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

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