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BUSINESS STATISTICS INTEGRATION IN THE U.K.
Peter J FullertonOffice for National Statistics
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• 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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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100% sample – bespoke inquiries
Estimation – smaller samples/admin data
100% admin data
Large, complex firms
Small, simple firms
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Barriers
• Legislation
• Investment
• Continuity
• Methodology gaps
• Timeliness
• Validation
• Accuracy
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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
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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