Transcript Linkages of Structural Business and Trade Statistics: Eurostat’s experiences, first results and next steps Karo Nuortila European Commission/Eurostat F/2International Trade.

Linkages of Structural Business
and Trade Statistics:
Eurostat’s experiences, first results and
next steps
Karo Nuortila
European Commission/Eurostat F/2International Trade
Structural Business Statistics and
Statistics on Trading of Goods in European
Statistical System
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Structural Business Statistics (SBS) describe the
structure and evolution of activities of businesses
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Annual statistics with a great number of variables
No data on external trade
Statistics on trading of goods describe trade flows
between countries with a breakdown of products
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Monthly statistics with detailed breakdowns of products
and partner countries
No data on traders
How combined trade and business
statistics can be compiled?
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Implicit trade statistics by activities can be provided by
converting traded products to manufacturing industries
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A better solution: link trade registers with business register
Benefits:
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A link between CN and CPA (NACE)
Problem: based on the assumption that manufacturer and trader are
the same => all trade allocated to manufacturing sector
The link exists already (required by Business Register Regulation)
No need for data collection; uses the data already collected
Detailed level of trade data can be maintained
The most important economic variables available (activity, number of
employees, turnover)
Drawback:
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The method focuses on trade variables and basic enterprise
characteristics; more in-depth analysis from the viewpoint of SBS is
limited unless a further linkage is made to SBS micro data
Links between trade operators and
statistical units in Business Registers
Business Register
Legal unit
Enterprise
Group
Enterprise
Local unit
Trade Register
Trade operator
Standardisation Exercise
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A common pilot study in the frame of Edicom II program
Objectives:
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First exercise 2002
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To test the feasibility of matching business and trade registers
To reconcile trade flows according to enterprise characteristics
coherently
9 Member States participated
Results published in 2004
Second exercise 2005
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Data collection just finished
Minor changes to methodology and tables
15 Member States participated
Results expected to publish late 2005
Standardisation Exercise
Enterprise in
Business Register
- Number of enterprises
- Characteristics:
• Activity sector (NACE Rev.1)
• Size-class (10 size-classes
according to number of
employees)
Trade Operator in Trade
Register and in trade data
- Value of trade broken down by
• Intra/Extra EU trade
• Flow
• Product (CPA 2-digit level)
• Partner country
Predefined tables
• Size-class x activity sector
• Activity sector x product
• Level of trade x product
• Activity sector x partner zone
• Etc.
Analysis
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Trade by activity
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Trade by activity and products
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What is the contribution of small, medium-sized and big enterprises
to trade?
Trade by size-class and activity
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Does an enterprise trade typical products of that industry?
Which industries are involved in trade of each product
(manufacturers, service sector)?
Trade by size-class
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What is the contribution of each activity sector to total trade?
Are small/big enterprises more typical in trade flows of certain activity
sectors?
Trade by products or by partners
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How concentrated is the trade in particular products or with particular
partner countries?
Results: Trade by activities (NACE)
compared to products (CPA),
aggregate of 8 Member States (% share of total trade).
Exports
Nace Rev. 1 / CPA
Agriculture and fishing
Manufacturing Industries
Imports
NACE
CPA
NACE
CPA
A-B
.
1.0
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4.0
C-F
73.5
99.0
45.2
96.0
Mining and quarrying
C
0.4
1.3
0.1
5.6
Manufacturing
D
72.7
97.2
43.2
90.4
Electricity & gas
E
0.2
0.1
1.5
0.3
Construction
F
0.3
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0.4
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G-O
26.5
0.0
54.8
0.0
Distributive trade
G
18.3
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44.2
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Transport
I
1.6
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2.8
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Finance
J
0.1
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0.8
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Real estate and business services
K
6.1
0.0
5.3
0.0
Other services
L-O
0.4
0.0
1.7
0.0
Services
Results: Trade by size-class of enterprises,
average of intra-EU trade of 9 Member States
(% share of total trade)
Arrivals
Dispatches
number of value of
number of value of
enterprises trade
enterprises trade
0-9
45.2
16.7
37.1
18.4
10-49
33.9
19.9
35.7
14.9
50-249
16.1
26.5
21.5
24.0
250-999
3.9
20.2
4.8
20.9
1000+
0.8
16.7
0.8
21.7
Way forward
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Legal basis
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Discussion on new Regulation
Globalisation indicators in trade statistics
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Trade of multinational enterprise groups
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Business Registers: new Regulation foreseen
An obligatory recording of enterprise groups
Possible to identify enterprises which belong to multinational
enterprise groups (both domestically and foreign controlled)
New statistics to be developed in co-operation with FATS
statistics
Intra-firm trade
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Requires information on individual transactions => additional
data collection