1. Cooperation of statistical register and survey departments in Statistics Estonia 22nd Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers Tallinn, september 2010 Katrin Aasmäe Statistics Estonia

2. Statistical Profile Service
Head of service
1 leading statistician — maintenance of frame
(Statistical Profile)
2 senior statisticians:
Enterprise groups
Enterprise demography
1 statistician — data input and validation
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4. Cooperation of BR
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5. 181 inside users of BR by type of rights
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6. Co-operation on compiling and maintaining the frame
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7. Compiling the frame (statistical profile)
Frozen frame is compiled by 1.November and used for producing short-term and annual statistics.
Approval of the protocol for the compilation of the
new frame
Compiling preliminary frame
Compiling final frozen frame
Every year in September the annual meeting on register issues is arranged
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8. Compiling the frame
In 2009 statistical profile served as a frame for close to 90% of all statistical surveys.
For the time of compiling the new frame statisticians user rights are extended.
They are given the right to change also:
- principal activity code
- secondary activities
- status of activity
- type of ownership
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9. Maintaining the frame
All statisticians have the right to change the contact data directly in the register all year around.
Information on changes of stratification data or status of activity is forwarded to the statistician of statistical profile service who will make the changes in operational business register
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10. Maintaining the frame: changes in the frame
In special cases changes (including/excluding units, changes in stratification data) in frozen frame are made if unit’s
- number of persons employed 50 or more
- data influence significantly certain field of statistics
Once a month a working group meets to discuss the proposals to change the frame and take a common decision on proposals.
Working group is compiled of register people, representatives of different fields of statistics and data collection department.
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11. Maintaining the frame: Local kind of activity unit (LoKAU)
Main source of data for LoKAUs is EKOMAR — SBS questionnaire system for non-financial enterprises.
The information on LoKAUs is asked from enterprises with 20 or more persons employed
Updating LoKAUs in BR on the basis of EKOMAR is done by SBS people
LoKAUs populations for accommodation and culture is maintained by BR staff in co-operation with statisticians
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12. Co-operation with production of statistics: Data from statistical surveys
On-line connection between data processing programs used in production of statistics and the business register – current register data available in data processing programs in the next morning.
Data from statistical surveys (quarterly and monthly) are used for actualization of the register:
- number of employees
- number of persons employed
- turnover
Data from surveys are of the highest priority.
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13. Co-operation on determining institutional sector code
The rules for classification of units by Institutional Sectors according to the European System of Accounts were developed in in co-operation with Macroeconomics Statistics Department of that time the.
In 2008 transition to new NACE required revision of these rules.
Institutional sector code of 99% of units is determined automatically.
Exceptions are managed in co-operation with colleagues from National, financial and environmental accounts department
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14. Co-operation on data collection
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15. Co-operation with data collection
BR provides eStat with:
- units’ reporting obligation
- contact data
- principal activity
- status of activity
All changes in BR reflect automatically in eStat
The changes made in eStat will be implemented into the BR through the buffer
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16. Co-operation on other domains in register
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17. Co-operation on enterprise groups: determining UCI
Foreign affiliate trade statistics (FATS) is produced:
- inward FATS by SE – SBS
- outward FATS by Bank of Estonia
For IFATS UCI (ultimate controlling institutional unit) country is determined for all active units in the frame with at least 20 persons employed based on the ownership links and enterprise group data.
Small sub-module in EKOMAR about UCI
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18. Co-operation with Bank of Estonia
Annual meeting on common issues
BR provides every year BE with detailed data on units in the frame and data on units belonging to enterprise groups
BE provides with data on Estonian enterprises subsidiaries abroad
In 2009/2010 started common project on analysis of activity of financial enterprises
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19. Conclusion
The co-operation of statistical register with statisticians has crucial role in order to ensure the quality of the frame
The collaboration has to be regular and consistent
Training, feedback and regular discussions on problems faced, accomplishments and further needs for development will help to make the collaboration more productive
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20. Thank you!