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ESSnet Admin Data:
usefulness of results
Introductory and general remarks
• ESSnet Admin Data was part of MEETS
Programme and ran for 4 years (2009–2013);
• Focus was mainly on statistical outputs required
by the Short Term Statistics (STS) and Structural
Business Statistics (SBS) Regulations;
• Very ambitious work programme, divided between
8 workpackages;
• True partnership, with at least 3 co-partner NSIs
involved in each work package.
“Official” Aim of the ESSnet Admin Data
“The use of administrative and accounts data for
business statistics has country specific problems
as well as problems common for most of the MSs.
The common problems concern the methods of
quality checking, editing and estimation of
missing variables. One of the ways to help NSIs
solve common problems is to create an ESSnet
where several MSs interested in the topic can
collaborate on the common task, and then
disseminate the results to non-participating
members.”
Specific aims of ESSnet Admin Data
To recommend best practices for dealing with the
identified problems:
• Poor timeliness of admin data for STS;
• SBS definitions differ from those used in
admin and accounts data;
• Some characteristics not available at all;
• No quality measures;
• Errors in admin data.
Membership of the ESSnet Admin Data
• All interested NSIs became co-partners of the
ESSnet Admin Data – UK, PT, NL, LT, IT, EE,
DE and BE;
• Not enough grant finance made available for
SGA 2011 (because 2.5 year period but amount
in Commission’s budget was for 1 year).
• Destatis (Germany) and INE (Portugal) therefore
did not commit to any work in SGA 2011 period.
• Staff in both NSIs continued interest, and in fact
the 2013 SBS workshop was held in Lisbon.
Overview of existing practices (WP1)
• Collection of all relevant literature in one place;
• Searchable database of literature and current
practices of European NSIs;
• Glossary of terms relevant to the use of
administrative data for business statistics;
• Current practices collected using questionnaires
in 2010 and 2012, populated as much as possible
in advance by ESSnet team, to minimise burden
• Results of both reviews have been published on
our Information Centre (essnet.admindata.eu).
EU+EFTA Area: Changed uses of admin sources by type of use and business statistics domain (2011-2012)
10 5 0 5 10 15 20 25
PRODCOM
Annexes I-IV
Annex V
Annex VI
Annex VII
Annex VIII
Annex IX
Building permits
Employment
New orders
Prod. prices/costs
Turnover
SB
SS
TS
DISCONTINUED | CURRENT
Direct/Both direct and indirect (Not yet in use) Direct/Both direct and indirect (Indirect)
Indirect (Not yet in use) Indirect (Direct/Both direct and indirect)
Discontinued (Direct/Both direct and indirect) Discontinued (Indirect)
No. of countries: changed responses to “Why aren’t admin data used?”, by business statistics domain (2011-2012)* * Previous responses in brackets. Update covering 79.4% of 31/12/2010 information
(AD not suitable)
(No relevant AD exist)
(All data from BR)
(No relevant AD exist)
(AD not suitable)
(Method. under dev.)
(AD not suitable)
(Method. under dev.)
(No relevant AD exist)
(Method. under dev.)
(AD not suitable)
(AD not suitable)
(AD not suitable)
0 1 2 3 4 5
PRODCOM
Annexes I-IV
Annex V
Annex VI
Annex VII
Annex VIII
Annex IX
Building permits
Employment
New orders
Prod. prices/costs
Turnover
SBS
STS
(Admin data are currently used) Admin data available but not suitable
Methodology under development No relevant admin data exist
(admin data used)
Admin data are being used
Admin data available but not suitable
Methodology under development
No relevant admin data exist
Influence of WP1 on rest of ESS
• ESSnet Admin Data’s Report to the European
Commission on changes in usage of admin data
during the “life” of the MEETS Programme.
• ESS.VIP Admin Data will start work in 2015;
• Preliminary Task Force has decided that “the
relationship with data owners and the role of the
NSIs in the collection and processing of
administrative data” will form one of the Work
packages of the VIP.
