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Sheet 1: Organisation
| I. Organisation and Population of the Business Registers | ||||||||||||
| No. | Country | Reporter | Institution | 1. Name of the register | 2. The name of the organisation responsible for holding the register | 3. The place of the register unit in the organisation | 4. Main goal of the register | 5. Year of establishment of the register | 6. Year(s) of the main re-engineering(s) of the register | 7. Number of employees in the register unit | 8. Number of live (active) units in the register in past year | 9. Main changes during past year and any comments |
| 1 | Australia | Please see the file Australia Country progress report_2009.doc | ||||||||||
| 2 | Belarus | Please see the file Belarus Country progress report_2009.xls | ||||||||||
| 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Please see the file Bosnia and Herzegovina_Short information on Business Register Sept 09, BA.doc | ||||||||||
| 4 | Burkina Faso | Please see the file Burkina Faso Country progress report 2009.doc | ||||||||||
| 5 | Canada | Mario Ménard | Statistics Canada | Business Register (BR) | Statistics Canada | The Business Register is a central frame and is under the responsibility of the Business Register Division | The BR is used to support the following activities; establishing a survey frame, sampling, collecting and processing data, and producing estimates | 1985 | 2005 to 2008 | 110 | 2.6 million | |
| 6 | CROATIA | Zrinka Pavlović | Central Bureau of Statistics | Statistical business register | Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia | Statistical business register is placed in the Registers Departement within Statistical Infrastructure Direcorate | Main goal of the SBR is to be a frame for statistical surveys providing good coverage of businesses and all necessary information about businesses that are needed to conduct surveys | 2004 | 2008 and 2009 | 4 | 213,469 | Redesign of the SBR data base and user interface is in progress. Additional variables will be added for existing units (legal units, enterprises and local units) and also EGs will be introduced into the SBR; All units in the SBR are reclassified to new NACE Rev. 2 codes; Coverage of the SBR has been improved by including free lances |
| 7 | CZECH REPUBLIC | Stanislav Palas | Czech Statistical Office | Business Register | Czech Statistical Office | Department of Statistical Registers | framework for statistical surveys, support of grossing-up methods, dissemination of information concerning business population | 1971 | 1997 | 70 | 2,481,863 | co-operation with EGR, evaluation of new commercial sources for enterprise groups updating |
| 8 | CYPRUS | THOMAS GREGORIOU | STATISTICAL SERVICE OF CYPRUS | Cyprus Statistical Business Register | Statistical Service of Cyprus | Labour Statistics, Prices and Business Register Unit | Keep data on Legal Units, Enterprises, Local Units and Enterprise Groups, provide the sampling frame and be the source for Business Demography. Classify units according to economic activity | 1986 | 2005, 2008 | 4 | 99037 ent | The Business Register has been linked to the Social Insurance Register |
| 9 | Denmark | Jesper Moltrup-Nielsen | Statistics Denmark | Danish Statistical Business Register (SBR) | Statistics Denmark | Business Register division, Department of Business Statistics | The main purpose of the SBR is to make the statiscal frame for any business related statistics produced by Statistics Denmark | 1999 | 2008 | App. 19 | 659261 | The project for implementation of enterprise groups in the SBR has been completed. Also, a major re-engineering of the functionality for handling LKAUs from the administrative Business Register was completed in 2008 |
| 10 | Estonia | Svetlana Shutova | Statistics Estonia | Business Register for Statistical Purposes | Statistics Estonia | Enterprise Statistics Department, Statistical Profile Service | The register is the base to create the frame for statistical surveys and to produce statistics on the demography of enterprises and statistics on enterprise groups | 1994 | 1999 – 2002 | 5 | 138300 | |
| 11 | European Central Bank | Peter Neudorfer, Patrick Sanders | Directorate General Statistics | RIAD ("Register of Institutions and Assets Database') | European Central Bank | Directorate General Statistics (DG-S) | Based on Regulation (EC) 2423/2001 maintain and publish a list of financial institutions which constitute the reporting population for important financial statistics of the euro area | 1998 | continous | <1FTE | ~10,000 | The application has been technically adopted to be able to host additional lists of financial entities. |
| 12 | European Commission (EU) | Claude Macchi | Statistical Office of the EU (Eurostat) | EuroGroups Register (EGR) | Eurostat, Unit G1 (Business Statistics - coordination and registers) | Unit G1 is part of the Directorate G (Business Statistics) | The EGR is a network of registers, consisting of a central register kept at Eurostat and "satellite" registers in each EU Member State and in EFTA Countries | 2008 | 8 | 5'000 MNEs | After the EGR pilot project (in 2006) proving the feasibility at Eurostat and the follow-up projects (in 2007) on data acquisition and the IT improvement, Eurostat initiated in 2008 the acquisition of data from private providers, the establishment of an ESSnet consisting in 4 NSIs for methodological work and the further IT development of the EGR system | |
| 13 | Finland | Tuula Viitaharju | Statistics Finland | Business Register | Statistics Finland | There are 8 main departments in Statistics Finland. Business Register belongs as a subset to Business Trends department | base register in statistical production, source of business population and business demography statistics, source for chargeable, taylor-made services, enterprise repondent register | 1968 | 1997, 1983 | 32 | 520000 | some 30 000 enterprise units, mainly family farms of agriculture and forestry, were added into register |
