Statistical Business Register– the Estonian experience 22nd Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers Tallinn, 27-30 September 2010 Marielle Borthwick

Content Registering business in Estonia History of the Statistical Business Register Coverage and Structure Classification Data sources and users Survey frame – Statistical Profile Business Demography Enterprise Groups Register statistics and dissemination Future developments 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Registering a company in Estonia Registering a company can be done electronically within an hour, successful registration is confirmed via email generally within 24 hours (checks for suitability of name) Step-by-step demo makes the process simple and understandable It is also possible to register business at the notary’s office, time depends on notary’s appointment schedule (varies between days and weeks) Taxes can be declared and annual accounts report can be submitted electronically 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

History of the Statistical Business Register 1992–1994 — the legal Business Register as the sampling frame for economic statistics 1994 — establishment of the Statistical Business Register ( the Register) 1999–2002 — re-engineering the Register from FoxPro to ORACLE 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Coverage Units included in the statistical register: enterprises, sole proprietors, non-profit associations and foundations, central government and local government institutions non-resident enterprises, which pay taxes in Estonia Units not covered: foreign embassies and other extra-territorial organizations and bodies 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Population of the register 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Kind-of-Activity Unit Local Kind-of-Activity Unit Enterprise Group Statistical units Enterprise Local Unit Kind-of-Activity Unit Local Kind-of-Activity Unit Enterprise Group 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Structure of the register 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Classification Main classifications: Legal form – 16 types Form of ownership – 4 types Economic activity – NACE (EMTAK) Institutional sector – 35 divisions 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Data sources 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Survey frame – Statistical Profile a database of economically active units a sampling frame for all economic statistics based on the Business Register for Statistical Purposes compiled by November every year used for forming samples for the structural statistics of the same year and for the short-term statistics of the next year all economically active units and all units active during at least a part of the reference period are included 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Units in Statistical Profile by legal form 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Business Demography Business Demography – information about enterprises’ births, deaths and survivals 2003 — feasibility study 2004-2007 — projects on harmonised data collection 2005 — implementation of the sole proprietors data Since 2007 — project of BD on employer enterprises Since 2008 — data collection according to the SBS regulation Since 2010 — production of BD data by NACE Rev.2 Planned: implementation of Quality report on BD, production of more recent business demography data In 2008 nearly as many enterprises ceased to exist as were born. 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Enterprise Groups Included in the register - information on foreign controlled EGs of which the group heads are situated outside Estonia and all-resident EGs Data sources - public and other databases, data on foreign subsidiaries of Estonian enterprises are currently not available in any administrative source 2004 – implementation of EGs into the register Since 2005 – production and publication of all-resident and truncated (foreign owned) EGs Since 2008 – participation in EuroGroups Register ESSNet project Planned: implementation of Estonian EGs with subsidiaries abroad 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Number of Enterprises in Enterprise Groups 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Register statistics and dissemination Statistical Profile Business Demography Enterprise Groups Dissemination: Statistical database on Statistics Estonia website "Statistical Yearbook of Estonia" (in print and on CD) Bulletin “Cities and Rural Municipalities in Figures” Bulletin “Business” (Business demography data and Enterprise Groups data) 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Future developments SRS – Unified System of Statistical Registers Coverage: persons, economic units, agricultural households, buildings and spatial units The purpose: - to create and maintain links between statistical units; - to create frozen frames or profiles; - to create and maintain survey populations; - to produce output for queries; - to produce statistics on economic units, business demography and enterprise groups. 27-30 September 2010 Tallinn

Thank you!