2. XBRL PILOT TASK FORCE MEETING
Introduction of XBRL in Spanish SBS-data collection
Raquel de Río
19th April 2007
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ESTADÍSTICA (INE)

3. Introduction Working group XBRL/INE composed by members
from different Units in INE:
Data-collection Unit
Computer Unit
Methodology Unit
Production Units

4. Introduction Concerning Eurostat pilot study, some works have been
carried out by the group:
Taxonomy revision
Pilot study: selection of the sample
Pilot study: implementation
Meetings with enterprises

5. Test description Selection of the sample:
200 large enterprises from the Industry (50%) and
Service sectors
17 of them belonging to XBRL-Spain Association

6. Answers received 6 answers were received: Enterprise Activity sector
Transportes Colectivos S.A.
Services (Passenger road transport)
Transportes urbanos de
Sevilla S.A.
AENA
Services (Supporting transport activities)
EDICOM
Services (Computer activities)
Software AG Spain
Transportes Asociados de la Industria Cárnica
Industry

7. Test works - several internal meetings and meetings with Software AG
- satisfaction surveys
- Power-Point presentation (for the introductory
part)

8. Test works - documentation on how to use the Fujitsu Instance creator
- INE XBRL taxonomy and extensions
- example instance
- visits to the enterprises involved in the test plan

9. Test final results Finally,
- Only three enterprises agreed to hold a meeting
with INE
- Another one agreed to receive by the
already mentioned documentation

10. Test final results Only two instances have been received on 4-18-2007
from:
- Software AG Spain
- AENA (incomplete instance only with
employment data)

11. Test evaluation The objectives proposed were:
To know whether or not reporting with XBRL can
gain widespread acceptance among business and NSIs
To come to clear conclusions about whether or not
XBRL can be used to increase the efficiency of
statistical reporting by businesses
Have we achieved these objectives?

12. Test evaluation Have we achieved these objectives?
It seems that is premature that XBRL can gain
widespread acceptance among firms at this moment
The second objective could not be evaluated with
this type of test

13. Test evaluation Other conclusions are:
The enterprises could consider XBRL as an option to
reduce their statistical burden when it can be
incorporated in their financial products no requiring
any expenditure effort.
On the other hand,
Fujitsu Xwand Instance Editor was no friendly user

14. Future works in INE
Among the strategic lines of Spanish Statistical Plan
in period are:
The decrease of the burden on enterprises
The modernization of the statistical activity using
information and communication technologies

15. Future works in INE Without any doubt,
The implementation of XBRL with success would to help to get these objectives but
There is still a long way to go

16. Future works in INE
The conclusion of test phase has been:
The use of XBRL by the enterprises will only suppose a decrease of burden when the accounting software includes the option of extracting the information required by INE automatically

17. Future works in INE
To achieve this aim depends on various factors. Some of them will depend on INE but others not
What can INE do?
To develop taxonomies for each questionnaire?
This seems not to be a good strategy

18. Future works in INE
The idea should be to develop the less possible number of taxonomies with the property of stability
This would imply a higher number of users
Software companies would become interested in developing their own applications based on the taxonomies

19. Future works in INE
At this moment, INE is working on the standardisation of the definition of economic variables
The aim is to design a taxonomy composed by the common variables of:
Structural Business Statistics
Research and Development Survey
Information and Communication Technology Survey
Environment Survey
And module extensions for the specific information of each survey

20. Thank you very much for your attention
Any questions?