1. Michael Biddington, UN ESCAP Statistics Division, Biddington@un.org
Roles of the SBR
Michael Biddington, UN ESCAP Statistics Division,

2. Roles of SBRs Always depends on country context
Resource constraints
Units model
Needs of Statistical System
Administrative data
Legal status
Provider Burden
Economic Survey Focused
Data Product Focused

3. Uses of SBRs Foundation of National Accounts Support Economic Surveys
All surveys need a frame
Link Administrative data
Unit record
By ISIC
Change
Identify Errors
Many uses from linking Admin Data
Looking at your presentations this isn’t that hard for you to understand. You all run SBRs.

4. Standard Products – Surveys
Common Frame
Basis for all economic surveys
Unit ID
ISIC
Number of employees
Alive status
States of Operation
Type of Business
This is Australia & Canada actually. Similar Units model and survey programme.
Main variation is choice of Statistician variable (Employment, Turnover, Tax paid etc). Also locations may or may not be important. Economic surveys all having same data source supports coherence.

5. Standard Products – Admin Data
Unit record estimates (Quarterly)
Data sources
Australia
All LEs and TAUs
Turnover ($)
Tax Paid ($)
Wages and Salaries ($)
Used for data substitution & validation
But if Norway SBR…..
In Norway superior admin data allows much more detailed economic estimates to be made from admin data alone.

6. Other Products Business Demographic Statistics Counts
By ISIC, employment, turnover
Births & deaths
Covered in more detail on day 4

7. Confidentiality Willingness Confidence
No identifiable unit record data
Protected
If you want providers (Businesses or government agencies) to be willing to give you data you need them to be confidence you will keep it confidential. This means;

8. Confidentiality – in Practice
Unit record data
is not released publicly;
is available to authorised people on a need to know basis only;
cannot be derived from disseminated data;
and is maintained and accessed securely.
Legislation
Agreements with providers

9. Access - Users of SBR No one outside NSO should have access to system
SBR team
SBR managers
Economic statisticians
All sign confidentiality agreements
For rest if discussion (keep it simple).

10. Access – SBR System System Access – controlled SBR team Rest of NSO
Full access
Detailed unit history
Rest of NSO
Limited and monitored

11. Dissemination (internal)
Reports
Data sets
Survey frames
Small audience
Well informed
Confidentiality - Limit access

12. Dissemination (external)
Limited
Products – BDS (Day 4)
Large audience
Poorly informed
Wide access
Confidentiality – limit published data

13. Q&A
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