National Seminar on Developing a Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and

Supporting Statistics in Turkey

Can DOĞAN10 September 2013

Ankara - Turkey

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STATISTICAL BUSINESS REGISTERS SYSTEM STATISTICAL BUSINESS REGISTERS SYSTEM OF TURKEYOF TURKEY

Department of Register Systems

Business Registers Group

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CONTENT

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BUSINESS REGISTERS Registered units (local units, enterprises, enterprise groups) Contributing to Gross Domestic Product EU standards and norms Classifications Comparability Up to date information

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Before, the source for studies based on businesses is The General Census of Industry and Establishments (last in 2002).

Statistics Law entered into force in 10/11/2005 to comply with the EU regulations and national needs.

This law re-organized the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).

Setting up New Statistical System of Turkey and Business Register (BR), main data source is tax offices (Revenue Administration) since 2006.

CURRENT SITUATION

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• GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE: Whole Turkey

• ACTIVITY SCOPE: Except from agriculture, hunting and forestry; fishing; public administration and defense; compulsory social security sector (to be included by 25 March of 2013), BR covers whole sector and geographically whole Turkey according to NACE Rev. 2

• ECONOMIC SCOPE: All enterprises that contribute to the Gross Domestic Product, their local units and legal units that make up these enterprises and enterprise groups

SCOPE

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VARIABLES

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Tax office records

Social Security Institution

Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen

Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization

Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications

Ministry of National Education

General Directorate of Public Accounts

Internal Surveys (Structural Business Statistics, Short Terms Statistics, Financial Intermediary Institutions Surveys)

Profiling

DATA SOURCES

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FRAMEWORKMinistry of

Finance (MoF)Records

(monthly)

TRANS Table

BR Local Unit Table BR Enterprise Unit TableBR Legal Unit Table

Electronic File Transfer

BR FRAME (annual)

MoF Identification Table

MoF Conversion of Legal Status Table

MoF Address Table

MoF Economic Activity Table

MoF TaxPayer Information Table

BR Studies (imputation etc. )

- Financial Intermediary Institutions Survey (activity) - Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications (activity)- General Directorate of Public Accounts

Annual Industry and Service Statistics Survey(address, activity, turnover, the number of persons employed)

MoF Subsidiary Information Table

MoF Tax Type Information Table

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USERS OF BR

Internal Users: Structural Business Statistics, Short Terms Statistics, Financial Intermediary Institutions,

External Users: Public institutions, private companies, academicians, researchers etc.

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THE CURRENT STUDIES

Improvement of BR System

Enterprise Group Study

Business Demography Study

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ENTERPRISE GROUPS

Compulsory to be kept in national BR

Lack of administrative sources and quality

Negotiations with other administrative bodies

Field Study - since 2008 about 1800 units.

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BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHY

Lack of administrative sources and quality Harmonized Data Collection for 2008, 2009 and 2010

Negotiations with other administrative bodies

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FUTURE PLANS

Improvement of BR System

Inclusion of Agriculture sector in BR within the time period defined in BR Regulation

Inclusion institutional sector classification within the period defined in BR Regulation

To continue negotiations with other institutions in order to increase BR data quality and so enterprise groups and business demography.

National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the

2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

THANK YOUTHANK YOU

National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the

2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey