1. Prodcom ESTP course 15-16 October 2013
Data Transmission October 2013, Luxembourg
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2. Prodcom Technical Handbook
V5.3 available on CIRCABC
Library > technical_manuals > data_transmission
Technical Handbook version 5.3
Changes from version 5.2 :
- in code lists of chapter 5 to allow provision of data by Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
- change of DSI segment in GESMES
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3. Record header information
Each record content 20 fields (mandatory ones depend on production type)
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Heading type
S : Value and volume (if unit is specified) of sold production should be reported.
T : Value of sold production and the volume of both sold and total production must be reported.
I (Industrial Services): No volume data is required (fee paid)
V : only the total volume should be reported.
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The Sold value
Value of production
Currency
Confidentiality flag
Flag qualifier
(2nd flag qualifier – new format)
(Comment field – new format)
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The Sold value
Do not forget to mention integer issue.
Whatif Fee different in term of value of number of pieces.
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7. Meaning of confidentiality flags
<blank>: the target is not confidential
A: too few enterprises
B: one enterprise is dominant
C: two enterprises are dominant, or because it fails the p-percent test
S: secondary confidentiality
Qualifier : for A, for B or C, otherwise blank
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The Sold volume
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The Total volume
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10. Quality checks in Eurostat
consistency with the Prodcom List
completeness of Prodcom headings,
production type,
measurement unit and so on
correctness of formatting
If some validations checks fail, the data might be ignored and not used in EU aggregates.
countries are informed about errors and asked to correct them
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Plausibility checks
After the validation of reporting countries’ inputs, the following plausibility checks are applied:
The value is zero but the volume is non-zero (or vice-versa)
The value and volume are zero but they are marked confidential
The number of enterprises is blank or zero but production is reported
Visual checks. For instance:
production of olive oil in a Nordic country;
production of ships in a land-locked country;
no dairy production in a country, even though there are a lot of cows in the fields
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12. Data Transmission compliance score
Eurostat applies a combined compliance score for both punctuality and completeness of the data.
The formula is
m = the percentage of missing data
e = the percentage of data which were estimated by the country
d = the number of days late.
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Compliance Score (2/2)
Countries with a score of
20 or less are assessed as VG (Very Good),
as G (Good),
as P (Partially compliant) and
over 100 as N (Not compliant).
The most favourable compliance score is used.
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Check across years
The evolution of values or volumes across years is hard to evaluate because there may be a lot of natural variation.
But if production is fairly stable over several years and then changes significantly, there may be a problem (or a large factory opening or closing).
Such comparisons are useful both for detecting big changes from one year to another, but also for showing the differences between successive revisions of the same year's data.
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16. Check across countries
Provision of median values
Ranking of countries producing products over years
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17. New tool to validate data : EDIT
Demonstration of the EDIT tool.
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