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Dissemination and statistical use of Business Register data
Conference of European statisticiansGroup of experts of Business Registers
Luxembourg, 6-7 O2ctober 2009
Oct 2009 2Tuula Viitaharju
Business Register in Finland - duties
Compile statistics concerning business population and business demography
Base register for production of statistics Provide chargeable information services to outside users
Future plans
Oct 2009 3Tuula Viitaharju
Business Register in Finland - 40 years (1)
Main phases of development 1954, 1964 business censuses
output: statistics on business population
1970’s, regular register maintenance, main ideas: statistics of business population contributing NA statistics
Oct 2009 4Tuula Viitaharju
Business Register in Finland - 40 years (2)
1980 - 1995 intensive development phase:increasing coveragedevelopment of register based statistics productiondevelopment of base registers and business
identification codesincreasing use of administrative filesgrowth of chargeable information services
background: early phases of information society, rationality in sharing
data on basic units with all users in society
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Income from Business Register services
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Vuosi
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100
Oct 2009 6Tuula Viitaharju
Business Register in Finland - 40 years (3)
from 1995 on, topics like:EU regulationsquality questions, small area statisticsdynamics, complex business structures, globalisationenterprise group unitresponse burden
Annex 1 in my paper: milestones in the development of Business Register
Oct 2009 7Tuula Viitaharju
Business register, number of business enterprises- increasing coverage
Number of business enterprises in Business Register, 1972 - 2007
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trade register trade reg + employers all business enterprises all business ent. + farms
Oct 2009 9Tuula Viitaharju
Compiling and dissemination of statistics - business population
from Business Register production database -> we produce annual data files for source of annual statistics = a kind of frozen version of BR for each reference year
file of enterprisesfile of local units
threshold: 0,5 employment and 6 months activity period (comparable statistics over time)
it means more workload to produce the annual data file
Oct 2009 10Tuula Viitaharju
Compiling and dissemination of statistics - business population
statistics by NACE, by region, by legal form, by size category of employment and turnover, variables: employment, turnover, sum of wages and salaries in StatFin database: enterprises, local units
analysispublished in Statistics Finland home pages(EN) (FI)paper publication ‘Enterprises in Finland’
Oct 2009 11Tuula Viitaharju
Compiling and dissemination of statistics - business demography
from Business Register production database it is compiled quarterly statistics on ‘Enterprise openings and closures’
statistics by NACE, by region, by legal form, variable: number of enterprises in StatFin -database
analysispublished in Statistics Finland home pages(EN) (FI)
business demography statistics according to EU harmonised method are not yet published in Finland
Oct 2009 12Tuula Viitaharju
main BR duties 2: Business Register use in statistics production process
the most important role of Business Register
Oct 2009 13Tuula Viitaharju
Business Register use in statistics production BR database collects and merges plenty of administrative data as
common frame for statistics (annex 2 of the paper) BR is important tool when linking administrative and survey data BR is survey frame for all direct data collections BR is data source in register based statistics production
it provides basic units, classifications, employment, turnover as an example: recently SBS in Finland gave up collecting and estimating
employment data for itself and started to use exclusively BR employment variable
Tool of profiling activities Tool for enterprise respondent service Tool in statistics on globalisation - enterprise groups
Oct 2009 14Tuula Viitaharju
Sharing Business Register data - in-house
BR database is in wide use inside Statistics Finland about 300 users from economic as well as from social
statistics on-line access or reading by batch programs use is supported by BR metadata kept available in
Statistics Finland (quality reports, time table of BR updating, variable descriptions, process descriptions)
Oct 2009 15Tuula Viitaharju
In-house co-operation, examples
common data collection with FATS-statistics on foreign owned enterprises (MNEs in Finland)
common data collection with regional employment statistics on multi-site enterprises (their local units and employment-local unit links)
profiling large and complex enterprises - the network coordinator is working in BR – profiling activities started in 2008
Oct 2009 16Tuula Viitaharju
Enterprise respondent register
contains information from all Statistics Finland business data collections
respondent service about Statistics Finland data collection
enables measuring response burden
Oct 2009 18Tuula Viitaharju
Data dissemination as chargeable services tailor made statistics unit level data
in standard formad-hoc information servicesdefining business populations according to customer
wishesupdating customer registers periodically, etc.
mass data deliveries for further disseminationweb based enterprise lists, business portals
BR service database: monthly deliveries available of whole populations and all public variables
Oct 2009 19Tuula Viitaharju
Boundary condition for unit level data dissemination
The Statistics Act includes specific provisions on the public data items of the Business Register, the list include:
BI-code, name, postal address and code, telephone number
Legal form, ownership, activity code, domicile, languagePersonnel, size class of personnel (local unit), size class
of turnoverCode of import or export Relationships of enterprise groups
Oct 2009 20Tuula Viitaharju
Problems of unit level data dissemination
Confidentiality in large and small enterpriseswith large enterprises: threat of revealing sensitive
information connected to competition with other enterprises
with small enterprises (like farms etc): threat of revealing sensitive information connected to proximity of private and business life; family and enterprise mixed
Not all enterprises are happy about data sharing, but only small minority is actually opposing
Oct 2009 21Tuula Viitaharju
How to manage the contradictions
open administration, in general public base registers are widely accepted in Finland
thanks to well known base register co-operation among Finnish administration (a special board)
Statistic Act strictly regulates the list of public data the principles of unit level data dissemination are clearly
told to respondents in survey letters and in Statistics Finland Internet pages
Oct 2009 22Tuula Viitaharju
Benefits of unit level data dissemination
feedback from data users and enterprises themselves increased knowledge about BR and BR data quality route to disseminate NACE Rev 2 saving taxpayers money, co-operation helps whole
administration release of local unit level data (BR is the only source that
covers all sectors) – useful for regional organisations saving response burden
Oct 2009 23Tuula Viitaharju
Customers of outside services
large private companies, banking and insurance sector research institutes, schools single researches public sector (government, ministries, regional planning and
local organisations) private sector 70 %, public sector 30 %
Customer relations in outside servicesBR service team, 4 personsBusiness Register Service Guide
Oct 2009 24Tuula Viitaharju
Statistics Finland’s Research Laboratory
mainly for economic research purposes access to encrypted micro level data contain several data sets including Business Register data
(enterprise, local units, enterprise groups)
Remote on-line access under development
Oct 2009 26Tuula Viitaharju
The System of Economic Statistics
International statistical system
Environmentalstatistics
Business statistics
(STS, SBS)
Labour statistics
Governmentfinance
National accounts
Foreign trade
Pricesand costs
Other economicstatistics
Business register
Economic statistics
Science,technology, innovation
Operating environment
Social statistics
Oct 2009 27Tuula Viitaharju
Current strategic goals for Business Register
globalisation - to cover MNEs and to operate in the EGR network
means in improving coherence of economic statistics efficiency of production - the BR as a common frame of
business statistics a more real time Business Register with interactive nature
present data architecture originates from 1997
Oct 2009 28Tuula Viitaharju
Business Register redesign project
Definition stage ongoing 2009 Goals
to establish a data warehouse solution for business statistics
to define interactive BR processes inside Statistics Finland
to define well operating system for administrative data capture including metadata management
to define changes in Business Register data content
Oct 2009 29Tuula Viitaharju
Thank you for your attention!
Tuula ViitaharjuHead, Business Register
Statistics [email protected]: +358 9 1734 3378