September 2011 Folie 1© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Joint UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Meeting of experts on Business Register

Paris, 14-15 September 2011

Session 2Reducing respondent burden – the role of statistical business registers

Robin Lorenz/Roland Sturm, Business Register Federal Statistical Office of Germany

The role of the Business Register in the use of Admin Data for short term statistics

September 2011 Folie 2© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Short term statistics in Germany –questioning the traditional approach

Till beginning of last decade: Stove pipe statistics for different branches Primary surveys with some ten thousand respondents each

Challenges of the 1990s: extension of STS to service sectors

No political support for additional surveys Response burden prominent topic on the public agenda

New political mandate for official statistics: Administrative Data Use Act in 2003 Provided monthly access to AdminData from two sources

September 2011 Folie 3© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Primary surveys

Information demand

Variables

Group of respondents

Survey frequency

Survey/Reporting period

September 2011 Folie 4© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Information potential

Variables

Group of respondents

Survey frequency

Survey/Reporting period

Admin Data

September 2011 Folie 5© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Testing Admin Data for STS in Germany

Employment data Provided monthly by the Federal Employment Office Number of employees subject to social insurance contribution and

number of marginal employees File with 3 different reference days at the 15th of each month (t+60, t+90

and t+180)

VAT data Provided monthly by the 16 tax authorities of the German states VAT declaration at t+40, delivery to FSO at the 20th of each month (i.e.

t+50) Reporting period: VAT > 1.000 €: Quarter (10 % of the turnover)

VAT > 7.500 €: Month (90% of the turnover)

September 2011 Folie 6© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Use of Admin data for STS: results of testing

Economic sector NACE –section

Time- liness

Perio-dicity

Usabi-lity

Additional survey

Begin of use

Transport, storage, communication and other business services

H, J, parts of M and N

t+60 quarterly yesTO > 15 Mill € or PE > 250

2007

Crafts ---- t+60 quarterly yesSolely

Admin Data2008

Building installation and completion

432, 433 (part of F) t+60 quarterly yes PE > 20 2011

Trade of motor vehicles,wholesale trade

45 t+60 monthly yesTO > 10 Mill € or PE > 100

2012

Trade of motor vehicles,wholesale trade

46 t+60 monthly yesTO > 20 Mill € or PE > 100

2012

Acommodation and food service activities

I t+60 monthly no ---- ----

Retail trade 47 t+30 monthly no ---- ----

September 2011 Folie 7© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Reduction of response burden per year

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

180000

Other Servieces Crafts Wholesale trade Trade of motor vehicles Building installation andcompletion

vorher nachher

September 2011 Folie 8© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Reduction of response burden per year

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

180000

Other Servieces Crafts Wholesale trade Trade of motor vehicles Building installation and

completion

before Admin Data use after Admin Data use

September 2011 Folie 9© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

The role of the statistical Business Register

data available in the statistical office

administrative data in the business register

survey data of

thestatistical office

statistical business register

core ofbusiness register

register unit

1

3

2

administrative data already

used by the statistical

office

register information about survey participation

5

4

September 2011 Folie 10© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Admin Data Editing process for STS

Monthly STS – Turnover Extract

Annual BRtime slice

EmploymentData Base

Monthly Employ-ment Data

Business Register (BR)

Enhanced STS – Employment Extract

Business Rela-ted services (quarterly)

Specific Admin Data sets for STS

Monthly STS – Employment Extract

Enhanced STS – Turnover Extract

TurnoverData Base

Monthly turnover tax files

Crafts (quarterly)

Building instal-lation/completion

(quarterly)

Wholesale Trade

(monthly)

Trade of motor vehicles

(monthly)

September 2011 Folie 11© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Utilising the Business Register I

Managing of the editing process

Linking of units from the two Admin sources:

prerequisite for mix models of survey and AdminData use

Identification of units belonging to the crafts sector:

Prerequisite for AdminDatra use when the target population can not be identified in the Admin Data itself

September 2011 Folie 12© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Utilising the Business Register II

Reducing deficiencies in the Admin Data

Assignment of Activity code:

Business Register uses best of different available information

Information about VAT groups:

Business Register carries out VAT breakdown to single enterprises by a multiple regression model

September 2011 Folie 13© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Time lag Short term statistics and register data

t2010

2011

2009 t

ime

slic

e BR

SBS s

urv

eys

2010

register data 2009 (NACE, crafts, turnover, employment)

2010 provisional

Permanent updates of adresses, survey information

2011

September 2011 Folie 14© Federal Statistical Office, IV-A Business Register, Roland Sturm

Thank you for your attention

Roland SturmFederal Statistical Office of Germanyemail: roland.sturm@destatis.de