| 14 | Germany | Anke Rink | DESTATIS, Federal Statistical Office of Germany | Unternehmensregister URS95 | Federal Statistical Office of Germany (DESTATIS) and the statistical offices of the federal states | Federal Statistical Office of Germany - Division IV A: Business Register, Coordination of Business Statistics, Classifications | infrastructure for business statistics | 1995 | app. 200 | 3.5mill enterp. | introduction of the NACE rev.2 | |
| 15 | GREECE | THEANO TYFOXYLOU | NATIONAL STATISTICAL SERVICE OF GREECE | NSSG Business Register | National Statistical Service of Greece (NSSG) | Registers and Classifications Section | Provision of information on businesses and their main characteristics to users and analysts, sampling frame for the statistical surveys, main source for business demography | 1958 | 1994, 2000 | 4 | 898204 ent | |
| 16 | Hungary | Ferenc Takács | Hungarian Central Statistical Office | Hungarian Business Register | Hungarian Central Statistical Office | Business Statistic Department | It serves the basis of data collections, data processing and data dissemination | 1978 | 1998 | 9 | 1,243,775 | |
| 17 | Ireland | Felix Coleman | Central Statistics Office | Central Business Register | Central Statistics Office | Statistical Support and Innovation | Provide a sampling frame for Business surveys and produce Business Demography statistics | 1998 | 2004-2009 | 15 | 320,000 | The register has expanded its coverage of relevant units held by utilising greater access to administrative data. As well as units active in VAT and Employment the register now includes units that make active Corporate and Income tax returns. The coverage of the register has also been increased to include NACE sectors not previously been relevant |
| 18 | Italy | Monica Consalvi | The National Institute of Statistics (Istat) | The Statistical Register of Active Enterprises (ASIA), (in Italian, Archivio Statistico delle Imprese Attive) | The National Institute of Statistics (Istat) | The Unit on Business Registers, under the Central Direction ‘Administrative Archives Data and Statistical Registers’ | A centralised frame for SBS/STS surveys and for grossing up survey results; the official statistical source for information on the structure and the demography of the business population | 1996 | 1999, 2006 | 40 | 5,065,192 ent. | As regards the project to measure the quality of the Business Register by using a set of direct and indirect indicators, by following a "total quality" approach, the Quality Declaration (QD) was finally disseminated to internal users, together with the annual frozen release of the BR |
| 19 | Japan | Hideo UMEZAWA | Statistics Bureau of Japan | Statistical Frame of Establishments and Enterprises | Statistics Bureau of Japan | National Statistics Center | It provides ministries and agencies with the population data, and also provides information on the alternative candidates for the survey objects in order to rectify repetitions | 2002 | 2008 | 15members | 6400000 | Conduct of the 2009 Economic Census, Re-engineerings of the register, Use of the commercial and corporate registration data to the register |
| 20 | Latvia | Sarmite Prole | Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia | Statistical Business Register | Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia | The Business Register Section is a part of Business Statistics Department | The main goal is to detect and classify statistical units and to maintain the scope of economically active enterprises | 1992 | 2003; 2007 | 11 | 136199 | The main changes are improvements of Integrated Metadata Driven Statistical Data Management System which contains the database of Statistical Business Register |
| 21 | Luxembourg | Mike Hartmann | Statec | Répertoire des entreprises | Statec | General affairs department | To store and update basic information (administrative data, surveys) in a database used for producing statistics, survey frames and business demography data | 1995 | 4 FTE | 56.500 LEU | Availability of NACELUX Rev. 2 5-digit codes (sub-classes) for nearly all active and ceased legal and enterprise units | |
| 22 | Malta | James Briscoe, Manager Structural Business Statistics | National Statistics Office | Business Register | National Statistics Office | Structural Business Statistics | To act as a sample frame for all Business Surveys and to support Business Demography Statistics | 1997 | 2008 software | 1 P/T | 50000 Approx | Software as well as classification |
| 23 | MAURITIUS | The Statistician, Central Business Register Unit | CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE (CSO) | The Central Business Register | Central Statistics Office | The Central Business Register Unit (CBRU) | To provide a reliable, adequate and up-to-date business survey frames | 1995 | 2000 and 2009 | 4 | 90000 | Data were collected from both the Registrar of Companies and the Local Authorities. Presently, data are collected mainly from the Registrar of Companies as it is the only body authorized to issue business permits as from 2007 |
| 24 | Moldova | Iurie Mocanu, chief, Statistical infrastructure direction | National Bureau of Statistics | RENUS - National register of the statistical units | National Bureau of Statistics | The "SBS and register of the statistical units" section in the Statistical infrastructure Direction | Formation of the statistical units database :- identification, storage, data updating; as a tool for the conduct of surveys | 1998 | 6 | 42425 | Creation direct on-line communication channel with the Registration chamber (organization responsible for registration all events in the life of the units). | |
| 25 | New Zealand | Geoff Mead geoff.mead@stats.govt.nz | Statistics New Zealand | Business Frame | Statistics New Zealand | Part of the Industry And Labour Statistics Group within Statistics New Zealand | To provide Statistics New Zealand with a comprehensive statistical register of economically significant businesses | 1986 | 1996 | 13 | 470000 | |
