1. Business Register on Enterprise Groups
The new Italian
Business Register on Enterprise Groups
IT Project and realisation:
Augusto Pallante (ISTAT)
Franco Tulli (ISTAT)
Presented by:
Enrica Morganti (ISTAT)
20° Roundtable on Business Survey Frames
Wiesbaden 21 – 26 October 2007

2. Presentation:
Why a new IT procedure
Main elements
Structure of the procedure
Description of the first macro-phase
Description of the second macro-phase
Some results testing OLD/NEW

3. WHY A NEW IT PROCEDURE
Need to register all foreign legal units (both foreign GH and foreign affiliates)
Need to have the BG on EG as an integrated part of the BR SYSTEM
Need to reduce processing time
Need to reduce manual corrections to programs and standardise them
Need to improve the overall quality

4. INPUTS: 3 ADMINISTRATIVE SOURCES
BALANCE
SHEETS
QUOTED
COMP.
SHAREHOLDINGS
OF NOT QUOTED

5. Record types used by the procedure are only two:
BALANCE SHEETS
19 INPUT FILES – ASCI WITH FIXED RECORD LENGTH BY RECORD TYPES
Record types used by the procedure are only two:
type 1 containing registry information of companies (fiscal code, name, address, nationality, etc.)
type 5 containing shareholdings betwwen couples of components

6. NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUOTED COMPANIES
4 INPUT FILES IN EXCEL FORMAT:
2 CONTAINING CONTROL LINKS (QUANTITATIVE DIRECT AND QUALITATIVE)
2 CONTAINING REGISTRY INFORMATION ABOUT BOTH JURIDICAL PERSONS AND PHISICAL PERSONS

7. COMPANIES SHAREHOLDINGS
LARGEST INPUT FILE
15 FILES – ASCI WITH VARIABLE STRUCTURE AND VARIABLE RECORDS TRACK ACCORDING TO TYPE RECORDS (9)
EXTREMELY COMPLEX DESCRIPTIVE STRUCTURE OF THE FILE
FOR EACH DECLARING COMPANY ALL INFORMATION
REGISTRY INFORMATION,
SHAREHOLDINGS AND SHAREHOLDERS,
KIND OF PROPERTY RIGHTS,
SELLING/BUYING OF SHARES AND PROPERTY RIGHTS AMONG SHAREHOLDERS
ARE ALL RECORDED WITHIN THE SAME CLUSTER RELATED TO THE DECLARING COMPANY.

8. BASIC ELEMENTS
COMPONENTS
CONTROL LINKS

9. COMPONENTS RESIDENT NOT RESIDENT PHISICAL PERSON JURIDICAL PERSON
(VERY RARE)

10. CONTROL LINKS QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE DIRECT (immediately available)
INDIRECT (to be reconstructed)
QUALITATIVE
(to be decodified, since it could be either direct or indirect)

11. 1° MACRO-PHASE:
Loading registry information and assigning the unique ID_DB_CODE
>>> DB_REGISTRY_COMPONENTS
Loading all the BASIC LINKS
>>> DB_GROUPS_LINKS
Algorithm of indirect control and selection of ALL CONTROL LINKS
>>> DB_GROUPS_CONTROL

14. N. OF INPUT RECORDS BY SOURCE AND BY KIND OF COMPONENT
 Italian Foreign Total
Comp. Comp. Comp.
______________________________________________
BALANCE SHEETS
STOCK EXCHANGE
SHAREHOLDINGS
_______________________________________________
TOTAL

15. 1 – COMPONENTS IDENTIFICATION
1° MACRO-PHASE
- Loading registry information and assigning the unique ID_DB_CODE
>>> DB_REGISTRY_COMPONENTS
1 – COMPONENTS IDENTIFICATION
RESIDENT
NOT RESIDENT
ASSIGNING THE UNIQUE ID_DB_CODE

16. 2 – ASSIGNING ID CODE TO RESIDENT UNITS
1° MACRO-PHASE - Loading registry information and assigning the unique ID_DB_CODE >>> DB_REGISTRY_COMPONENTS
2 – ASSIGNING ID CODE TO RESIDENT UNITS
FISCAL
CODE
CORRECT ?
SEARCH ON THE ALREADY
EXISTING ID_CODE IN THE DB
YES
NOT
REJECTED NO
YES
SEARCH AS
VAT CODE
FOUND ?
FOUND?
YES
NOT
SEARCH ON DB
ASSIGNING
GENERATING
A NEW
ID_DB_CODE
FOUND ?
NOT
UPDATING THE LIST
OF ALL ID_DB_CODE
YES

17. 3 – ASSIGNING ID CODE TO NOT RESIDENT UNITS
1° MACRO-PHASE - Loading registry information and assigning the unique ID_DB_CODE >>> DB_REGISTRY_COMPONENTS
3 – ASSIGNING ID CODE TO NOT RESIDENT UNITS
NAME AND
NATIONALITY
ASSIGNING
SEARCH ON
DB_WORDS_GROUPS
FOUND?
NOT
GENARATING A NEW
ID_DB_CODE
UPDATING THE LIST
OF ALL ID_DB_CODE SI

