1. Structural Business Statistics
within business and economic statistics

2. Structural Business Statistics
1. What are SBS?
2. What can SBS be used for?
3. SBS in business statistics
4. Links with other statistics

3. 1. What are SBS?
Describe the economy through the observation of the enterprises/businesses
Limited to the business economy (Sections C to K of NACE Rev.1.1)
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. 2. What can SBS be used for?
For policy-making
Market analysis and comparison with competitors
To be used as source data for other statistics e.g. national accounts

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11. 3. SBS in Business Statistics
Structural business statistics
Prodcom
Foreign Affiliates Statistics
International trade statistics ESTAT Dir G
Short term statistics
Community innovation survey
Research and development statistics
Information technology services (partly)
Tourism statistics
Energy statistics
Transport statistics

12. 4. 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