| 26 | Norway | Anders Haglund | Statistics Norway | Central register of establishments and enterprises | Statistics Norway | Division of statistical populations | Form a full coveraged and documented register with high quality that represent a common population for enterprises and establishments inside Statistics Norway | 1965 | 1995, 1999 | 31 (23 BR) | 764508 LU+LKAU | A reorganisation of Statistics Norway lead to an inclusion of The Central register of population into the Business register unit. We now have gathered the three main base registers (inluding the register of addresses, buildings and dwellings) into one organisational unit inside Statistics Norway |
| 27 | POLAND | IRENEUSZ BUDZYNSKI - Head of Division | CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE OF POLAND | STATISTICAL BUSINESS REGISTER - SBR | CSO OF POLAND | METHODOLOGY, STANDARDS & REGISTERS DIVISION | SAMPLING FRAME FOR STATISTICAL SURVEYS | 2001 | 2002,04,07,09 | 14 | 3757713 | - DEVELOPING OF DATA AQUISITION FROM ADMIISTRATIVE SOURCES; - QUALITY DEVELOPMENT OF NACE REV.2 CODE; - UPDATING THE DATA ON ENTERPRISES GROUPS IN SBR BY RESULTS OF ANNUAL SURVEY; - CREATION OF SPECIAL UNITS IN REGIONAL STATISTICAL OFFICE FOR SUPPORTING THE WORKS ON SBR |
| 28 | Portugal | Jorge Magalhaes | National Statistical Office (INE) | Business Register - FUE | National Institut of Statistics | Department of Methodology and System Information | Coordination and harmonization of information relating to enterprise. To allow the reduction of the burden statistics. |
1994 | 2003 | 15 | 1060482 | |
| 29 | Serbia | Statistical Business Register | Statistical Office of Republic of Serbia | Statistical Registers and Standards Department - SBR Unit | Satisfaction of users (statistical surveys) | 2005 | 6 | 411631 Ent. | ||||
| 30 | Slovak Republic | Marta Mravcová | Statistical Office of the Slovak republic | The Statistical Register of Organizations | The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (SOSR) | Organisational Statistics Unit (a part of Methodology and Informatics Department) | The main goal of the register is creating the basic frame for coordination of the statistical surveys and providing data on business demography statistics | 1972 | 1993, 1999 | 5 | 687941 | Inclusion the enterprise groups in the register, development and implementation of new electronic system of data collection on free-licensed natural persons |
| 31 | SLOVENIA | Aleksandra Lešnjek | Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia | Statistical Business Register (SPRS) | Statistical Office of the republic of Slovenia | Business Statistics | To keep the record on statistical units on the basis of the EU regulation EC 177/2008 and national statistical needs | 2003/2004 | 11 | 152.000 enterp. | Starting the project of re-engineering the register as transactional data base which will enable us to keep the track of daily changes and will introduce the statistical identifier to follow the demography changes more efficiently | |
| 32 | South Africa | Marietha Gouws | Statistitics South Africa | Business Sampling Frame | Statistics South Africa | Cluster: Methodology and Standards; Division: Business Register | To provide a sampling frame for various economic surveys | 1999 | 2009 onwards | 72 | 588,104 | The profiling processes were re-engineered; quality improvement process. |
| 33 | Sweden | Björn Thornadtsson | Statistics Sweden | SBR - Statistical Business Register | Register Unit | Economic Statistics Department | Survey frame | 1975 | 1998-2000 | 25 | Ent: 1 041 481 | |
| 34 | TURKEY | ÜNAL, N.Özlem | TURKSTAT | Statistical Business Registers of Turkey | Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) | Industry and Business Statistics Department Business Registers Group | Having statistical units and variables according to international norms for survey frames and analysis. Keeping track of units' life cycle and enabling international comparisons | 2005 | 7 | ent =3490786 | ||
| 35 | The Netherlands | Jean Ritzen | Statistics Netherlands (SN) | General Business Register | SN-department of Business Registers (within the Division of Business Statistics) | Centralised within the Division of Business Statistics | To serve as sample frame for all economic statistics surveys and to serve as tool for linkage with administrative files with data that is to be used in compiling business statistics | 1974 | 1992, 2006 | 45 | 1.0 mln Ent | Coverage is extending because of the introduced new law on the Dutch trade register, that is the main administrative source for updating the BR. According this new law all sectors of the economy must register in the trade register, including agriculture and public administration. In addition to the information on point 8: For Statistics Netherlands we can report the following numbers: - Legal units: 1.9 million - Enterprise Groups: 0.98 million - Enterprises: 1.02 million - Local units: 1.12 million Definitions are according the EU-regulation on Statistical Units |
| 36 | United Kingdom | Andrew Allen | Office For National Statistics | Inter-departmental Business Register | Office For National Statistics | Within Business Statistics Division | To be a survey frame for all ONS and other government departments business surveys. To provide analysis on the business population of the UK | 1993 | partial 2007 | 76 | 2.3m | Introduction of a new survey , the Business Register and Employment survey , which will improve register updating of enterprise and local unit data. The new survey will also aim to collect local unit turnover. Also within the last year the ONS introduced a new release on business demography |
| 37 | U.S.A. | Eddie Salyers | Census Bureau | Business Register | Economic Planning and Coordination Division | The register is supported by several branches and divisions organized along functional lines | The primary functions of the register are to serve as a frame and source of administrative data for economic surveys and to provide data for published reports | 1974 | 2002 | 80 | 30 million | |
| II. Progress and Developments in the Past Year | |||
| No. | Country | 1. The short title of work which was done | Description of work |
