1. Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Michel Di Pietro, Ruth Meier Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) Developing an integrated system of micro- and macroeconomic statistics in Switzerland Friends of the Chair Group on Integrated Economic Statistics Bern, Switzerland, 6 - 8 June 2007

2. 2 UNSD / FSO Workshop on Integrated Economic Statistics, Bern, June 2007 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Why to reform economic statistics in Switzerland ? International comparability Administrative burden on enterprises Consistency of micro- and macroeconomic statistics

3. 3 UNSD / FSO Workshop on Integrated Economic Statistics, Bern, June 2007 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Key objectives of the reform Integrated system versus “stovepipe-approach” Needs and demands of partners Costs of the statistical information production process

4. 4 UNSD / FSO Workshop on Integrated Economic Statistics, Bern, June 2007 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO How to get there ? Nine building blocks to create the integrated system: 1. To identify and classify partners and needs 2. To set standards for economic statistics 3. To develop working methods that comply with the strategic objectives and program of FSO

5. 5 UNSD / FSO Workshop on Integrated Economic Statistics, Bern, June 2007 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO How to get there ? 5. To further develop the business register 6. To further develop the profiling 4. To foster the use of secondary data sources (administrative and register data)

6. 6 UNSD / FSO Workshop on Integrated Economic Statistics, Bern, June 2007 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO How to get there ? 7. To implement a samples management system 8. To break away from the “one statistics – one survey” pattern

7. 7 UNSD / FSO Workshop on Integrated Economic Statistics, Bern, June 2007 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO How to get there ? 9. To set the informational output of economic statistics through (i) a process for identifying information needs (ii) an output database recording statistical information to be delivered

8. 8 UNSD / FSO Workshop on Integrated Economic Statistics, Bern, June 2007 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO How to identify information needs Relevant issues in public discussion List of relevant areas of statistical information needs Prioritization of relevant statistical information fields Decision on relevant statistical information fields List of potential areas of statistical information needs Government policy objectives Information needs of Administration Information needs of FSO / users Complexity assessment Existing data assessment Assessment of existing FSO data Policy relevance Sustainability of information …. Availability of finance and human resources in FSO budget Priorities of Government and FSO management