Transcript Challenges of Central Statistical Business Register Establishment in Egypt Iman El Hitta Economic Statistical Sector, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) Cairo, Egypt CAPMAS,

Challenges of Central Statistical Business
Register Establishment in Egypt
Iman El Hitta
Economic Statistical Sector, Central Agency
for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)
Cairo, Egypt
CAPMAS, Egypt
Introduction
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Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics CAPMAS) must
be a responsible for building a central statistical business Register.
Central statistical business register using administrative data is
unavailable in Egypt. CAPMAS have a frame of establishment census
that conducted at 2006 and it was planned to will be conduct economic
census based on sampling by the end of this year. According to
establishment census 2006, there are about 2.4 million working
establishments.
 CAPMAS have sectoral lists or frames of enterprises/ establishments by
economic activities e.g. manufacturing, trade, transport, storing and
financing.
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Introduction
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Surveys conducted by CAPMAS, Transport Registers , Health Records,
Federation of Egyptian Industries records and General Authority for
industrial development, General Authority for investment & Free Zones
Records, Central Bank Records and agriculture ministry Records are the
data sources that used for maintaining and updating the list of enterprises
and establishments. We receive from these data resource the information
about name, address , industrial classification, sector, and legal entity .
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The Current Situation of Economic Statistics in CAPMAS
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CAPMAS have an enterprises/establishments frame for r egular surveys
that coverage Public sector enterprises/ establishments and the cut-off
point of private sector enterprises/ establishments is 10 and more
employees for industrial surveys and there is no cut-off point for
the rest of regular statistics. All type of business are included in the
Establishment Census and Economic Census.
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CAPMAS used ISIC version 4 for coding the industrial classification at
most detailed level ( 6 digits ). There is no an identity number for
statistical units that be independent of other characteristics and not be
changed throughout the life of unit in establishment census or
economic census, and the regular statistics; for that we link the data
from different sources by using legal name.
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Challenges of a Central Business Registers Establishment
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Every administrative agency have own identified number because we
haven't Unified Registration. Any enterprise/ establishment must do
registration at Tax Authority, hen at chamber of commerce and finally
at commercial register.
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For receiving data from other agencies regularly we must do agreement
to sign a memorandum of understanding with every agency. In my
country, there was a project to establish Central ABR but until now only
the commercial register data is mostly finished and compare with
Tax data. I think the rest of project except the commercial register data
is not competed. The commercial register have ID number for every
enterprise/ establishment, that number is Tax ID .
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The Tax ID is existing in all other registers but some registers like
insurance registers isn't an amendatory field.
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Challenges of Central Business Registers Establishment
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There is not enough information from one data source and also, there are
problems to receive data about revenue of enterprises from Egyptian Tax
Authority according law.
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