EUROPEAN COMMISSION - EUROSTAT
ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods
of business-related Statistics
2010 project on statistical units
n° 30121.2010.005 - 2010.405
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Qualitative analysis - KAU
CSO - Ireland
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ESSnet on Consistency – Project on Statistical Units – Workshop Riga 2012
19th and 20th June 2012
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Definition of Kind-of-activity unit (KAU):
The kind-of-activity unit groups all the parts of an enterprise contributing
to the performance of an activity at class level (four digits) of NACE
Rev.1 (2) and corresponds to one or more operational subdivisions of
the enterprise. The enterprise’s information system must be capable of
indicating or calculating for each KAU at least the value of production,
intermediate consumption, manpower costs, the operating surplus and
employment and gross fixed capital formation.
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Recall the role of KAU in the ‘spine’ of Business Regulations
The Statistical Unit Regulation
distinguishes and defines Enterprise,
KAU, Local Unit and Local KAU
The Business Register Regulation requires
information to be held on Enterprise and
Local Unit but not on KAU or Local KAU.
Some variables in the SBS Industry
and Construction modules should be
based on KAU as well as on
Enterprise, some on Enterprise only.
The Industry and Construction Annexes of
the STS Regulation specify KAU as the
only statistical unit to be used.
The other SBS modules are based on
Enterprise
The Retail and Other Services Annexes
specify Enterprise.
The National Accounts Regulation specifies Institutional Units (~ Enterprise) as
the unit for describing income, expenditure and financial flows, and balance
sheets. It specifies Local KAU as the unit for describing processes of production
and for input-output analysis.
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Respondent Countries by presence of KAU in the statistical domains
Business
Register
x
x
x
STS Industry (Annex A) - STS Retail Trade and Repair
Structural
Production and Turnover (Annec C) and Other Services
Business Statistics
Indexes
(Annex D) - Turnover Index
x
x
x
x
x
x
Total
x
x
x
x
x
13
2
1
6
4
4
1
2
1
19
x
11
17
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Which countries have KAU and/or Local KAU on Business Register?
Local KAU –
10 countries
KAU – 11
countries
AT, RO, SK,
UK
CY,
DK,
EE,
HU,
LT,
LV,
SE
FI, NO, PL
29 countries answered the questions on KAU (Iceland and Liechtenstein did not).
15 of these 29 countries do not have KAU or Local KAU on their Business Register.
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Which countries have KAU in SBS?
17 countries can observe/estimate some or all variables for
KAU in SBS, using information available in the BR or from
other sources.
3 countries definitely cannot observe/estimate any variables
for KAU in SBS.
9 countries – Do not identify KAU
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Countries
Identification of Kau and
availability of all of the
mandatory six variables
AT; ES; LT; LU; PT; SE; SK; UK
Identification of Kau and
availability of at least one
variables (from 1 to 5)
CY; DK; EE; FR; HU; IT; LV; RO; SI
Identification of Kau and
availability of NO variables
DE; IE; NL
NO identification of Kau or NO BG; CZ; BE; CH; EL; FI; MT; NO; PL
sufficient information
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
N° of Enterprises
Can observe/estimate at least Value of
Production and Employment
Of which can observe/estimate all
mandatory variables
Not answer or the answers are unclear
Total
Employment
61,9
62,4
25,8
33,4
38,1
37,6
32.984.335
169.183.449
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Which countries have KAU in STS Industry?
KAUs are the ones identified in the Business
Register without any further manipulation (7)
AT, DK, EE, LT, LV, SE, UK
KAUs are identified by SBS (2)
EL, IT
KAUs are identified using both the BR and other
sources (3)
FI, LU, SI, FR
Enterprise is observed statistical unit (10)
BG, CH, CZ,, HU, MT, NL, PL, RO, SK
Local Unit is observed statistical unit (4)
BE, DE, ES, IE
Local KAU is observed statistical unit (2)
NO, PT
Not answered (1)
CY
Countries that gave different answers in the STS Industry – Production are
underlined.
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Which countries have KAU in STS Retail and STS Other Services?
FI was the only country to indicate they use KAU in STS Retail
FI and UK were the only countries to indicate they use KAU in
STS Other Services
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ESSnet on Consistency of Concepts and Methods of business-related Statistics. WP1 Statistical units
The Inquiry on the Statistical Units
Conclusions
The majority of the NSIs are not compliant with the KAU definition
of the SU Regulation that is mandatory for SBS and STS
Only 8 NSIs
(corresponding to 25.8% of the European Enterprises and
to the 33.4 of the European Employment)
observe/estimate the compulsory 6 variables
Limiting the KAU definition to the observation of “value of production”
and “employment” the coverage increase to 61.9% and 62.4%
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