Transcript Central Statistical Office of Poland National Bank of

Central Statistical Office of Poland
Electronic reporting in Poland
27th Voorburg Group Meeting
Warsaw, Poland
October 1st to October 5th, 2012
Overview
 Introduction
 Description of the survey
 Population Coverage
 Data collection
 Past practices
 New practices
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Operational efficiencies gained from new practices
 Next steps
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Introduction
 electronic BS questionnaire Report on turnover of
business services which is used as a tool of the survey
Evaluation of business services related activities
 2009 - the first reference period for data collection by
means of electronic questionnaires
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each respondent has its own account at the reporting portal
and can fill in questionnaires in on-line version
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Exception: enterprises with the number of persons employed 5
and less
 in 2009 reorganization of the data production process
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each regional office cooperates with the CSO in the scope of
selected surveys and is in charge of processing data collected
within those surveys from entities from all over the country
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Description of the survey
 Survey Evaluation of business services related activities
 compilation of annual information on the value and the structure
of turnover with the breakdown into product and residence of
client
 methodology was elaborated within the works of Eurostat’s
Working Group on Services Statistics
 was launched in 2010 with the first reference year 2009
 Regulation (EC, EURATOM) No 58/97 of the Council of 20
December 1996 as well as the Regulation (EC) No 295/2008 of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 march 2008
concerning structural business statistics
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Description of the survey
 Further use of data:
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in compilation the index of services production which
recommends the use of data on turnover at the product level
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as the weights for services producer price indices
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Description of the survey
 BS questionnaire Report on turnover of business services
consists of three parts:
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1st part – respondent identification: name and place of
residence, number of National Official Business Register
REGON, symbol of Polish Activity Classification (PKD) as
well as some contact information
2nd part – data collection on turnover by residence of client
(the percentage of turnover broken into residence of client:
residence in country, in countries of the European Union and
in countries outside the European Union)
3rd part - information on the total value of turnover as well as
the value of turnover from the sale of individual products
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Population Coverage
 All enterprises with the number of persons employed 10 and
more which run the following business services related
activities:
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IT activities: software publishing (58.2 by NACE Rev.2), computer
programming, consultancy and related activities (62 by NACE Rev.2),
information service activities (63 by NACE Rev.2)
legal activities (69.1 by NACE Rev.2)
accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy bookkeeping and auditing activities (69.2 by NACE Rev.2)
management consultancy activities (70.2 by NACE Rev.2)
architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy
(71.1 by NACE Rev.2)
technical testing and analysis activities (71.2 by NACE Rev.2)
advertising (73.1 by NACE Rev.2)
market research and official opinion polling (73.2 by NACE Rev.2)
employment activities (78 by NACE Rev.2)
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Data Collection
 Survey Evaluation of business services related activities was
introduced to official statistics in 2010 with the first reference
year 2009
 BS questionnaire Report on turnover of business services works
only in electronic version
However …
 the profits resulted from new practices can be considered on the
basis of
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experiences acquired from the pilot studies (conducted within the
works of Eurostat’s Working Group on Services Statistics)
the present survey during its functioning in the reference years
2009-2011
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Data Collection
Past practices
pilot studies
2003
2004
• surveyed activities by NACE Rev. 2:
• surveyed activities by NACE Rev. 2:
• IT: 58.2, 62 and 63
• accounting and management
consultancy: 69.2 and 70.2
• architecture and engineering
(71.1)
• advertising (73.1)
• enterprises (44 442 units):
• all large
• 25% sample of medium and
small enterprises
• legal activities (69.1)
• technical testing and analysis
(71.2)
• market research and opinion
polling (73.2)
• employment activities (78)
• enterprises (28 549 units):
• all large and medium
• 45% sample of small enterprises
• response rate: 20%
• response rate: 28%
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Data Collection
Past practices
regional offices sent
out paper
questionnaires
designed regarding the
type of services activity
final analysis
and datasets
acceptation
grossing up
and final results
compilation
via
post
respondents
covered by
settled sample
frame
1 month
via post
return of
fulfilled questionnaires
to regional offices
after
1 month
data registration
in electronic
database and
control
regional offices and CSO
contact with
respondents
who did not
delivered the
required data
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Data Collection
Past practices
 voluntary participation in survey
 response rates
 2003 – 28%
 2004 – 20%
 coverage of enterprises with the number of persons emloyed 9
and less
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Data Collection
New practices
 the most significant differences:
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implementation of electronic reporting system
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specialization of regional offices
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in 2010 ten different BS questionnaires were replaced by one
integrated electronic questionnaire: BS Report on turnover of
business services
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Data Collection
New practices
survey sample
frame preparation
in Generator of
sample frames
Base of
Statistical Units
sample frame
placement on
the reporting
portal
via
regular post
provision of information
concerning reporting
account
non-response
estimation and final
dataset acceptation
the end of year
after the end of
reference year
respondents are
automatically
informad about
reporting obligation
data control,
2 months
corrects’ introduction,
data comparing with
other surveys
e-mail reminder
closure of
reporting portal
after 3 editions
of survey
1 month
login to
reporting
portal and
fulfillment of
questionnaire
after
14 days
1 month
return of
fulfilled
questionnaires
to regional office
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Data Collection
New practices
Operational efficiencies gained from new practices
 as far as the response rate is concerned it is not proven that
access to the electronic questionnaire improve it
 reduction of number of statisticians’ contacts with respondents
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due to control procedures carried out at the stage of on-line
reporting data the possibility of making logical errors is minimized
 reduction of statisticians’ burden at the stage of manual inserting
data to the IT survey system
 high share of reporting units which choosed the electronic
questionnaire
 costs savings of printing, correspondence, phone calls, data
analyzing and inserting into the IT survey system
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Data Collection
Next steps
 integration of BS questionnaire Report on turnover of business
services with SP questionnaire Annual survey on enterprises
 widening the coverage of survey by the population of
enterprises with the number of persons employed 9 and less (for
example every 5 years)
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Thank you for your attention
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