1. SBRs and Economic Surveys
Michael Biddington, Statistics Division UN ESCAP

2. Australian SBR Exists to support economic surveys;
Annual Economic Survey
Quarterly Business Indicators Survey
Retail sales survey
Capital Expenditures (Quarterly)
Average Weekly Earnings
Job Vacancies Survey
Producer Prices Survey
R&D survey
Survey for International Trade in Services

3. Australian Statistical Model
Public policy
Legislation
Research
Business analysis
USERS
NSO
National Accounts
Survey 1
Survey 2
Survey 3
Common Frame
Business Register
SOURCES

5. SBR Products Common Frame (frozen frame) Survey Frame
Sample units & contact details
Income and Wages (Tax data)
Business Provisions

6. Business Provisions Business Provisions Business Register
Survey Frame
Real world
target population
Business Register
(Common Frame)
Business Provisions
Deaths
Births and
Resurrections

7. Business Provisions
Time delay between registration data getting to SBR and survey frame
2 months missing data for quarterly economic surveys
We adjust result by BPs
Biggest impact is on monthly retail survey (1-2% increase in reported data).

8. Common Frame
The CF a point in time snapshot of the SBR used to create survey frames for the economic collections
Frequency of CF
Frequency of surveys
Frequency of updates (admin and manual)
Cost of production
Multiple areas involved requires effective coordination and communication

9. SNA Production Boundary
Households
Other Institutional units
Households
providing
dwellings
ABR
9.6m
Newly-registered ABNs
ABSBR
6.9m
Non-
business
ABNs
ACTIVE
UNITS
4.9m
COMMON
FRAME
2.2m
Cancelled
ABNs
Household
production
for own
final use
Non-profiled
units
Long-term
non-remitters
Professional
gambling EG EN
TAU
Profiled
units
Does not withhold
Income Tax
Not registered for
Goods & Services Tax
Foreign
entities
Households
providing
services
Out of scope
NON-OBSERVED ECONOMY
Barter trade
Subsistence
Illegal activity
Backyard production
SNA Production Boundary

10. Common Frame Preparation
Update with latest Business Registration data
Final updates from surveys
Shut down of SBR – no more profiling
Run audits and validations
Fix any errors
Clearance report
Clearance meeting
Released

11. Q&A
Thank you