| 1 | Australia | Please see the file Australia Country progress report_2009.doc | |
| 2 | Belarus | Please see the file Belarus Country progress report_2009.xls | |
| 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Please see the file Bosnia and Herzegovina_Short information on Business Register Sept 09, BA.doc | |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | Please see the file Burkina Faso Country progress report 2009.doc | |
| 5 | Canada | Ensure the hook-up of additional surveys to the BR | As stated in last year's report, we continue to hook new surveys to the Register. We have completed the reconciliation of the energy sector universe with the BR and all 23 energy surveys are now using the central frame. We have experienced some delays in the reconciliation of the public sector universe. The municipal governments were reconciled in 2008 but the federal and provincial governments' reconciliation will be completed in 2009 |
| Develop new quality measures for the BR | From our quality assurance survey, we are producing the quality of NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) coding for all establishments on the Register, on a monthly basis. These measures are available by industry and by province. We continue to improve the data quality of the frame by systematically applying updates which are available from various taxation data files. Using this information, we have developed rules that are applied on a monthly basis to deactivate enterprises that are still considered to be alive by the Taxation Authorities but are no longer operating | ||
| 6 | Croatia | Upgrading of the SBR data base and re-desing of the user interface | Redesign of the SBR (data base and user interface) is in the final - testing phase. Main purpose of redesign of the data base was adding new variables for existing units (LeU, Ent, LoU) in order to comply with the new Business Registers Regulation. Very important improvement is adding possibility to record historical information which was not possible in the old aplication |
| Preparation for inclusion of the Enterprise groups into the SBR | Project for inclusion of the EGs into the SBR has started by the end of 2008 as a part of the MB PHARE 2006 project. National methodology for identification and registration of EGs into SBR has been developed and manual has been prepared. One of the most important activities was defining the sources that will provide data about EGs. Several state institutions are identified as main sources. Establishing cooperation with these instituions is in progress. Within the redesigned SBR aplication part for EGs is developed for registration, updading and managing the EGs and this is in programming phase | ||
| Reclassification of SBR and improving the coverage and quality of SBR | All units in the SBR were reclasified to NACE Rev. 2 by the end of 2008. year. The coverage of the units in the SBR has been improved by including near 6000 free-lancers. The source of the data on free lances is Tax Administration. The quality of data in the SBR improved because of good feedback from the statistical departements. | ||
| 7 | CZECH REPUBLIC | Co-operation with Europeen Group Register | verification of national identificators, name legal units and adresses in commercial datasets from DnB and BvD, the automatical or mostly mannual audit of links between enterprises in the dataset from EGR |
| The evaulation of new commercial source for enterprise groups updating | Contract with CEKIA was signed. CEKIA is leading provider of economic information on companies in the Czech Republic | ||
| 8 | CYPRUS | Linking of the Business Register to the Social Insurance Register | The Business Register is linked to the Social Insurance Register since 2008. The unique identifiers used is the Identity Card number for the self employeed persons with no employees and the Employers´ Registration Number for the employers |
| 9 | Denmark | Implementation of enterprise groups in the SBR | Statistics Denmark has implemented the enterprise groups in the SBR. The work has been finalized so Statistics Denmark now is able to handle enterprise groups. The system has been fed with data from a private data provider, and the quality maintenance of these are now ongoing |
| Use of new administrative income register in maintenance of SBR | In Denmark the tax authorities has introduced a new administrative income register. This has meant that Statistics Denmark now will be able to get access to information in a more timely fashion. In the SBR we have therefore changed our system for linking employees to local kind of activity units (LKAUs), so that we will have this information updated quarterly instead of annually | ||
| 10 | Estonia | Publication of the first Quality Report | The first quality report of the statistical register data was published at the beginning of 2009. The quality report is for "in-house use" and monitors the changes occurred within the data and composition of population of active units and gives an overview of the most significant developments in the register during last year |
| Eurogroups Register ESSnet | Since the year 2008 Statistics Estonia participates in the ESSnet project "EuroGroups Register". Our duty in this project is the development of the Data Quality Management System of the EGR together with other members. This year we participated with the colleagues from Italy, the Netherlands, UK and Eurostat in the organisation of the first cycle of the exchange of data between EGR and countries | ||
| 11 | European Central Bank | Incorporation of 'Investment Funds' | Based on regulation (EC) 958/2007 the register does since summer 2009 also include a list of 'Investment Funds' (IFs); the initialisation of this list implied that the number of entiries in the database increased by ~50,000 |
