1. ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION DE COOPÉRATION ET DE DEVELOPMENT ÉCONOMIQUES OECDOCDE Structural Business Statistics at the OECD Morvarid BAGHERZADEH 1 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship STATISTICS DIRECTORATE TRADE & STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC STATISTICS SECTION

2. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 2 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship Structural Business Statistics at the OECD Databases and related metadata: Structural Statistics on Industry and Services (SSIS) Statistics on Enterprises by size-Class (SEC) Methodology work with an SME focus

3. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 3 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship SEC: data coverage The SEC database contains: –Up to 17 years Business statistics starting in 1988 –for all OECD countries –by employment size class –and for 20 variables (Turnover, VA, Wages & Salaries, Employment….) –Metadata (including SME definitions)

4. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 4 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship SEC: examples of use labour productivity by size... Standardised rates based on the SEC database, latest year available

5. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 5 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship SEC: examples of use manufacturing employment... percentages based on the SEC database, published in the SME outlook 2005

6. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 6 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship SEC examples of use: Concentration indices... indices based on the SEC database, presented to the Economic Policy Committee

7. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 7 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship SEC recent developments considerable progress since Istanbul Ministerial (2004) (better timeliness, coverage) greater input into OECD’s analytical and policy work

8. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 8 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship SME statistics Size groups …

9. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 9 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship But much remains to be done: – Comparability? At the national level, diversity of: definitions (e.g. businesses?) data sources (registers, surveys, and thresholds) variables collected industrial classifications At the international level: Insufficient knowledge on SME statistics

10. Statistics Directorate Structural Business Statistics 10 Statistics for Evidence Based Policy Making in Entrepreneurship SBS on-going and future developments Develop indicators on business demography Improve statistics on exports by size class; linking trade & business registers Develop indicators based on firm level data SBS publication 2006