1. SBR and Business Statistics
Sven Egmose
Statistics Denmark
Roundtable Beijing October 2004

2. The Danish SBR (1) Contains a copy of the Admin. BR On-line connection
Legal units updated from more sources
Production units updated:
Automatic when legal unit are updated
From Statistics Denmark And Factories Inspectorate
Activity codes: joint updating

3. The Danish SBR (2) Real time dating
Units, data, relations
Tomorrow the data is better than today on e.g. end of 2003, because
Corrections which in reality were valid in 2003 has been made

4. Use of the SBR (1) Basis for all business statistics
Extract of SBR are posed at the disposal of the branch statisticians
Samples are drawn by the branch statistician

5. Use of the SBR (2)
Branch statistician go for best quality for the specific statistics
Different unit types used for different statistics
Wishes for different versions of the SBR (always as new as possible)
Traditionally a high degree of flexibility

6. Specific quality vs. coherence
Coherence an overall goal
Convince or overrule branch statisticians
Standardised
Statistical unit types
Versions of the SBR
Requires a very good quality SBR

7. Frozen versions of SBR Not only one version
Structural (yearly) statistics
The starting point
Short term statistics
More complicated

8. Frozen versions: Problems
Statistics are made up at different times
More corrections regarding nearest past
Frozen versions must be drawn for the first statistics to be published
For “slow” short term statistics it will be a real quality decline

9. Corrections to frozen versions
Not totally blocked
But only really important corrections
Corrections must be approved by a high level group
Revision of already published statistics?

10. Frozen versions: Gains
Coherent statistics
In particular professional users requires coherence
Better integration of statistics at the micro level

11. Samples Populations from the SBR
Samples drawn by the branch statistician
Efficient ?
Branch statisticians are not experts in drawing optimal samples
…..but they know their sector
No coordination of samples

12. Response burden A hot issue
A good SBR is a tool for reducing sample sizes
Fair distribution of the burden
And restricted burden on small units
Requires coordination
Centralized drawing of samples