| 12 | European Commission (EU) | First EGR data processing cycle | The first complete EGR data processing cycle with NSIs (EGR Version 1.0) started at the end of 2008. After the acquisition of private data, they were integrated into the EGR database. The process comprised loading, standardising and linking units at Eurostat and sending out link results resp. preliminary MultiNational Enterprises (MNEs) to NSIs for checking and correcting. NSIs provided Eurostat with improved and completed data as feedback (in several iterations). The first data sets with the final population frame of MNEs should be available mid December 2009. |
| New Business Register Recommendations Manual | According to the BR Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 the Business Register Recommendations Manual was considerably revised. The most important issues are the new characteristics and the treatment of truncated enterprise groups as well as their continuity rules in a consistent way in the EGR and the Recommendations Manual. The new version of the document will be discussed during the Business Register working group meeting on 8-9 October 2009. | ||
| Commission Regulation on exchange of EGR data with National Central Banks | Beginning of the work to define a Commission Regulation allowing the exchange of confidential data between Eurostat and National Central Banks (NSIs) which should be integrated in the entire EGR process. In order to avoid contradictory information, NSIs contributions for the EGR should be channelled via their data exchange with the NSIs. Problems have arisen in countries where the exchange of data between the NSI and the NCB are difficult. Eurostat has already started bilateral discussion with these countries in order to find acceptable solutions. | ||
| 13 | Finland | Implementation of NACE Rev.2 | All business register units were reclassified. The work was started on the level of local kind of activity units. The reclassification work was finalised in April 2008 and all data system features will be finalised in October 2009 |
| EGR related tasks | Efforts to harmonise data content and to merge some processes of Inward FATS and Business Register data collection concerning foreign owned enterprises have been realised | ||
| Emloyment variable, sole proprietors and partnerships, was improved | A new administrative data source was implemented and the estimation method was improved | ||
| 14 | Germany | Business Demography | The software to report data on business demography has been developed and tested. Data for the reference year 2005 and 2006 have been delivered to Eurostat in June 2009 |
| enterprise groups | The latest delivery of data on enterprise groups has been integrated into the BR. On international level, Destatis participated in the tests for implementing the data exchange between the EuroGroups Register at Eurostat and the national registers of the EU member states | ||
| Reduction of time lag | In order to reduce the time-lag of the administrative data that are processed in the BR (reporting year vs. reference year), which currently amounts to roughly two years. The reduction of the time-lag will be 6 months. The first part of the realisation has been finished (reduction 3 months), the second part is planned for 2010 | ||
| 15 | GREECE | First data delivery for the Business Demography characteristics | Series of Demographic characteristics is provided according to the Annex IX of the (recast) SBS Regulation (EC) 295/08 for the years 2004 and 2005, with the perspective of finalizing the series for 2006 by the end of the year |
| Enterprise Groups | Many contacts have been made with public and private data providers to gather information on Enterprise and Multinational Groups. Collaboration with the Central Bank has started to receive and evaluate data which are contained in its files | ||
| 16 | Hungary | Enterprise groups | With the use of administrative sources from the Registry Court there was uploaded the data of 6000 enterprise groups to the business register. The HCSO took part in the EGR project of Eurostat as well |
| Development of the connection and linkage with administrative sources | The HCSO has 3 main data sources about the registration and changes of enterprises. The data of sole proprietors were received through MQ data transmission system with XML messages from the Document Offices of the Inner Ministry until now as well. Before 2008 October the register updates from the Tax Office arrived once a week on data cassettes. From now on the Tax Office use the MQ data transmission system and so the register updates are transferred on-line as well. The data transmission system with the Court Offices was developed too |
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| Improvement of business demography statistics | Appropriate estimation method was developed for the death enterprises | ||
| 17 | Ireland | Corporation Tax alligmnet | Legally Incorporated Enterprises not previously captured (non -employment / not VAT active) have been captured on the Business Register |
| Publication of Business Demography | The register is now being used as the primary source for our Business Demography publications | ||
| Enterprise Group mapping | Improvements in our data sources have allowed us to track and update Enterprise groups on the Business Register.This has helped us to contribute to the Euro Groups Project and improved the sampling frame for our structural surveys | ||
| 18 | Italy | Data Exchange with the EuroGroup Register | From October 2008 ISTAT is the coordinator of the ESSnet in charge of the “Development of the methodology of business registers on multinational enterprise groups”, with co-partners ONS, CBS and Statistics Estonia. During year 2009 some areas of the EGR have been re-engineered and the first network of the EuroGroup Register has been established, with the first and second data exchange between the National Registers on EG and the Central EuroGroup Register. In February 2009 ISTAT organised the First ESSnet Workshop in Rome, aimed at disseminating the methodology for the first data exchange. Also, the Italian Register system on EG was further developed in order to make information on groups’ perimeters historical, to integrate and consolidate the results from the survey on FATS, to put it in communication with the Central EGR. ISTAT is also developing a specific software that will enable National Registers to communicate data with the EGR using an SDMX format |
