Transcript QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS IN CROATIAN BUSINESS REGISTER AND IMPLICATIONS OF REVISION OF NACE Prepared by Zrinka Pavlović and Dubravka Celić Geneva, 18 - 19 June.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS IN CROATIAN
BUSINESS REGISTER AND IMPLICATIONS OF
REVISION OF NACE
Prepared by Zrinka Pavlović and Dubravka Celić
Geneva, 18 - 19 June 2007
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Contents
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Introduction
Units in the SBR
Coverage
Sources of the SBR
Updating of the SBR
Implications of revision of NACE
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Introduction
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Register of Business Entities – since 1976
Project of establishing the Statistical Business
Register started with the Twinning project with
Statistics Denmark and Statistics Sweden in 2003
The first version of the SBR was set up in 2004
Goals:
 Meeting the demands from the users inside the CBS
 Complying with EU regulations concerning business
registers for statistical purposes
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Starting point
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Register of Business Entities –
administrative register - used for statistical
purposes but with many drawbacks
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Data collected in the Pilot business census
that covered around 5000 businesses
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A number of administrative sources with
possibility to be used in the SBR
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Units in the SBR
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Legal units
– transferred from administrative sources
Enterprises
– linked to the legal units by one-to-one
connection
Local units
– compiled from administrative sources,
contact with the enterprise, from
Internet, etc.
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Coverage
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Legal persons and government bodies
Crafts (sole proprietors)
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Free lances – not yet covered
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Sources of the SBR (1)
Basic administrative sources
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Register of Business Entities (RBE)
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For legal persons and government bodies
Central Register of Crafts (CRC)
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For natural persons - crafts
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RBE
LEGAL UNIT
SBR
LEGAL UNIT
CRC
CRAFT
ENTERPRISE
LOCAL LEGAL
UNIT
LOCAL UNIT
ESTABLISHMENT
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Sources of the SBR (2)
Other administrative sources
– Financial Agency (FINA)
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data on employment,
net turnover
activity status
– Tax Administration (TA)
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data on activity status,
activity codes for crafts
number of employees for crafts and legal persons not
found in FINA data base
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Sources of the SBR (3)
Statistical sources
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Results from the pilot SBS survey for construction 2005 (900
units needed correction of the main activity codes)
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Feedback from 2006 Annual reports on gross fixed capital
formation in fixed assets
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Other SBS surveys (distributive trade in 2006 and industrial
production in 2007) are planned to be used for improving the
quality of SBR data
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IV. Updating of the SBR
The SBR is updated from administrative and
statistical sources:
Source
Frequency
Variable
Register of Business Entities
Monthly
Births
Deaths
Changes of name, address, activity code, legal
form, etc.
Central Register of Crafts
Semi-annually
Births
Deaths
Changes of name, address, etc.
Financial Agency
Annually
Activity status
Net turnover
Employment
Tax Administration
Annually
Activity status
Activity codes for crafts
Employment
SBS
Annually
Change of the activity code
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V. Implications of revision of NACE
1. Reclassification of units in the RBE
2. Improving the quality of the registered
activity codes
3. Sending the notification about the new
code to the companies
4. Taking over main activity codes into the
SBR
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1. Reclassification of units in the
Register of Business Entities
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Updating activity codes in both RBE and SBR
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No survey
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Statisticians involved
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Automatic recoding for 1:1 and n:1 cases
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Manual recoding for 1:n and m:n cases - only for
units with >=10 employees,
other units – automatic recoding using
correspondence tables
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2. Improving the quality of the
registered activity codes
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Updating of the RBE activity codes happen quite
rarely on the demand of the company, exceptionally
on the request of the statisticians
Correcting the old and incorrect codes will be
combined with reclassification according to the new
NACE Rev 2 codes
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3. Sending the notification about the
new code to the companies
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Active units will be informed about newly assigned
main activity code
Opportunity for the company to react if new code
does not comply with actual activity
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4. Taking over main activity codes into
the SBR
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Newly assigned codes of legal units in the RBE will be taken
over into the SBR
New codes for crafts will be taken over from the Tax office
since this is the main source for activity codes for crafts
Secondary activities of the enterprises will be recoded
automatically as well as the activity codes for local units
Revision of a number of such automatically assigned codes in
the next year quality survey that is planned to be carried out
for the first time
It is expected that all work of implementing the new
classification will be done by the end of the year.
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Future plans
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Coverage of units in the SBR will be improved by including the
free lances.
Preparations for including enterprise groups will be started.
Using the results from other SBS and statistical surveys for
updating activity codes in the SBR.
Using other administrative sources for updating or adding the
new data to the SBR and cooperation with currently used
sources in improving their data quality .
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Conclusion
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Quality improvements of the SBR - continuing task
and among the key priorities in Croatian CBS.
Scarce resources (especially IT staff and funding for
SBR surveys) are the major obstacle to bigger
progress, but development of the Croatian SBR is
steadily going on in fulfilling the task that is
primarily finding the way to meet the users' needs.
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