Improving Use of Administrative Data in Production of Official Statistics: Why statistical units are important? Role of Statistical Register Systems 12‐16 September 2015, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Session2.2: Units for establishing Objectives What statistics? For whom? statistical business registers Statistical units Where (who) are (holds) data? Data on what?
Source: Data collection ‐ United Nations (2015): International guidelines on Statistical Business Registers How & where to find? How to methods collect?
Arman Bidarbakht-Nia
lecturer, UNSIAP 2
Objective: Core Set of Economic Statistics Examples
Prices and costs Income & wealth Persons Demand & output Enterprise
Informal Money & banking Government Labour market turnover establishment Employment Activity (in formal sector) Natural resources & the industry Sector environment
Source: http://communities.unescap.org/economic‐statistics
4 Statistical units? Which data collection method?
The method should… Sampling units Need for a frame (SBR): Provide a good coverage for the desired sampling/observational units • Regularly updated Units to Observational units • Good coverage be • Well defined units selected Provide accurate and high quality statistics on in the • Provides links Information desired analytical units sample collected for Analytical units • Provides design (establish variables (employed Statistics produced for ment, persons, activity, enterprise) (establishment, employee, job, Provide adequate link between statistical units establishment...) industry, etc)
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Major statistical units in SBR What is an enterprise?
No unique definition exist! Enterprise group SNA 2008 (based on institutional unit) Enterprise Key to other definitions ISIC (based on economic transactor) Local unit European definition (based on legal units)
Kind of Activity unit (KAU) National practices (?) Establishment/Local KAU Refer to the manual for exact definitions
7 8 What is an enterprise? Major statistical units in SBR SNA 2008 definition Enterprise An Institutional unit producing goods and services
Institutional unit is Establishment Single activity Single location /LKAU
An Economic entity, capable in its own right Kind of owning assets, incurring liabilities, engaging in activity Local unit economic activities & transactions unit (KAU)
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Major statistical units in SBR Other units ...
Recommended to define enterprise such that: … needed for creation and maintenance of SU:
Enterprises and “Legal units” are in one‐to‐one correspondence Legal unit : recognized by law or society independent of person/institutions that own them
Enterprise group: Administrative unit: established by relevant admin authorities under
A set of “legal units” bound together by legal/or financial links and regulation of a legal unit (may or may not correspond to the legal unit) under the same control Operational unit
Local units of legal unit 11 12 Links between units
Administrative world
Legal unit 1 Legal unit is pivotal admin Legal unit Legal unit 2 between administrative and statistical units Enterprise group
legal Derived enterprise units
One‐establishment enterprise multi‐establishment enterprise Stat Establishment Establishment (1) Establishment (LKAU) (LKAU) (2) (LKAU) Statistical world 13 14
Statistical unit models
Enterprise group A recommended model 1 n
Enterprise 1 n
Establishment
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