Developing Business Data Collection Nordic Statistical Meeting in Copenhagen August 2010 Theme 3. Statistics Production Johanna Leivo

Overview Enterprise data collection program Tasks and aims Projects Developing Business Data Collection Services for respondents Measurement of the response burden

Statistical Development programs Globalisation of enterprises Enterprise data collection Price and volume measurement system

Tasks and aims of the enterprise data collection programme Coordinate statistics and development projects Identify and evaluate development needs Share information and good practises 2012 decline in response burden business register used as a sample frame sample coordination and optimization standard solutions for data collection

Developing Business Data Collection – Services for respondents

Data collection service The data collection section contains information about the inquiries and interviews 60 independent data collection processes with more than 30 respondents Data collection pages, you can find basic information about the inquiries seek guidance for answering inquiries log in to the inquiry / access to the paper questionnaire find links to inquiry results find contact information of statistics Statistics Finland

Data collection service Statistics Finland Data collections

Enterprise data collection service Allows enterprises to check which Statistics Finland’s data collections concern them Inform enterprises about data collections, response date and changes made to them Aim is to facilitate enterprises the preparation for and responding to its data collections The service contains data collections starting from 2006 New data collections are added to it as samples are drawn for them The service requires password Statistics Finland

Statistics Finland Data collection service

Enterprise data collection service -content Statistics Finland Enterprise data collection service

Developing Business Data Collection – Measurement of the response burden

Response burden (2009) 60 direct data collections annually 71,000 enterprises as respondents 21 % of active enterprises received at least one data collection* 68 % of all enterprise data suppliers received one data collection All enterprises with over 50 employees received at least one questionnaire *active enterprise= liable to pay VAT on business operations, and/or employer enterprise or included in the withholding tax register

Measurement of the response burden Statistics Finland and the National Board of Customs together measured response burden of direct enterprise data inquiries during Report statistical response burden yearly by individual direct enterprise data inquiries to enterprises of different sizes (category of personnel) Repeat response burden measurements regularly Statistics Finland

Response burden 2008 The number of staff-years (Source: Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) estimation about employees average working hour per annum (year 2008), staff-year = total of working hour / 1717,5) Statistics Finland direct business data collections190 staff-years The National Board of Customs: Intrastat210 staff-years Costs (Source: Private sector monthly salaries average, year 2008, in Classification of Occupations: Clerks) Statistics Finland direct business data collections€ 8.3m The National Board of Customs: Intrastat € 9.2m Statistics Finland

Statistics Finland total: Did you find that answering to the inquiry was? Statistics Finland

Statistics Finland total : Sources of response burden Statistics Finland

16 June Hannele Orjala Conclusions The aim is to achieve high-quality and coherent economic statistics and reduce response burden (Strategy for economic statistics and measures proposed for Statistics Finland 2007) Development focus on direct data collections/automated direct data collection services to data providers and enterprises (large) methodological exploitation of administrative data Tools Programme for the development of data collections from enterprises Cooperation with data providers and respondents

Thanks! Questions?? Contact information: Enterprise data collection programme Jukka Oikarinen Services for respondents, response burden Johanna Leivo Coordination of samples Ismo Teikari Usability testing for web surveys Petri Godenhjelm Promoting direct data collection from the information systems of enterprises Juha-Pekka Konttinen System for feedback statistics Olli Hedman Revision Project of Business Register, the use of administrative data Sami Saarikivi Cooperation with large companies Tarja Hatakka Statistics Finland