Trade & Business Statistics

Geert Bruinooge

Statistics Netherlands

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Content

• standard business ID numbers in national administrations

• advantages and challenges of micro data linking in research on business dynamics and globalisation

• Internationalisation Monitor 2012

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Developing a Business Register (BR)

BR that meets the needs of large developed countries (e.g.

Eurostat standards)

BR that meets the basic needs of developing countries (minimum

standards)

No controlled BR. Stand alone registers used for separate

surveys.

Integrated micro data on trade and globalisation

Non-linked aggregated tables on trade and globalisation

Ad hoc tables, if any, on trade and globalisation

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Linking registers

• Government alignment in ID numbers • The system of base registers and other

registers (e.g. tax register).• Example: trade register: Links with other

base registers are encorporated in the trade register

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Base registers: government policies

Society

IndividualsCompaniesInstitutions

Government institutions

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Trade Register

Social Security Administration

Ownership and control relations

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System of base registers

Income RegisterInsurance Policy

record Administration

Land Register Topography Register:

Subsoil Register

Lager scale topography

Register

Property tax Register

Persons Register (New) Trade Register

Building Register

Addresses Register

Vehicles Register

Relations in the system of basic registers

Trade Register

Social security adminitration

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PersonNatural Person or Non-Natural Person

Company

Establishment

Entities in Trade Register and relations to other registers

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PersonNatural Person or Non-Natural Person

Company

Establishment

Persons Register Tax Register

Building and Adresses Register

Entities in Trade Register and relations to other registers

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Research on business dynamics

• Starting point: ongoing changes and (international) dynamics of business population impacts outcomes for individuals and society (income, productivity)

• Challenge: integrate all information and describe determinants, effects and trends of economic globalisation of the national economy

• The answer: linking microdata on enterprises to 1) describe/analyze the international orientation structure of globalisation and 2) analyze impacts on employment and welfare

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Concept of ‘international orientation’

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Why Micro Data Linking?

• It creates new knowledge without increasing respondent burden

• It adds value to already collected data by integrating the different registers

• It enables to fine tune surveys by focusing on collecting information which is not available from existing statistical registers, e.g. the GVC survey in Europe

• Challenges: selectivity of samples and registers, conceptual issues (enterprise and enterprise group, other concepts)

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Micro data linking

Enterprise Firm Job Person

Statistics of Finances of Enterprises

International Trade Fiscal Data

Population register

Job register

Surveys Persons and Households

SBS & STS Surveys

R&D

Investments

Business Register

Fiscal Data

1 : M 1 : N P : 1

Ownership (UCI)/FATS

GVC Survey 2012

ESSNET GVCMicro Data LinkingProject 2012/2013

13Globalisation Research Statistics Netherlands

• Annual publication with different themes

• Accrued output over 60 different articles and 450 tables

• Users: Ministries (including worldwide embassies), planning offices

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Internationalisation Monitor 2012

• Theme: enterprise dynamics (demography) and the increasing internationalisation:

• Entry/exits of international active enterprises

• Its effects on the national economy

• The role of the financial crisis

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%Two-way traders Importers only Exporters only Non-traders

Survival rates new start-ups by trader type (cohort 2007)

Effects on economy, starters 2007

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Dutch starters Foreign controlled starters

Turnover by type of trader

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Business economy, Nace 10-74

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• More information on globalisation issues on http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/dossiers/globalisering/nieuws/default.htm

Thank You

Questions?