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Editing Strategies for VAT Data

Peter Kruiskamp

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Contents

• Introduction• Data conversion• Usage of VAT data

• Present• Future

• Editing strategy• Micro editing

• Fiscal Units• Statistical Units

• Macro editing

• Conclusions

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Introduction

• Response Burden in Economical Statistics

• Turnover in Short-Term Statistics: VAT data

• Fiscal Units vs. Statistical Units

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Data Conversion

• VAT-declaration

• Conversion

Fiscal Unit Fiscal Person

Fiscal Person Legal Unit .

Legal Unit Statistical Unit

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Usage of VAT data

Present: Auxiliary to Survey data

• Plausibility check

• Correction

• Imputation

• Suppletion

• Weighing

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Usage of VAT data

Future: Replacing Survey Data

• Small- and mediumsized enterprises

• Consequences on editing methods

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Editing strategy

Micro editing• Fiscal Units

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Editing strategy

• Statistical Units

• Parameter optimisation• VAT-assessments

Macro editing

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Conclusions

Using VAT data for Short-Term Statistics

is not straightforward

• Conversion

• Data editing