Business Register in the Czech Statistical Office

1. Business Registerin the Czech Statistical Office Prepared by: Jan Matejcek CZSO, Prague, Czech Republic e-mail: matejcek@gw.czso.cz

2. Content of the presentation • Basic BR characteristics • Basic data sources for BR • Statistical units in the BR • Identification of BR units • Technical and technological characteristics of the BR • Data model characteristics • Short demonstration of BR software

3. Basic BR characteristics • History • starting point - 1974 • planned economy • BR as a nomenclature • current identification of businesses established - 1978

4. Basic BR characteristics • large changes from the beginning of the 1990s • content - new attributes (legal form, sector for national account, type of ownership, main and secondary activities, number of employees etc.) • new ways of BR use • new technology and organization

5. Basic BR characteristics • Current situation – legal framework (1) • legal regulation - The State Statistical Service Act - issued in 1995, amended in 2001 and in 2004 • BR for statistical purposes • conditions for BR administration including availability of administrative sources • unified identification of businesses • BR content • full historical register • multi-source register • statistical units - legal unit, enterprise, LU, KAU • recorded characteristics (attributes) • availability for public

6. Basic BR characteristics • Current situation – legal framework (2) • EU legal regulation • BR regulation • Statistical unit regulation • EU recommendations • BR recommendations

7. Basic BR characteristics • BR use • sample frames and samples for statistical surveys • imputations and estimates • information about business population • availability of public part of BR to public • on CD-ROM • on web pages of CzSO

8. administration of infor- mation Survey + data pro-cessing sample frame + sample demand for survey BR BR admini- stration data sources Basic BR characteristicsplace and role in statistics

9. BR Basic data sources for BR MJ MIT MI MC CSO MF CNB CSO MLSA MJ – Ministry of Justice MIT – Ministry of Industry and Trade MI – Ministry of Interior MC – Ministry of Culture MLSA – Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs MF – Ministry of Finance CNB – Czech National Bank CSO – Czech Statistical Office

10. Basic data sources for BR • Social security register • Register of small and large legal units • All legal units having employees • Used variables – number of employees, economic activity • Register of self-employed persons • All legal units not having employees • Used variables – number of employees=0, economic activity

11. Basic data sources for BR • Tax registers • VAT payers • Used variable – economic activity • Income tax payers – legal persons and natural persons • Used variable – economic activity, turnover, the way of accounting

12. Basic data sources for BR • LU from survey • Initial statistical survey on LU • enterprises > 20 employees • surveyed characteristics of LU • address, main activity, number of employees • results • 43% subjects defined more than 1 LU • 8% subjects defined more than 5 LU

13. Basic data sources for BR • KAU from profiling • results achieved in 2001 • 331 KAU were established • results achieved in 2002 and 2003 • further 51 new enterprises were profiled • 51 new KAU were established • enterprises profiled in 2001 and 2002 were verified

14. Basic data sources for BR • Economic activity evaluation • Sources • Social security registers • Vat payers register • Income tax payer register • Statistical survey • Result – legal unit is active if unit is active at least according one source

15. Statistical units in the BR Logical structure of the new harmonised BR

16. Statistical units in the BRBR content summary • Units numbers in the BR at the end of 2004 • 2 325977 legal units • 1 292044 enterprises (57,2% active legal units) • 1 334496 local units • 382 kind-of-activity units

17. Identification of BR units • identification number ICO • structure • each subject has only one ICO • used in all administrative registers 8-digit code: XXXXXXXX serial number check digit

18. Identification of BR units Identification code IČO (natural persons - also personal number) Legal unit IČO of dominant legal unit + Special identification code IDENT-E 1 : N Enterprise 1 : N LU (KAU) Special identification code IDENT-LU

19. Technical and technological characteristics of the BR • Centrally operated register in Prague • Hardware: • Server: HP GS60 under operating system True64 Unix, version 5.1, is the database server used for the BR • LAN for places in Prague • WAN for places outside of Prague - 6 regional offices • Software: • the relational database system Oracle 8.1.7 • Work stations Windows NT or Windows 2000 • client Oracle 8.0.5, Oracle Developer 6 • BR administration – 7 work places in the regions, on-line communication

20. Data model characteristics • the observation of statistical units and their attributes in the BR is fully historical • a multiple occurrence of an attribute can be recorded, the number of records being not limited (e.g. multiple occurrence of CZ-NACE) • the values of an attribute can be recorded at the same date from various sources and rules for their use in statistics are defined

21. Data model characteristics • variables are recorded according the type of unit (e.g. by legal form) • security model is applied - the roles of individual users are defined in detail • the system retains information on updating operations carried out in the Register – who performed the operation and when

22. Data model characteristics Multi-source register

23. BR data model Identification of legal unit variables - legal unit legal unit variables – natural person Changes – Relative view Identification of enterprise variables -enterprise address – coded enterprise Identification of LU (KAU) variables – LU (KAU) address – textual LU (KAU)

24. The End Thank you very much for your attention.