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Statistical Business RegisterStatistical Business RegisterInfrastructure for statistical Infrastructure for statistical

production systemsproduction systems

Regional Seminar on Implementation of 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in the ECO member countries

11-13 September 2013Ankara, Turkey

Dr. Julie L. Hass (email: JUH@ssb.no)Division for Development Cooperation

Statistics Norway

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Multi-purpose data systems

• Move from separate «stove pipe» production systems to

• coordinated, linked, multi-purpose data systems

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Advantage

• Reduce reporting burden

• Report data one time – use data many times

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Challenges• Need to collect the data users need

• Need to be able to connect/combine different data sets

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Challenges• Need to agree to cooperate and share information

• Have appropriate legal framework

• Data flows in ways that preserve confidentiality – Code of Practice for Official Statistics

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National accounts and register information

• National Accounts only to a lesser degree uses register information directly in estimations

– For some minor services activities turn-over directly from Central register of enterprises/establishments

– Some detailed information taken directly from Register of Wages and Salaries (RWS) and used in estimations of employment

• Mostly indirect use of register information via the various economic statistics used in National Accounts

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StatisticsStructural business

statistics

Central and local

government accounts

External Trade Statistics

Price statistics

Labor market staistisc

Financial instituions

statistics

Household consumer surveys

NATIONAL ACCOUNTS

Registers

Register of households and persons

- employees/consumers

Register of government institutions - producers

Register of customs

Declarations - traders

Central Register of Establishments/Enterprises

– producers

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CREE

CCRLE

Statistics

Statistics Norway

Other government

institutions

Various administrative registers and sources

Business Register - the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (CREE)

Central Coordinating Register of Legal Entities (CCRLE)

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Central Coordinating Register of Legal Entities (CCRLE)

• VAT Register • Register of Employers • Corporate Taxation Data Register • County Governors' Register of Foundations • Register of Stockholders • Register of Business Enterprises

How to connect the different data sets?

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Unique ID number

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Reg of

Business

entities

SN’s Statistical Central Register of Enterprises

VAT

register

Corp tax

data

Reg of

employers

Enterprises

Establ.

LKAU

CRE

Other

sources

Legal units

Legal units

Legal units

Legal units

LKAU

LKAU

Optional

registration

CCRLE

Legal units

LKAU

Legal unitsEnterprise

Groups

CCRLE – Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Brønnøysund)

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Demands on a statistical Business Register

• The register must represent a common population inside SN

• The register must have full coverage and high quality, and must be updated and well documented

• Contain the units that are defined in the EU regulation on Business registers

• Contain the classifying variables necessary to define the relevant statistical populations

• Contain information on enterprise groups and globalisation

• Integrated with an administrative register

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Updating the Business Register

• Statistics Norway meets a constant pressure to reduce response burden

– Reduce number and size of sample surveys

• A long tradition of linking our units to other administrative data

• 1995: A formal companionship round the administrative Central Coordinating Register of Legal Entities (CCRLE)

• Result:– A single identifier makes linking easier– A reliable source for obtaining new legal units – We share the updating burden with others– Statistics Norway can use the data from the associated registers to

monitor activity and produce statistics– Statistics Norway and other associated registers must pass on

information about units to the CCRLE

Statistical Business Register

• Part of the foundation of the statistical systemUnderpins the national accounts

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Thank you for your attention!

• Julie Hass, Senior AdviserDivision for Development CooperationStatistics Norwayemail: JUH@ssb.no

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