List of basic quality indicators (WP6)
• Quantitative and qualitative quality indicators
- Numeric and descriptive information
• Indicators of output quality, taking input and
process into account
• Select indicators relevant to the output
• Flexibility - Certain parameters will be set by the statistical
producer
• Accompanying examples of how to calculate each indicator - Specific SBS and STS tailored lists available
Influence of WP6 on rest of ESS
• Much interest at international conferences -
Q2010, ISI 2011 and Q2012;
• ESS.VIP Admin Data will start work in 2015;
• Preliminary Task Force has decided that the
work done by WP6 on quality indicators will be
starting point for another of the VIP’s Work
packages;
• VIP will extend WP6’s recommendations for
business statistics to all other areas of
European statistics.
SBS v. IFRS definitions (WP7)
• Items in businesses’ Balance Sheets and Profit
and Loss accounts look like SBS variables, but
are not exactly the same;
• Compared the most important 21 SBS definitions
with those in International Accounting Standards;
• Then real accounts data were compared with
SBS survey data, to establish whether the
definitional differences mattered in practice;
• If the accounts items were unsuitable for SBS,
WP3 team members used admin data to try to
estimate the variables in other ways.
WP7’s main recommendations
• Revenue might be used for the SBS variable
Turnover, as discrepancies arising from
differences between IAS/IFRS and SBS
requirements are small (this excludes the impact
of excise duty).
• Definition of Turnover should be amended to
exclude excise duties;
• Data from the Notes to companies’ Financial
Statements should be made available to NSIs in a
useable format (e.g. using IFRS’s xbrl Taxonomy).
Influence of WP7 on rest of ESS
• WP3 (definitions) of the MEETS ESSnet on
Consistency used these recommendations as
a starting point for its work;
• Task Force on Accounting and Statistics met in
May 2013 and decided that its work had been
carried out by the ESSnet Admin Data. The
Task Force has therefore been disbanded.
Estimating for “missing” variables (WP3)
• It is necessary to have very well correlated admin variables in order to estimate accurately for the whole population;
• Various methods have been shown to give acceptable estimates for a range of SBS variables for the smaller businesses (retaining a survey for larger businesses);
• It may not be possible to estimate all SBS variables from admin data, e.g. there were no acceptable methods found for Payments for agency workers.
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Timeliness issues for STS (WP4)
• Administrative data are incomplete at STS delivery
dates, because the admin data (mainly VAT and
social security) are due later.
• We therefore have to estimate the missing parts,
in order to determine the growth rates of turnover
and employment .
• Main recommendation is to retain a monthly
survey of the largest businesses; use quarterly
admin data trends to estimate for small
businesses on a monthly basis, and benchmark
monthly estimates to quarterly admin data.
Communication with other NSIs
• Dissemination strategy – Information Centre;
• Plan of workshops and training events – BSDG
members consulted in 2010;
• 5 workshops held;
• No training events because no grant provided;
• Several presentations to STS and SBS working
groups and BSDG;
• International conferences.
Workshops
• We have held a total of 5 workshops, starting in
March 2010 with a seminar in Rome, at which
we ensured that we were fully aware of the
current state of admin data practices across
Europe.
• We have recently hosted 2 large-scale
workshops – one for STS (April 2012 in Cardiff)
and one for SBS (March 2013 in Lisbon), with
over 70 attendees each – and one smaller STS
updating workshop (May 2013 in Tallinn).
Information Centre - essnet.admindata.eu
Advanced search options - possibility to search
within deliverables, reference library articles,
glossary items etc.
Project-wide Glossary which defines how various
terms, related to the use of administrative data and
accounts data, should be used within the context of
the Admin Data ESSnet (Wiki functionality).
Database of existing practices - user-friendly
application database with up-to-date data and user
interface (for online queries).
Reference library - repository of 520 items.
Some IC „pics“ IC search engine Reference library-520 items
DB-overview of existing practices Glossary
Top 25 IC user countries, in the last year
• 20 May 2012 to 19 May 2013
• 4,427 visits from 95 countries
Sequence Country Visits
1. United Kingdom 846
2. Italy 720
3. Belgium 259
4. Estonia 250
5. Netherlands 233
6. Poland 142
7. Germany 131
8. Lithuania 122
9. Bulgaria 112
10. Austria 109
11. Finland 108
12. New Zealand 104
13. Cyprus 88
14. Hungary 84
15. Switzerland 80
16. Sweden 67
17. Slovakia 61
18. Spain 55
19. Romania 55
20. Latvia 52
21. United States 52
22. Croatia 48
23. Turkey 47
24. Slovenia 46
25. Luxembourg 39
Thank you for your attention … any questions?