1. Structural Business Statistics

2. Structural Business Statistics
1. What are SBS?
2. What can SBS be used for?
3. Links with other statistics
4. Labour productivity measures
5. SBS data in Eurobase

3. 1. What are SBS?
Describe the economy through the observation of the enterprises/businesses
Limited to the business economy (market activities of Sections B to N + division S95 of NACE Rev.2)
Annual; yearly – multi-yearly frequency;absolute figures: no indices

4. 1. What are SBS? Monetary data in current prices
Activity based statistics not product statistics
Regulation deadlines:
Definitive data: t+18 months
Preliminary data: t+10 months

5. 1. What are SBS? Main variables: Number of enterprises Turnover
Production value
Value added at factor cost
Total purchases of goods and services
Personnel costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Gross investment in tangible goods
Number of persons employed
Number of employees (+FTE)

6. 1. What are SBS? Main variables:
Number of births of enterprises + related employment
Number of deaths of enterprises + related employment

7. 1. What are SBS? Main breakdowns NACE (up to 4-digit)
Size class of employment
Regions (NUTS II level)
Products (business services, trade)
Residence of client (business services)
Controlling countries (inward FATS)

8. 2. What can SBS be used for?
provide the policy makers of the Commission with the necessary information for new economic, competition, social, environmental and enterprise policies
businesses and their professional associations can use SBS to understand their markets and to compare their activity and performance with those of their competitors at regional, national and international level

9. 2. What can SBS be used for?
Analysis of:
Structure and evolution of activities of businesses
Factors of production and other elements allowing measurement of business activity, performance and competitiveness
Regional, national, Community and international development of businesses
SMEs
To be used as source data for other statistics e.g. national accounts

10. 2. What can SBS be used for?

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12. 2. What can SBS be used for?

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14. 2. What can SBS be used for? (business demography)

15. 2. What can SBS be used for? (FATS)

16. 2. What can SBS be used for? (business services)

17. 3. Links with other statistics
Value added:
Also in national accounts
Employment:
Also from labour force survey
Labour costs/personnel costs:
Also from labour cost survey
Production value:
Also in Prodcom (Products in industry)
Evolution over time of activities:
Also in STS

18. 4. Labour productivity measures available from SBS
Apparent labour productivity (dependent on price level):
Value added
person employed
Wage adjusted labour productivity (not dependent on price level):
Value added / persons employed
Wages and salaries/number of employees

19. 4. Labour productivity measures available from SBS
Value added per employee FTE (dependent on price level):
Value added
Number of employees in full-time equivalent
Value added per hour worked by employees (dependent on price level)
Number of hours worked by employees

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21. 4. Labour productivity measures available from SBS

22. 4. Labour productivity measures available from SBS

23. 4. Labour productivity measures available from SBS
Apparent labour productivity, EU27 (in 1000€/person employed)
Highest
Extraction of natural gas
573
Extraction of crude petroleum
567
Transmission of electricity
296
Trade of electricity
220
Production of electricity
207
Lowest
Manufacture of other knitted and crocheted apparel 18
Repair of electrical equipment
Manufacture of other outerwear 16
Manufacture of underwear
Manufacture of workwear 15

24. 5. SBS data in Eurobase