Finland: Statistics on production of electricity and heat

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Sample characteristics of the inquiry (1) Strata according to the significance of their energy use

Significant energy users (~ 900): all establishmentsenterprises employing >= 500 personsemissions trade, environmental permit, main gridusers of rare fuels

Medium-size energy users (~ 1200)enterprises employing >=10 personsindustry category and region

Small energy users (~ 700)enterprises employing < 10 personsindustry category and region 2007 and 2011

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Sample characteristics of the inquiry (2)

reporting unit: establishment of the enterprise stratified random sampling sizes of the strata are determined by Neyman’s allocation

turnover of the establishmentslarge variation of turnover → more establishments

Horwitz-Thompson estimatorraising by stratum: establishments in the frame /

establishments in the sample having responded to the inquiry

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Collection method Internet-based questionnaire

user IDs and passwords send by postquestionnaire can be printed out and returned in paper formtwo remindersresponse rate around 80 − 85%

register data administrative data data collected by partners in cooperation statistical data

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Cooperation & organization (1) cooperation in Statistics Finland

Data Collection and Preparation area in Business Structures unit as from 1.1.2012

IT and Statistical Methods / Statistical Information SystemsBusiness Structures / Greenhouse Gas InventoryEnergy statistics team / Statistics on production of

electricity and heatBusiness Trends / Enterprise Register

cooperation with other data collectorsThe Finnish Energy Industries

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Cooperation & organization (2)

specialized data collection unit in Statistics Finland as from 1.1.2013

renewal of statistical information system of business statistics as from 1.1.2014

Register of Enterprises and Establishments implementation of new version of electronic data collection

system

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