| The Implementation of NACE Rev.2 | The new methodology to classify the enterprises of the BR according to NACE Rev. 2 classification (used also for the reference years 2005 and 2006) was applied with refers to 2007. The process was concluded in March 2009 for the principal activity and in June 2009 for the secondary activities. Also for the reference year 2007 the BR contains the economic activity codes with the double coding, according to both NACE Rev. 2 and NACE Rev. 1.1 classifications. In addition, the training activities about the new ATECO2007, the Italian 5-digit version of NACE Rev.2, continued for both internal and external users. Starting from the new procedure to determine NACE Rev. 2 codes and using its important results, the next step will be the study of a new methodology for the identification of KAUs |
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| The Farm Register | In the field of agricultural statistics and in particular in the realization of a project aiming at building up the Farm Register, the production of the prototype-list, resulted from the integration of different administrative sources covering the agricultural sector, has been realised. This list has been tested through a quality survey carried over 80 municipalities which results have been used for re-conciliation activities. According to these activities a methodology for the identification of eligible units, that is the agricultural holdings, has been set up. This methodology has applied for the building up of the final national list to be used as a support for the 2010 Census of Agriculture. Only after the Census operations the Farm Register will be set up | ||
| 19 | Japan | Conduct of the 2009 Economic Census | We conducted the 2009 Economic Census as of 1 July 2009 and the final results, which will be used as a basic data source for the register , will be released by November 2010 |
| Re-engineerings of the register | According to the action plan called “The Optimization of Operations and Systems for Statistical Work”, re-engineerings of the register was conducted as a subsystem of The Inter-Governmental Statistical Information System and we started the operation of the register in April 2008 |
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| Use of the commercial and corporate registration data for the register | We expand the coverage of population information and update the register monthly by obtaining commercial and corporate registration data from the Ministry of Justice since April 2008. The commercial and corporate registration data was also used for the preparatory list of the 2009 Economic Census |
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| 20 | Latvia | Improvement of Statistical Business Register | The main work was improvement of Enterprise Group Register in accordance with requirements on multinational enterprise group's maintenance and optimisation Statistical Business Register information system functionality |
| Implementation of special address code in Statistical Business Register | The address code is going to be implemented in all administrative files in Latvia. The CSB of Latvia to start implement of address code in Statistical Business Register. The goal of this action will be a significant decrease of time of manual operations made by statisticians, improved quality of register data and optimisation of inner register data exchange process | ||
| 21 | Luxembourg | Implementation of NACE Rev. 2 | The final structure of the national version of NACE Rev. 2 has been officially published by end of 2008 (including introductory and explanatory notes). Recoding of already existing active and ceased units was finalized by end of August 2009, except for NACE Rev 1.1 class 01.210 |
| Implementation of "Enterprise groups" in BR | Preliminary work to implement "Enterprise groups" in BR started by setting up a working group. The purpose of the working group is to analyze the work flow to be done, data availability and requirements, user needs and technical aspects of the data storage in the BR database. Our participation in the EGR project should be very useful in that context | ||
| Business demography | We further continued our participation to the Business demography project (old and new data series), even if data delivery for reference year 2006 was only possible by end of march 2009 | ||
| 22 | Malta | New Software incorporating Group data | Develop and test new software incorporating the ability to store different types of units and interconnecting links as well as storing data historically. These include new EGR data collected in SBS and supplimenting work being carried out on Euro Groups Register |
| Reclassification to Nace Rev 2 | Some 30000 units including all with 5 plus employed were manually recoded and a matrix was set up in order to reclassify the remainder. All units are now recoded and only some minor cleaning up of the results remains to be done | ||
| Include New Variables for EGR comparison and for outsourcing | Include new variables comparable to data being collected in SBS and supplimenting work being carried out on Euro Groups Register | ||
| 23 | MAURITIUS | Structural changes of the register | A new and reliable source, namely the Companies Division, is being tapped. The Companies Division is the sole authority for the registration of all production units in the country as from the year 2007 |
| Data collection from the Companies Division | Data are collected from the Companies Division. Meetings with officers of the Companies Division and the Local Authorities are held in order to increase awareness on the use of International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC)of all economic activities | ||
| 24 | Moldova | Daily data accesing about statistical units from the administrative source Registration chamber | Signing of an agreement about direct communication channel between the National Bureau of Statistics and Registration chamber . Elaboration of the concordant programme for receiving information. Daily on-line obtaining information of all recorded changes concerning statistical units |
