TEC Jon Mortensen EU Twinning Project: Globalisation Statistics Copenhagen, 25 August 2015

 Datasets are compiled by linking micro data from trade registers with business registers  Aims at describing trade flows from the view point of enterprises:  Question is not “what do countries trade?” but “what kind of enterprises trade?” (size, activity, ownership etc.) Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) 2

 First discussions started in late 1990s  However, more concrete objectives and methodological development during last 10 years  Methodology and indicators developed by Eurostat in co-operation with the EU Member States  The revised Intrastat and Extrastat Regulations include a module on TEC  Mandatory compilation from reference year 2009  Currently data from  data collected on voluntary basis TEC: project history 3

 Mandatory  Trade by activity (NACE) and enterprise size class  Concentration of trade by activity  Trade by partner country and activity  Trade by number of partner countries and activity  Trade by commodity (CPA) and activity  Voluntary  Trade by type of trader (one-way, two way)  Trade by ownership  Trade by export intensity  Trade by activity sectors  Trade by partner countries and size-class TEC: indicators 4

TEC: General findings 5 Trade is concentrated among large firms (export value by firm size class in employees)

Number of Danish enterprises with trade/ percentage of total TEC: Danish results 6

TEC: Danish results – 7 Exporters by size-class

Number of danish enterprises trading with Ukraine (2013) What about Ukraine? 8 Exporters Total779 Top 5 industries Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles259 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.112 Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles83 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products44 Manufacture of food products38 Importers Total315 Top 5 industries Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles111 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles29 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.27 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products17 TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE16

 Still negotiated but…  SDMX (from 2015?)  Early publication of preliminary data to be revised later -Currently t+18 months, may become t+10 and t+16  Voluntary tables may become mandatory  Trade in services (STEC)  TEC likely to become more important/ attract more focus (from Eurostat, other DCs, OECD) …  …and more demanding to compile Future/FRIBS 9

 Methodological issues  Complex enterprises, demographic events  analytical pitfalls  Revisions  Time consuming as tables are “handmade”  Confidentiality  Non-automated, time consuming, sensitive to multidimensional disaggregation  Data timeliness  t+18, t+10?, t+16?, Quality?  Resources  No additional burden on reporters. Producers, however… TEC: General challenges 10

How to compile TEC: Data Sources (Compilers Guide p. 47) 11

How to compile TEC: Populations (Compilers Guide p. 32) 12

 Third step: Tables  See excel sheet  Fouth step: Complete the collection template  See excel sheet  Fifth step: confidentiality  Sixth step: transmission to Eurostat How to compile TEC: Futher steps (Compilers Guide p. 48) 13

…… TEC: What can you do? 14