Methods to overcome low coverage of Statistical business register MennatAllah AbouHasswa CAPMAS mamennaallah@gmail.com

Contents Introduction Building SBR Contents of SBR Assessment of SBR Improving SBR Coverage Designing A Questionnaire Establishment census Economic census Conclusion

Coverage includes three key aspects 1 The first is the completeness which means that SBR includes all economic units 2 Coverage is the proportion of total national economic production that the units represent. 3 Content is the set of characteristics such as institutional sector, size, location and registration status of the units contained in the SBR

Building SBR Egypt started to build the statistical business register by holding memorandum of understanding between CAPMAS and social security authority. And receiving framework updated each three months which reached 2,908,918 establishment.

Building SBR Cont., CAPMAS started building database using oracle tool Then classify the establishment according to the business activity and compare this framework with the business survey framework for assessment.

Contents of SBR Insurance number of the establishment, The governorate Code, The establishment name, The center Code, The nature of the economic activity, The legal entity, the building number,

Contents of SBR (cont.,) Commercial registration number, The street number, The main center code, Al shyakha/ village code, Institutional sector No., director in charge, The economic activity, The number of the employees who have insurance, The date of beginning the activity

It has establishments that not exist in the business survey framework Assessment of SBR It has establishments that not exist in the business survey framework Some establishments that not found and also the contact details are not clear

Improving Coverage of SBR Covering all institutions and sectors, especially where administrative records are available The national statistical strategy CAPMAS is conducting now the establishment stage which is the third stage of the population census and preparing to the next economic census Census

Designing a Questionnaire

Establishment Census Egypt establishment census will provide us useful information about The address, the status of the work, The sector of the establishment, Contact details, the nationality of the establishment owner, The type of the used fuel and energy,

Establishment Census Cont., Startup year, legal entity, The number of branches, The value of the investment capital, The number of employees. It will be a basis for the next Egypt economic census

Economic Census The next Egypt economic census 2016/2017 will give us fresh data about the current establishments. It reflects complete image on the structure, characteristics, of the different economic activities. Now CAPMAS is working to develop the upcoming Egyptian economic census to have more important indicators.

Economic census outputs The output of the next census will have many important indicators: The number of establishments according to legal entity. The paid capital. Total number of employees and their salaries. The classification of the total expenditure.

Economic census outputs (cont.,) The value of the commodity and service requirements expenditure, The startup year, The outputs from this economic census will be useful in the business demography which reflects the transfers of business as well as the growth and death of industries.

The national strategy for statistics Conclusion The national strategy for statistics Census SBR

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