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BRAZILIAN BUSINESS REGISTER CEMPRE Progress Report
Maria Luiza Zacharias - IBGE, Brazil 17th Round
Table on Business Survey Frames Rome, 26-31 Oct,
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INTRODUCTION

• A new organization model was implemented for
  business statistics production in 1996
• It was decided not to conduct economic census
  every 5 years anymore
• Alternatively, there would be a business
  register annually updated by the surveys and by
  the administrative records.

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INTRODUCTION

• The new business register - CEMPRE - supplies the
  frames for enterprise sample selection while the
  surveys feedback the information into the
  register.

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The Central Business Register (CEMPRE) is a
comprehensive database maintained by the
Brazilian Statistical and Geographical Institute
IBGE.

• CEMPRE

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CEMPRE

• All legal units
• All economic activities
• Registered by the Tax office.
• Tax identifier CEMPRE Identity code

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CONTENTS

• Two hierarchical ordered statistical units
  Enterprise and Local Unit.
• Companies, partnerships, sole proprietors,
  government institutions and non-profit
  institutions.

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Maintenance- Main sources

• Survey data feedback
• Social Security Administrative Record RAIS.
• Annual update.

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Maintenance

• RAIS
• name
• location
• type of business activity (industry code)
• number of employees,
• total of salaries paid
• information on new enterprises created.
• No access to Income Tax Files.

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Statistical and legal units

• Statistical unit legal unit

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Key-number identification

• All major Admin Records use a unique key-code
  inhibiting duplicate enterprises and matching
  errors in the BR.

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National Economic Activities Classification- CNAE

• CNAE - comparable to ISIC Rev.3,
• Used by all administrative records
• IBGE is responsible for its definition and
  maintenance (CNAE)
• CEMPRE - Brazilian best source to provide
  industry codes.

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Figures

• 7,5 million enterprises
• 8,3 million local units
• 4,7 million active enterprises in 2001
• 90 business enterprises
• 10 public organizations and non-profit
  institutions
• 32,5 million people engaged in 2001
• 81 employees
• 19 owners or partners

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BR Statistics and other outputs

• Annual statistics on the BR data are being
  published since 1996
• In September, 2003, we released the 2001
  Business Register Statistics.

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Demands for Business Register data

• CEMPRE has been used as a reference tool to
  statistical analysis, and to generate lists of
  units not only for business for surveys
• agricultural, health, association membership,
  surveys
• non-profit institutions studies
• National Consumer Price Index
• Demand by other institutions seeking to improve
  the industry code.

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Business Registers Meeting

• In 2002, the First National Meeting of Business
  Registers and Administrative Records Managers.
• In 2003, planning the 2nd Meeting.

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Industrial Classification

• In January, 2003 - A revised industrial
  classification system - CNAE 1.0 - based on the
  ISIC Revision 3.1.
• A major re-coding task is an ongoing action.

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Issues and problems resolved during past year

• Improvements on
• data editing procedures
• quality on SIC codes

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Issues and plans unresolved during the last year

• Treatment of mergers and acquisitions data
• Large enterprise database,
• ... mainly due to the small staff!

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Future plans

• The study of foreign ownership of enterprises
• The implementation of the enterprise group
  level
• The development of a new system for the BR

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Future plans

• Continue the business demography studies based on
  Business Register data
• Implement a methodology to produce quality
  indicators of the BR
• Develop a dissemination regulation of BR data.