1. Fourth Project Support Meeting and Workshop on Informal Sector Statistics
13-15 November 2017
Bangkok, Thailand

2. Statistical Business Registers in Myanmar
Ms. Thet Htar Nwe
Assistant Director
Central Statistical Organization
Ministry of Planning and Finance
Myanmar

3. Myanmar Business Survey –MBS (2015)
Coverage : Entire country, all states and regions
Sampling Method : Stratified Random Sampling Design
Sample Size : 14331
Reference period : April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015
Collect data on businesses’ income, expenses, inventories, assets, etc.
Annual repetition is planned.
Representative: 126,000
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4. Objectives
to address these limitations and to provide comprehensive economic statistics on the private sector of Myanmar,
to inform both government policy-makers and non-government stakeholders, and
to provide a key data source for the calculation of national accounts.
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5. Myanmar Business Survey –MBS (2015)
Jointly implemented by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) and Planning Department (PD) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance (MoPF)
Capacity building, technical assistance and financial support during the survey by UNDP
ISTAT also provided capacity building and technical support.
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6. Yangon and Mandalay regions are two growth poles and the others like Sagaing, Magwe, Thanintharyi, Mon, Bago and Ayeyarwaddy are growth centres.
Necessary infrastructure, raw materials, Inclusive production technologies spread, Product Quality Promotion, Ensuring market for local markets to reinforce the process.
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7. Registration Status (%) economic sector and registration type
Myanmar Business Registrations are not Single Window, respectively being much different Department. Most of registrations are in the Municipal Office, Second registrations are various relevant ministries. There are low registration in DICA found .We need to have Business Registration Manual .
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8. Main Responsible Government Agencies for Business Register in Myanmar
No.
Organization
Role
Available data 1.
Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA)
Relevant Agency
List of Registered Companies in DICA 2.
City Development Committees (CDCs)/ Township Development Committees
List of Establishments applying for license at CDCs 3.
Directorate of Industrial Supervision and Inspection (DISI)
List of Registered Industrial Enterprises 4.
Other relevant agencies (i.e., Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, Ministry of Health etc.,)
Relevant Agencies
Lists of Establishments applying for license under respective Ministries
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9. Why we need SBR?
Diverse business registration according to type of industries
Diverse licensing agencies
Unable to use industrial classification
Not familiar with tax ID
Difficult to get survey frame lists for all type of industries
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10. Faced Issues Lack key data items required for SBR
Lack of data to link with industrial classification (ISIC)
Lack of comprehensive list of business
Lack human resources to create a unit for SBR
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11. Development of SBR in Myanmar
Overall Plan for a Sustainable SBR
One of the outcomes of the CSO/UNDP collaboration on an industry survey was a clearly defined need for a better frame for economic surveys. As such a review was conducted and the most sustainable solution identified was (in brief)
Use Municipalities tax collection records as the data source
CSO combines data into single survey frame / SBR
CSO provides this frame to other agencies involved in economic statistics and uses it to run its own economic survey program
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12. Overall tasks Required
The development of an SBR for the CSO can be broken down into three main areas;
Data Collection
System Development
Regular Maintenance of SBR
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13. Resources, Tasks and Timelines
CSO Responsibilities & Resources
Create dedicated SBR team / unit (1 manager, 3-4 staff) to engage in the following tasks
To engage with municipalities and provide training and other support
To lead the engagement with the municipalities and to assist in the drafting of the Strategy
To start processing data from municipalities. This will inform strategy and enable testing on frame with possible use for economic surveys
To be available to attend training course on SBR’s and data maintenance
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14. ESCAP Responsibilities & Resources
ESCAP to provide an in –Country consultant to sit in the CSO SBR team. Length of contract to be determined
Provide training and materials to SBR Team. (General SBR requirements & purpose, utilizing administrative data, ISIC classifications, survey frame and sample design)
Provide SBR expert to assist in: forms design, data requirements, technical advice
Provide support for translation of key documents and processes
(Optional) Provide a programmer to develop data collection processes & possible data-base management system for Municipality.
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15. Outcomes from Collaboration
The CSO will have a team that understands the requirements of an effective and sustainable SBR
The CSO will be receiving data in format that is fit for purpose and covers all key data items required for effective survey operations and will also have a effective plan to expand their data collection
The CSO will also have a plan to develop and implement an effective SBR system-possibly part of the ADB SBR program or through other means
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16. Overall Plan for a Sustainable SBR
One of the outcomes of the CSO/UNDP collaboration on an industry survey was a clearly defined need for a better frame for economic surveys. As such a review was conducted and the most sustainable solution identified was (in brief)
Use Municipalities tax collection records as the data source
CSO combines data into single survey frame / SBR
CSO provides this frame to other agencies involved in economic statistics and uses it to run its own economic survey program.
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17. ESCAP and CSO Collaboration
Responsibility of Agencies
CSO
ESCAP
Timing
Data Collection
1 to 18 months
Systems Development
12 to 24 months
Regular Maintenance of SBR
Ongoing
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18. Proposed Plan of ESCAP and CSO Collaboration
The primary focus should be on working with municipalities (number to be confirmed later) to;
Review and enhance their data collection to ensure that it meets all the needs of the CSO. This will involve reviewing their current data collection and data storage processes.
Sign MOU’s with the Municipalities to ensure regular data transfer to the CSO
Support the Municipalities in terms of system to record and transfer data. Including training on data collection, processing and ISIC coding.
Develop on SBR team within the CSO which has an effective understanding of SBR’s, key concepts and the requirements of building an SBR in Myanmar
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19. Overall tasks required
Outputs from Collaboration
CSO
Responsibilities
ESCAP
Timeline
Developing a Municipal engagement strategy- That is a list of Municipalities to be targeted considering size and representativeness, how they should be targeted, who should be engaged with documents explaining the project / SBR, standardized MOU’s for collaboration and reasons for collaboration.
CSO Staff to support – especially in drafting documents.
SBR Consultant to lead.
1-6 months
Defined data requirement & Standardized forms- A review of municipalities data collection processes / forms contrasted with CSO data requirements. This process will help develop the municipal engagement strategy, the design of the SBR process and material sent to the municipalities.
1-3 months
Implement the municipal Engagement Program- Once designed and agreed to their will need to be an implementation of the program. Given the nature of the work this would be best led by the CSO with support from ESCAP. Details to be worked out during the drafting of the municipal engagement strategy.
CSO to lead and staff
Consultant to support CSO SBR team.
3-12 months
Design of SBR Process- This is an end to end document which will explain the data collection, cleaning, imputation, quality assurance, and survey frame production process in detail. Such detail will include data items, unit structure, sample design and will help inform the design of the SBR System.
Documents to be joint project. CSO staff to lead.
6-18 months
Design of Municipal Registration System (Optional)- A method of ensuring the municipalities systems meet CSO requirements while encouraging the Municipality’s to work with us would be to develop a system for the municipalities for managing business registration and tax payment. Recent discussion with Yangon and Mandalay have indicated that this would be favorably received. More investigation on system requirements from the municipalities is needed before we can confirm that this is an option.
CSO staff to test, engages with councils, support the consultant and draft documents.
Consultant to design and build system.
6-12 months
Testing of Survey Frame (Optional)- Testing the data from the municipalities in a survey would be highly beneficial. There are several economic related surveys planned over the next year in Myanmar and using the data to provide a sample or subsample would be highly beneficial for the project and act as a proof of concept for the project.
Consultant / UN staff to support
12-18 months
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20. Why the development of SBR become priority?
A common problem of all past survey of business is the lack of reliable lists of business
To establish single window registration
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21. Thank You
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