Statistical Business Register in the CIS countries

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Statistical Business Register in the CIS
countries

• 21st meeting of the Wiesbaden Group
• November 2008, Paris
• Presentation by Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich, UNECE
• (vitalia.gaucaite_at_unece.org)

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Overview

• 1. Use of statistical business registers (BR)
• 2. Sources for statistical BR
• 3. Activity classifications in use
• 4. Coverage of statistical units
• 5. Enterprise groups - the new challenge

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1. Use of statistical BRs
Widespread For grossing up survey results,
survey editing imputation, for data tabulation
and as a source for RD statistics Rarely used
For production of data on business demography,
for deriving economic statistics
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1. Use of statistical BRs (continued)

• Progress can be seen, albeit indirectly
• Gradual expansion of the list of recorded
  variables i.e. the date of cessation of
  activities, not recorded before, is mentioned
  among the variables in six countries in 2008
  Survey
• Improved coverage and timeliness of various
  records the reference periods of reported data
  are more recent in the 2008 Survey
• Actions/plans of implementing revised economic
  activity classifications - the gradual approach
  in the implementation, use of double recording
  and back-casting collaboration with other
  register-keepers

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2. Variety of sources for statistical BRs
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2. Variety of sources for statistical BRs
(continued)

• Changes recorded by the 2008 Survey
• Single administrative BR 3 countries
• Surveys on BR update - 2 countries
• Tax authorities data 2 countries
• Central bank data - 1 country
• No change regarding the use of Published
  accounts, Chamber of Commerce or Customs
  registries

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3. Activity coding
Implementing new economic activity classification
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3. Activity coding (continued)

• Implementing new economic activity
  classification
• Automatic recoding is expected to cover from 25
  to 35 of the statistical units, while the rest
  will be recoded manually
• Double coding for at least three years is
  foreseen
• Intentions to coordinate introduction of the
  Revised activity classification in the Single
  administrative business registers and other
  administrative sources

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4. Coverage of statistical units

• Percentage change of unit population, BRQ 2006 -
  BRQ 2008

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4. Coverage of statistical units (continued)

• Average number of occupied persons per registered
  enterprise

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4. Coverage of statistical units (continued)

• Registered enterprises, BRQ-2008 by sections of
  NACE Rev. 1

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4. Coverage of statistical units (continued)

• In general
• Many countries have a good coverage of the
  incorporated units
• The coverage of small businesses and individual
  entrepreneurs is rather insufficient
• There are special registers for the agricultural
  sector in some countries
• Specific
• In Belarus, Moldova and the Russian Federation
  the legal unit is identical to the enterprise
• In Armenia, Georgia and Moldova local units are
  not yet included in the statistical BR

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5. Enterprise groups the new challenge

• Enterprise groups (EGR) be it all-resident or
  multinational ones - are not yet monitored for
  statistical BR purpose
• Few exceptions as reported in the 2006 and 2008
  UNECE Surveys by
• Kyrgyzstan
• Russian Federation
• Tajikistan

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5. Enterprise groups the new challenge(continue
d)

• Kyrgyzstans information refers to
  foreign-controlled enterprises/legal units
  without explicit link to any EGR. It is
  exclusively based on administrative sources. No
  entries in the statistical BR.
• The Russian Federation reports only on the
  overall number of all-resident enterprise groups
• Total 44219 EGRs incorporating 401850 legal
  units (01.01.2007)
• Few basic variables are recorded in statistical
  BR
• Main source Single administrative Business
  register
• Multinational EGRs to be included starting 2009
• Tajikistans statistical BR contains some
  information on the multinational EGRs sourced
  from both administrative sources and statistical
  surveys.

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5. Enterprise groups the new challenge(continue
d)

• Multinational Enterprise Groups

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5. Enterprise groups the new challenge(continue
d)

• Harmonising methodological approaches with those
  accepted internationally is the way ahead
• Countries should look for best practices on
• profiling of large and complex enterprises
• delineation of enterprise groups
• reviewing principal and secondary activity coding
  
• cooperation with central banks, commercial data
  providers, etc.

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• Thank you!