| Preparation for obtaining information of noncommercial units from Justice Ministry | Elaboration and testing of the concordant programme for receiving information about noncommercial units | ||
| 25 | New Zealand | Further extensions in the use of administrative tax data to maintain the Business Frame | The use of administrative tax data to maintain the Business Frame for medium and small sized enterprises has been increased. With a consequential reduction in direct survey activity to maintain businesses on the Business Frame |
| Use of ANZSIC 2006 based industry classification by administrative agencies | The Business Frame has since 2006 been using the ANZSIC (Australian New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification) 2006 which is aligned with ISIC rev 4. During the past 12 months the tax office and other administrative agencies have moved to using an industry classification based on ANZSIC 2006. This move by the agencies to a common industry classification facilitates the use of administrative data to maintain the Business Frame | ||
| 26 | Norway | Sharing of work with the Labour and Welfare Organisation (LWO) | The LWO is one of seven administrative bodies that have a register cooperation round the Central register of Legal entities and it is responsible for the register of employers and employees. Statistics Norway is responible for the LKAU in this cooperation and the LWO use the LKAU for reporting of employees. From this year on the LWO gets the opportunity to make changes on the LKAU instead of report this to Statistics Norway |
| 27 | POLAND | THE USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA SOURCES IN SBR | Starting from year 2008 - the use of data from Polish Social Insurance Institution on employment to update the SBR. The increasing of the quality on employment especially for small units in SBR. The next administrative source for updaiting the SBR on turnover was Polish VAT system |
| LEGAL CHANGES ON SBR | Introduction a new subject to The programme of statistical surveys of official statistics: Statistical Units System concerning the regular aquisition the data from administrative sources for updating the SBR. The conditions for delivery the data from administrative bodies were defined. It will allow to receive data from administrative bodies on certain date during the year | ||
| REGISTER RE-ENGINEERING ON ENTERPRISES GROUPS IMPLEMENTATION | On the basis of first data exchange between EGR and national register the main framework were defined and done. Structures of national database table were improved and loaded according to basic needs of external transmission. External (EGR) ids were caught in extra defined field what enables more efficient exchange process in the future. Next steps and development are needed. The use of results of annual survey on enterprise groups fro updating the SBR | ||
| 28 | Portugal | SINACE - Integrated System for Management NACE-CODE | SINACE is an administrative system which the main objective is implementation the unique nace-code for each legal unit (NIPC_Key). That‘s the only one legally recognized, obligatoriness of the use for all the entities of the Public Administration and for the all entities in the National Statistic System (SEN). The INE has done participate to implement an inter-institutional data-system, with the harmonized procedures, and efficient for the unique attribution of Nace-code to the enterprises. In that process the INE is operational responsible for the attribution/the update of the Nace-code of the enterprise |
| SIGUA- The system for co-ordination of frame populations and samples from the Business Register | The implementation on the new structural system to coordinate bases of sampling and samples surveys, witch are linked at the BR, its allow increased online updates from the surveys and approach the quality of information from the BR and improved the coverage. These two data-system linked permits match up to statistics from the survey and reduce burden statistics. From BR, at the beginning of each year N+1 the “ Year of reference N” with the duration of one year, it allow to identify and to relate the population frame, bases of sampling and samples |
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| 29 | Serbia | Consolidation of data take-on from administrative sources | Automatisation of receiving, checking and updating procedures of Serbian Business Registers Agency and the Tax Office data. Create of different reports needed for manual corrections (exclusion lists, error types etc.) |
| Transition to NACE Rev.2 | About 50% of all units recoded automatically.Big and medium recoded manually (using diff. sources) | ||
| Checking contact data for all units with 10+ employees | Address, e-mail, phone and www is checked (work of statisticians from 15 regional statistical offices) | ||
| 30 | Slovak Republic | Inclusion the enterprise groups in the register | Information on enterprise groups were obtained from the first round of annual statistical survey carried out in 2008. The survey covered about 7000 legal units from which more than 3000 enterprise groups were delineated. The survey results were recorded in the re-engineered business register system during the first quarter of 2009 |
| Implementation of new electronic system of data collection on free-licensed natural persons | New electronic system for data collection on free-licensed natural persons has to protect personal data during their transmission to the statistical office. Therefore, a part of the security electronic system used for statistical data collection was adapted and successfully used for personal data transmission. This kind of data collection enabled us to improve the quality of the registered units in the frame of small enterprises | ||
