Giorgi Sanadze

Head of Business Statistics Division

National Statistics Office of Georgia - GEOSTAT

Contents

Brief definitions

Main administrative data sources

Other administrative data sources

Administrative data sharing frequency

Data update procedure

Data confidentiality

Importance of administrative data

New statistical products within administrative data

Future plans

Brief definitions

Administrative sources can be divided in two categories:

Micro data

Aggregated data

1. Micro data can be considered as a main administrative

data Source

2. Aggregated data can be considered as another

administrative data source

Main administrative data sources

National Agency of Public Register (NAPR)

Information on registered business entities

Information on legal address

Contact information

Name of founder persons, e-mail and etc.

Main administrative data sources

Revenue service (Tax office)

Information on active business entities

Actual address

Salary

Turnover and etc.

Main administrative data sources

Information submitted by NAPR and Revenue Service is used for:

Statistical Business Register formation

Business statistics survey frame formation

Additional source for imputation, estimation within data processing and etc.

Other administrative data sources

Different ministries and agencies to produce information on:

Registered cars and vehicles

Passengers

Freight

Roads

Energy sources and etc.

Administrative data sharing frequency

Data from NAPR and Revenue service:

At the beginning of each month via STP Protocol system

Data from other administrative sources:

Upon request via e-mail

Data update procedure

For statistical business register:

Data is updated automatically

It means:

Every changes in administrative sources are automatically

reflected in statistical business register

Data update procedure

Administrative data powerful but not a single facility to update statistical business register

Within update procedure is widely used:

Quarterly and annual business statistics survey results

Computer assisted telephone interview (CATI)

Data update procedure

Data derived from other administrative sources can be used as independent information or as an auxiliary information (for example within energy balance formation).

Data confidentiality

Micro data derived from administrative sources needs to be processed carefully to avoid disclosure.

Data confidentiality is protected by law on official Statistics of Georgia.

Main confidential information:

Turnover

Salary

Employment and etc.

Data confidentiality

Not all micro data can be considered as confidential

Following information is free for users:

Addresses

Contact details

Type of economic activity

Name of head of company or founder

Enterprise size and etc.

Importance of administrative data

It is powerful facility to decrease respondent burden

Easy to control the data derived from the business survey

Easy to use as additional information for imputation procedure

Importance of administrative data

Facility to create new statistical products

Enhance statistical business register which can be considered as back bone of all kind business surveys

Easy to define active business entities in order to create survey frame and etc.

New statistical products within administrative data

Recently GEOSTAT developed following statistical

products:

1. Business demography

2. GIS analysis portal

In order to develop this products the role of

administrative data was crucial

Products are available on GEOSTAT’s web-page

Future plans

Continuing active cooperation with administrative institutions

Looking for other alternative administrative sources

Improve business demography indicators

Develop list of short-term statistics indicators

Use more and more administrative data for production of statistics

Thank you for your attention!

Giorgi Sanadze

Head of Business Statistics DivisionNational Statistics Office of Georgia – GEOSTAT

E-mail:gsanadze@geostat.ge