18. BASIC LINKS (NOT YET CONTROL LINKS)
1° MACRO-PHASE
- Loading all the BASIC LINKS
>>> DB_GROUPS_LINKS
BASIC LINKS (NOT YET CONTROL LINKS)
Component 1
Component 2
OWNS
< 50%
> 50%
MINORITY
SHAREHOLDINGS
DIRECT CONTROL
LINK

19. BASIC LINKS (Quantitative)X1 X2 A B C D
40%
30%
60%
70%

20. CONTROL LINKS (Qunatitative)X1 X2 A B C D
40%
30% 1

21. 2° MACRO-PHASE:
Selection of CONTROL LINKS
Within each source
Among sources (priority rules)
Threatment of INCONCISTENCIES
More than one control (XcB and YcB)
Opposite control (XcY and YcX)
Building up PROVISIONAL GROUPS
Assigning HIERARCHICAL LEVEL
Manual checks and recycling iterations of 2° MACRO-PHASE
Graphic application
Historical information kept for corrections
>>>DB_GROUPS_CONTROLS>>>DB_GROUPS_CORRECTIONS
>>>DB_GROUPS_CRRECTIONS>>>DB_GROUPS_CONTROLS
END
Loading CORRECT GROUPS >>> DB_GROUPS

23. MERGING OF CONTROL LINKS
2° MACRO-PHASE: Selection of CONTROL LINKS
MERGING OF CONTROL LINKS
11,3%
0,9%
9,4%
0,4%
0,1%
75%
2,9%

24. From DB_GROUP_LINKS To DB_GROUPS_CONTROLS
N. OF RECORDS BY SOURCE
From DB_GROUP_LINKS To DB_GROUPS_CONTROLS
DB_GROUP_LINKS DB_GROUPS_CONTROLS
BALANCE SHEETS
STOCK EXCHANGE
SHAREHOLDINGS
__________________________________________________________
TOTAL

25. NUMBER OF GROUPS INITIAL TOTAL GROUPS 273.784
____________________________________________________
IMPROPER GROUPS (EXCLUDED)
NON CORRECT GROUPS (A)
INCOMPLETE LEVEL GROUPS (B)
CORRECT GROUPS (C)
FINAL GROUPS (A+B+C)
________________________________________________________________

26. DB_GROUPS_CORRECTIONS
Manual checks and recycling iterations of 2° MACRO-PHASE Graphic application
DB_GROUPS_CORRECTIONS
TIP_COD_ PARTECIPATED
NOT NULL
VARCHAR2(3)
ID_COD_PARTECIPATED
NUMBER(9)
TIP_COD_ PARTECIPANTING
ID_COD_PARTECIPANTING
YEAR
NUMBER(4)
FLAG_CHOICE
VARCHAR2(1)

27. SVILUPPO PL/SQL - FORMS
8 Package
24 Procedure
3 Funzioni
6 Maschere grafiche principali
8 Maschere grafiche di supporto
7 Tabelle
4 Sequence

28. SVILUPPO PL/SQL - FORMS
8 Package
24 Procedure
3 Funzioni
6 Maschere grafiche principali
8 Maschere grafiche di supporto
7 Tabelle
4 Sequence

29. SVILUPPO PL/SQL - FORMS
8 Package
24 Procedure
3 Funzioni
6 Maschere grafiche principali
8 Maschere grafiche di supporto
7 Tabelle
4 Sequence

30. SVILUPPO PL/SQL - FORMS
8 Package
24 Procedure
3 Funzioni
6 Maschere grafiche principali
8 Maschere grafiche di supporto
7 Tabelle
4 Sequence

31. Groups, units and employees

32. OLD PROCEDURE Size class Groups Act. LU Employment n % 1-19 39,279n %
1-19
39,279
63.7
67,502
47.1
247,017
4.9
20-99
16,070
26.0
37,978
26.5
712,253
14.0
5,066
8.2
19,302
13.5
1,021,982
20.1
1,193
1.9
12,418
8.7
1,488,962
29.3
5000 e oltre 89
0.1
6,248
4.4
1,609,571
31.7
TOTALE
59,989
100.0
138,936
5,123,169

33. NEW PROCEDURE Size class Groups Act. LU Empl. n % 1-19 38,081 63.5n %
1-19
38,081
63.5
65,228
46.9
239,838
4.7
20-99
15,575
26.0
36,344
26.2
691,750
13.5
5,029
8.4
18,802
1,023,556
20.0
1,217
2.0
12,440
9.0
1,504,094
29.4
5000 e oltre 87
0.1
6,122
4.4
1,663,932
32.5
TOTALE
61,697
100.0
143,448
5,079,786

34. GROUP HEADS
TOTAL UNITS

35. MERGE BETWEEN OLD NEW

36. PROCESSING TIME Loading sources: Balance Sheets 43’
Quoted companies ’
Companies Sharehold. 2h45’
1° MACROFASE (3 fasi) 9h 36’
2° MACROFASE (3 fasi) h 63’
1° CICLO

37. PHISICAL SPACE DB_REGISTRY_COMPONENTS 478 MB DB_GROUPS_LINKS 109 MB
DB_GROUPS_CONTROLS MB
DB_WORDS_GROUPS MB
DB_GROUPS MB

38. DEVELOPMENT PL/SQL - FORMS
8 Packages
24 Procedures
3 Functions
6 Main graphical masks
8 Supporting graphical masks
7 Tables
4 Sequences

39. - END -
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