| 31 | SLOVENIA | Development of a new software application | The main scope of the work was to design a new software application of statistical units on the basis of the available administrative and statistical sources. A new application will enable to keep the track on historical and current data and maintain the demography events of units in line withe the introduction of the new statistical identifier |
| 32 | South Africa | Re-introducing the 18 Month VAT edit rule | Life cycle status of units were changed according to the scope of the rule |
| Quarterly publication of Quality and performance measures and indicators | A Quality Management Framework (QMF) was introduced. A quarterly publication on the quality and performance measures and indicators as agreed in the QMF has been published | ||
| 33 | Sweden | Enterprise Groups | Participation in the Eurostat activity to develop and create a register concerning Multinational Enterprise Groups |
| Register system | Development of the Registersystem of Statistics Sweden where Business Register is one of three main registers | ||
| Pilot study | A pilot study for a new Business register has been carried through | ||
| 34 | TURKEY | Improvement of Business Registers | The focus is on the completion of the interfaces of the BR system. Some of the procedures which have been done manually with SQL queries till now have already been automated, even though the package is not completed thoroughly. All records has been started to be checked and standardized according to newly developed National Address Database |
| Enterprise Groups(EGs) | The EGs application of the year 2008 was completed succesfully with the inclusion of 1.265 different EGs in total. However, the population of EGs can not be derived from administrative sources | ||
| Business Demography(BD) | Tables containing all enterprises in the active populations of the reference years 2004 - 2008 were constructed. These BD tables were added by the main characteristics of the enterprises. However, there is no available source for detecting the demographic events in the records. Besides, the addresses taken from administrative sources are not standardized, which cause difficulties for comparison to define exact demographic events | ||
| 35 | The Netherlands | Enterprise Groups and the adaptation of the BR for use in redesign processes | a. Statistics Netherlands is heavily redesigning the processes for compiling economic statistics. In these the unit "Enterprise Group" will have a major role as starting point, e.g. for linkage with available files containing data that can be used, mainly from tax administration. Focus is given to improve the quality of the population of enterprise groups. b. Registering the multinational (global) Enterprise Groups has also high attention in the European EG Register project (EGR: EuroGroupsRegister) in which SN participates. c. Improvement of registering Enterprise Groups results in improved delineation of belonging Enterprises by profiling. In the multinational groups the benefits are in quality of FATS and in national SBS |
| The introduction of a module for assigning activity code to units | Primary responsibility for assigning activity code (NACE rev.2) is at the Trade Register now. Statistics Netherlands developed an automated module that supports this process and that is introduced and used now in registration of units in the Trade register. The trade register is the national administrative business register held and maintained with the Chambers of Commerce and that serves as the main source for updating the statistical BR at SN | ||
| Co-operation with Central Bank in Register holding and maintenance | Statistics Netherlands and the Dutch National Central Bank started preparatory discussions on the joining of the separate business registers in the two institutions. Some preconditions were formulated. By joining the register quality of the units in the financial units would improve. Top management of the two institutions is being asked for support to go further with the idea. In the EuroGroupsRegister project Statistics Netherlands and The Central Bank are already co-operating very closely | ||
| 36 | United Kingdom | Participation in the ESSnet on the Euro group register | This project has taken up most of the ONS development resource over the last year. |
| Introduction of Business Register and Employment Survey | A pilot of the new BRES sample was carried out and the results assessed. Changes were made to the sample design and survey questionniarre. The new survey sample was selected in August and has recently been despatched. New monthly updating procedures have been designed to improve the speed with which results are updated on the IDBR | ||
| Introduction of a new Business Demography publication | In November 2008, ONS published 2007 birth, deaths and survival data in a new press release. This used the Eurostat methodology, but made estimates for reactivations to allow more timely delivery | ||
| 37 | U.S.A. | 2007 Economic Census Processing | The primary focus of staff supporting the Business Register during 2008 was processing the 2007 Economic Census. We surveyed approximately 4.5 million establisments as part of the Economic Census. The Business Register serves as the mail lists and control file for processing and the results of the Economic Census are used to update the register |
| Upgrade of System Infrastructure | We began work to move our current system from an Oracle 9i database on VAX/VMS to Oracle 11g on Blade/Lunix. This move requires some changes to software and extensive testing and coordination with production activities | ||
| Research on business with large receipts and no employees | On our business register income tax returns (administrative data) are the only source of information for firms without employees (nonemployers). These nonemployers are not included in our Economic Census or Company Organization Survey. A survey is being conducted to get additional information from larger nonemployers in order to improve our matching and rules used to distinguish between employers and nonemployers. | ||
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