Dissemination and statistical use of Business Register data Conference of European statisticians...

Dissemination and statistical use of Business Register data

Conference of European statisticiansGroup of experts of Business Registers

Luxembourg, 6-7 O2ctober 2009

Oct 2009 2Tuula Viitaharju

Business Register in Finland - duties

Compile statistics concerning business population and business demography

Base register for production of statistics Provide chargeable information services to outside users

Future plans


Business Register in Finland - 40 years (1)

Main phases of development 1954, 1964 business censuses

output: statistics on business population

1970’s, regular register maintenance, main ideas: statistics of business population contributing NA statistics



1980 - 1995 intensive development phase:increasing coveragedevelopment of register based statistics productiondevelopment of base registers and business

identification codesincreasing use of administrative filesgrowth of chargeable information services

background: early phases of information society, rationality in sharing

data on basic units with all users in society


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from 1995 on, topics like:EU regulationsquality questions, small area statisticsdynamics, complex business structures, globalisationenterprise group unitresponse burden

Annex 1 in my paper: milestones in the development of Business Register


Business register, number of business enterprises- increasing coverage

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trade register trade reg + employers all business enterprises all business ent. + farms


main BR duties 1: Compiling statistics


Compiling and dissemination of statistics - business population

from Business Register production database -> we produce annual data files for source of annual statistics = a kind of frozen version of BR for each reference year

file of enterprisesfile of local units

threshold: 0,5 employment and 6 months activity period (comparable statistics over time)

it means more workload to produce the annual data file


Compiling and dissemination of statistics - business population

statistics by NACE, by region, by legal form, by size category of employment and turnover, variables: employment, turnover, sum of wages and salaries in StatFin database: enterprises, local units

analysispublished in Statistics Finland home pages(EN) (FI)paper publication ‘Enterprises in Finland’

http://pxweb2.stat.fi/database/StatFin/yri/syr/010_yr_tol08/010_yr_tol08_fi.asp

http://pxweb2.stat.fi/database/StatFin/yri/syr/020_top_tol08/020_top_tol08_fi.asp

http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/syr/tie_en.html

http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/syr/2007/01/syr_2007_01_2009-02-10_kat_001.html


Compiling and dissemination of statistics - business demography

from Business Register production database it is compiled quarterly statistics on ‘Enterprise openings and closures’

statistics by NACE, by region, by legal form, variable: number of enterprises in StatFin -database

analysispublished in Statistics Finland home pages(EN) (FI)

business demography statistics according to EU harmonised method are not yet published in Finland

http://pxweb2.stat.fi/database/StatFin/yri/aly/aly_fi.asp

http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/aly/tie_en.html

http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/aly/kat.html


main BR duties 2: Business Register use in statistics production process

the most important role of Business Register


Business Register use in statistics production BR database collects and merges plenty of administrative data as

common frame for statistics (annex 2 of the paper) BR is important tool when linking administrative and survey data BR is survey frame for all direct data collections BR is data source in register based statistics production

it provides basic units, classifications, employment, turnover as an example: recently SBS in Finland gave up collecting and estimating

employment data for itself and started to use exclusively BR employment variable

Tool of profiling activities Tool for enterprise respondent service Tool in statistics on globalisation - enterprise groups


Sharing Business Register data - in-house

BR database is in wide use inside Statistics Finland about 300 users from economic as well as from social

statistics on-line access or reading by batch programs use is supported by BR metadata kept available in

Statistics Finland (quality reports, time table of BR updating, variable descriptions, process descriptions)


In-house co-operation, examples

common data collection with FATS-statistics on foreign owned enterprises (MNEs in Finland)

common data collection with regional employment statistics on multi-site enterprises (their local units and employment-local unit links)

profiling large and complex enterprises - the network coordinator is working in BR – profiling activities started in 2008


Enterprise respondent register

contains information from all Statistics Finland business data collections

respondent service about Statistics Finland data collection

enables measuring response burden


main BR duties 3: Sharing Business Register data with outside users


Data dissemination as chargeable services tailor made statistics unit level data

in standard formad-hoc information servicesdefining business populations according to customer

wishesupdating customer registers periodically, etc.

mass data deliveries for further disseminationweb based enterprise lists, business portals

BR service database: monthly deliveries available of whole populations and all public variables


Boundary condition for unit level data dissemination

The Statistics Act includes specific provisions on the public data items of the Business Register, the list include:

BI-code, name, postal address and code, telephone number

Legal form, ownership, activity code, domicile, languagePersonnel, size class of personnel (local unit), size class

of turnoverCode of import or export Relationships of enterprise groups

http://tilastokeskus.fi/meta/lait/tilastolaki_en.html


Problems of unit level data dissemination

Confidentiality in large and small enterpriseswith large enterprises: threat of revealing sensitive

information connected to competition with other enterprises

with small enterprises (like farms etc): threat of revealing sensitive information connected to proximity of private and business life; family and enterprise mixed

Not all enterprises are happy about data sharing, but only small minority is actually opposing


How to manage the contradictions

open administration, in general public base registers are widely accepted in Finland

thanks to well known base register co-operation among Finnish administration (a special board)

Statistic Act strictly regulates the list of public data the principles of unit level data dissemination are clearly

told to respondents in survey letters and in Statistics Finland Internet pages


Benefits of unit level data dissemination

feedback from data users and enterprises themselves increased knowledge about BR and BR data quality route to disseminate NACE Rev 2 saving taxpayers money, co-operation helps whole

administration release of local unit level data (BR is the only source that

covers all sectors) – useful for regional organisations saving response burden


Customers of outside services

large private companies, banking and insurance sector research institutes, schools single researches public sector (government, ministries, regional planning and

local organisations) private sector 70 %, public sector 30 %

Customer relations in outside servicesBR service team, 4 personsBusiness Register Service Guide

http://tilastokeskus.fi/tup/yritysrekisteri/palveluopas_en.html


Statistics Finland’s Research Laboratory

mainly for economic research purposes access to encrypted micro level data contain several data sets including Business Register data

(enterprise, local units, enterprise groups)

Remote on-line access under development


Future plans


The System of Economic Statistics

International statistical system

Environmentalstatistics

Business statistics

(STS, SBS)

Labour statistics

Governmentfinance

National accounts

Foreign trade

Pricesand costs

Other economicstatistics

Business register

Economic statistics

Science,technology, innovation

Operating environment

Social statistics


Current strategic goals for Business Register

globalisation - to cover MNEs and to operate in the EGR network

means in improving coherence of economic statistics efficiency of production - the BR as a common frame of

business statistics a more real time Business Register with interactive nature

present data architecture originates from 1997


Business Register redesign project

Definition stage ongoing 2009 Goals

to establish a data warehouse solution for business statistics

to define interactive BR processes inside Statistics Finland

to define well operating system for administrative data capture including metadata management

to define changes in Business Register data content


Thank you for your attention!

Tuula ViitaharjuHead, Business Register

Statistics [email protected]: +358 9 1734 3378

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