statistik.atSeite 1 Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers Tallinn, September 2010 Development of a business register for administrative purposes by Statistics Austria Norbert Rainer and Stefan Schmidt Session 4: Cooperation with Administrative Sources

statistik.atSeite 2  Administrative burden of businesses  Government business service portal  Legal basis  Characteristics  Basic principles  Constitutive administrative registers  Matching and relations between the registers  Matching and linking challenges  Concluding remarks Content

statistik.atSeite 3  About information obligations of businesses to federal government  About 230 mio. information acts per year  About 4.3 bn EUR costs to businesses ( ~ 1.6% of GDP) Reduction goal: - 25% One measure to reduce the administrative burden “ Government business service portal ” Administrative burden of businesses

statistik.atSeite 4  E-Government: One - Stop - Shop with single-sign-one  Each government organisation has its own business register  Problem: there is no common administrative business register and no common numerical identifier Government business service portal

statistik.atSeite 5 §25 Federal Statistics Law Statistics Austria shall keep a register of enterprises with the following data as regularly supplemented, temporally structured data collection for the purposes of administration and of e-government of the federation and shall provide said register to the institutions of the federal provinces, municipalities, social security institutions and statutory interest group for the performance of statutorily conferred duties. Legal basis

statistik.atSeite 6 Attributes of the business register: Identification characteristics of the enterprise Address characteristics NACE code of the main activity In case of legal entities, partnerships, associations and societies, the persons entitled to represent the entity according to e-government characteristics Data source characteristics Identifiers of the enterprise in the respective administrative registers Identifiers of the enterprise that is assigned by Statistics Austria Characteristics

statistik.atSeite 7  Enterprise according to law is understand as legal unit  Broader coverage than in the statistical business register  No statistical data are to be used for the administrative business register, with the exception of the NACE code  Statistics Austria is not entitled to change any data of the basic administrative registers  Incompatible, contradictory data may be reported back to the holder of the respective administrative register  Last but not least, the quality of the register should be as high as possible: Timeliness Completeness and duplicates Wrong linkages Principles and basic concepts

statistik.atSeite 8  Register of companies  Central register of membership associations  Nine registers of freelancer  Central trade register  Tax register  Administrative agricultural register Constitutive administrative registers

statistik.atSeite 9 Relations between the registers ABR Admin. Business Register ABR Admin. Business Register Admin. Agricultural Register Register of Freelancer SAR Statistical Agricultural Register SAR Statistical Agricultural Register SBR Statistical Business Register SBR Statistical Business Register Tax Register Register of Associations Trade Register Company Register Constitutive Registers Statist. RegistersAdmin. Business Register Attributes Existence

statistik.atSeite 10 Matching and maintenance process Update New unit Review Constitutive Registers Feedback ABR Admin. Business Register ABR Admin. Business Register

statistik.atSeite 11  Clerical checks  Deviating definitions of register entities  Timelines  Correctness and completeness  Database restrictions Matching and linking challenges

statistik.atSeite 12  Required high data quality  Repercussions to the statistical business register  Intensified contacts to the holders of the constitutive registers  Longer-term perspective Concluding remarks

statistik.atSeite 13 Thank you for your attention ! Norbert RAINER mailto: Tel.: Stefan SCHMIDT mailto: Tel.: