Transcript Roundtable 2: Issues of linking units administrative sources with those in statistical BR Workshop on Business Registers and their Role in Business Statistics in.

Roundtable 2:
Issues of linking units administrative sources
with those in statistical BR
Workshop on Business Registers and their Role in
Business Statistics in the Eastern UNECE region
Luxembourg, 5 October 2009
Norbert Rainer
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Content
 Use of administrative sources and issues /
problems related
 Issues of the correct identification of
economic activity and institutional sector
of statistical units
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Sources of the Business register
Administrative
data/register
Legal units
Enterprises
Feedback
from surveys
Register
co-operation
w.o. institutions
Business register
(Local) KAU
Other (nonadministrative)
data sources
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Local units
Enterprise groups
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Functions of the Business register
Link to
administrative
data
Frame for
statistical
surveys
Statistical
database
Survey
support
Survey
documentation
and response
burden
Documentation
of classification
codes
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Business
register
Register
co-operation
w.o. statistical
institutions
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Other statistical
use (e.g. business
demography
statistics)
Other
non-statistical
uses
Administrative sources
Most important administrative sources:
o
Value added tax data
o
Social security data
o
Personal income tax data
o
Corporate tax data
Also in some countries: single administrative business register
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Issues / Problems (1)
 No unique numerical identifier
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Data matching methods
 Different definitions of units
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Distinction in the BR between administrative
units and statistical units
 Different continuity rules
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Distinction in the BR between administrative
units and statistical units
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Issues / Problems (2)
 Other quality issues
o Up - to - date information
o missing data/units
o accuracy of characteristics
 Using complementary sources
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Improving the situation
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Memorandum of Understanding (Service agreements/contacts)
o
conditions for the supply of data
o
detailed delivery time tables and data, including metadata
o
confidentiality and security
o
regular relationship meetings
o
resolution of disputes
o
consultation before changing forms
o
consultation before altering characteristics
o
feedback on quality issues
o
considering statistical needs
(based on Ron McKenzie: Managing the quality of administrative data in
the production of economic statistics; 57th ISI Conference, August 2009)
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Activity coding (1)
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Importance of the activity (NACE) coding
o
Tabulation and structural analysis
o
Definition of survey coverage
o
Criterion for reporting obligations
o
Other (non-statistical) uses
Who does the coding ?
o
Enterprises themselves
o
Staff of a single administrative BR
o
Staff of other administrative registers
o
Staff of statistical business register (or / together with other
statistical staff)
Activity coding (2)
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Methods of coding
o Enterprises versus local unit level
o Basic information sources
- Name and legal business description
- General business description
- Information from economic surveys
- Information from special register surveys
- Other sources
o Manual versus automatic coding
o Main proxies used for unknown value added
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Coding according to institutional sectors (1)
- Definition of an institutional unit:
The institutional unit is an elementary economic decision-making
centre characterised by uniformity of behaviour and decisionmaking autonomy in the exercise of its principal function. A
resident unit is regarded as constituting an institutional unit if it
has decision-making autonomy in respect of its principal function
and either keeps a complete set of accounts or it would be
possible and meaningful, from both an economic and legal
viewpoint, to compile a complete set of accounts if they were
required.
Enterprises are institutional units
- Definition of an institutional sector:
The institutional units are grouped into sectors on the basis of
the type of producer they are and depending on of their principal
activity and function, which are considered to be indicative of
their economic behaviour.
