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BUSINESS STATISTICS INTEGRATION IN THE U.K.
Peter J FullertonOffice for National Statistics
• Why we want to integrate• Background to UK business statistics• Business Surveys Integration Project• The new vision for business integration• Barriers• Progress to date• Next steps
Why do we want to integrate?
Benefits• improved quality and coherence • lower costs for businesses• lower processing costs for ONS
Enablers• new legislation • electronic data transfer• estimation methods
Background to UK business statistics
• 80 different business surveys• 1.7 million individual questionnaires issued
to……• 280,000 separate businesses (out of 2 million)• € 50 million
• Paper forms – all scanned• Telephone direct entry• Secure electronic file transfer• Some administrative sources used for
register
“Business Surveys Integration Project” - 2004
• Business Register and Employment Survey:to maintain the register and support regional and employment estimates
• Monthly Business Survey: to collect turnover data for all sectors and possibly data on employment
• Annual Business Survey: to meet GDP & GVA needs producing both regional and national data
100% strataCore GVA variables
(ABI/2 short form)
Filter questions
Sampled strataCore GVA variables
(ABI/2 short form)
Filter questions
Detailed components
(ABI/2 long form)+
purchases (PI)+
products/services(PRODCOM,SERVCOM)
+Capex
+Inventories
Detailed components
(ABI/2 long form)
Purchases (PI)
Products/services(PRODCOM,SERVCOM)
Capex
Inventories
E-commerce
R & D
ITIS
E-commerce
R & D
ITIS
ABSannual
COTAX & company acounts+
self-employed self assessment
Turnover(MIDSS, MPI, RSI)
+Inventories?
+Capex?+ Profits? (QPI)
+Employment?
(MIDSS, MPI, RSI, GAPS, QLA)
MBSmonthly &?quarterly
VAT turnover
LU employment +business structure
(BRS)+
annual employment
(ABI/1)
BRESannual
PAYE employment
New policy demands
+ad hoc
demands
BOSannual or quarterly
NES REP
Earnings + hoursannual (ASHE)
PRICES REP
Prices - monthlyor quarterly
RPI PPIEPI IPICSPIEarnings monthly
(MWSS)
PENSIONS REPFinancial sector
surveys+ FDI
KEYBusiness Surveys Integration Project
Re-Engineering Project
Integration sub-project
Admin data source
ABC Existing survey
Future vision of business data sources
?FSA data
Annual Business Survey
BR
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Mon
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Bus
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The new vision for business integration
• High quality business register• Access to administrative records• Combining statistical sources• Harmonising questions, standards and
classifications• Optimising methods and statistical processes• Re-engineering business processes and
governance• Supporting technology infrastructure• Offering businesses a greater choice
100% sample – bespoke inquiries
Estimation – smaller samples/admin data
100% admin data
Large, complex firms
Small, simple firms
Barriers
• Legislation
• Investment
• Continuity
• Methodology gaps
• Timeliness
• Validation
• Accuracy
Progress to date
Business Register & Employment Survey• duplication removed 2006• pilot survey underway 2007• phased implementation 2008 - 2009
Administrative data• report on Companies House Accounts data• interim Report on Corporation Tax – 91% match• investigation of Value Added Tax underway• enabling legislation in place for April 2008
Next steps
• Investigate differences between administrative sources and survey results
• Analyse ONS's requirements and how best to meet these from a range of data sources
• Build up methodological expertise in using administrative data
• Administrative data sharing agreements• Identify technology requirements • Understand the potential of electronic tax returns
and standard business reporting taxonomies • Investigate the potential of the MEETS programme
BUSINESS STATISTICS INTEGRATION IN THE U.K.
peter.j.fullerton@ons.gsi.gov.ukmyrto.miltiadou@ons.gsi.gov.uk
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