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Coding according to institutional sectors (2)
Sectors and sub-sectors
Non-financial corporations
S.11
Financial corporations
S.12
Public
National
Private
Foreign
Controlled
S.11001
S.11002
S.11003
Central Bank
S.121
Other monetary financial institutions
S.122
S. 12201
S.12202
S.12203
Other financial intermediaries, except
insurance corporations and pension funds
S.123
S. 12301
S.12302
S.12303
Financial auxiliaries
S.124
S.12401
S.12402
S.12403
Insurance corporations and pension funds
S.125
S.12501
S.12502
S.12503
General government
S.13
Central government
S.1311
State government
S.1312
Local government
S.1313
Social security funds
S.1314
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Coding according to institutional sectors (3)
Sectors and sub-sectors
Households
Public
S.14
Employers (including own account workers)
S.141+S.142
Employees
S.143
Recipients of property incomes
S.1441
Recipients of pensions
S.1442
Recipients of other transfers incomes
S.1443
Others
S.145
Non-profit institutions serving households
S.15
Rest of the world
S.2
The European Union
S.21
The member countries of the EU
S.211
The institutions of the EU
S.212
Third countries and international
organisations
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National
Private
Foreign
Controlled
Coding according to institutional sectors (4)
Sectors
The term ‘non-financial corporations’
denotes all bodies recognised as
independent legal entities which are
market producers and whose
principal activity is the production of
goods and non-financial services.
S.11 Non-financial corporations
S.12 Financial corporations
S.13 General government
S.14 Households
S.15 Non-profit institutions
serving households
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Coding according to institutional sectors (5)
Sectors
S.11 Non-financial corporations
The sector financial corporations (S.12)
consists of all corporations and quasicorporations which are principally
engaged in financial intermediation
(financial intermediaries) and/or in
auxiliary financial activities (financial
auxiliaries)
S.12 Financial corporations
S.13 General government
S.14 Households
S.15 Non-profit institutions
serving households
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Coding according to institutional sectors (6)
Sectors
S.11 Non-financial corporations
S.12 Financial corporations
The sector general government
(S.13) includes all institutional
units which are other non-market
producers (see paragraph 3.26.)
whose output is intended for
individual and collective
consumption, and mainly financed
by compulsory payments made by
units belonging to other sectors,
and/or all institutional units
principally engaged in the
redistribution of national income
and wealth.
S.13 General government
S.14 Households
S.15 Non-profit institutions
serving households
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Coding according to institutional sectors (7)
Sectors
S.11 Non-financial corporations
S.12 Financial corporations
S.13 General government
The households sector (S.14.)
covers individuals or groups of
individuals as consumers and
possibly also as entrepreneurs
producing market goods and nonfinancial and financial services
(market producers) provided that,
in the latter case, the
corresponding activities are not
those of separate entities treated
as quasi-corporations.
S.14 Households
S.15 Non-profit institutions
serving households
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Coding according to institutional sectors (8)
Sectors
S.11 Non-financial corporations
S.12 Financial corporations
The sector non-profit institutions
serving households (NPISHs)
(S.15.) consists of non-profit
institutions which are separate legal
entities, which serve households
and which are private other nonmarket producers (see paragraph
3.32.). Their principal resources,
apart from those derived from
occasional sales, are derived from
voluntary contributions in cash or in
kind from households in their
capacity as consumers, from
payments made by general
governments and from property
income.
S.13 General government
S.14 Households
S.15 Non-profit institutions
serving households
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Coding according to institutional sectors (9)
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Variables that can be used for classifying:
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NACE activity
•
Legal form
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Whether an institutional unit belongs to public
administration
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Whether an institutional unit belongs to non-profit
institutions
However, the sector classification is basically a
national accounts classification. Additional
information that is not covered in the BR might
necessary (from national accounts; from central bank)
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Coding according to institutional sectors (10)
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Institutional sectors that can be classified by NACE
code solely:
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Enterprises classified in NACE Rev. 2 65.11 (Central
bank) are allocated to sub-sector S.121 (Central bank)
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Enterprises classified in NACE Rev. 2 65 (Insurance)
are allocated the sub-sector S. 125 (Insurance
corporations and pension funds)
Institutional sectors that can be classified by legal form
solely:
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Enterprises with unit legal form sole proprietorship
are allocated to sector S.14 (Households)
All other sectors can only by classified by using a
combination of criteria
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Thank you for your attention !
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