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Enhancing Economic Statistics: Challenges and Strategies for an Integrated Business Register

This presentation delves into the complexities of an Integrated Business Register, addressing issues such as duplicates, lack of common identifiers, and data sources like Income tax and VAT. It emphasizes the importance of understanding legal frameworks and classification systems for comprehensive coverage and accuracy in statistical reporting.

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Enhancing Economic Statistics: Challenges and Strategies for an Integrated Business Register

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  1. Presentation to UNSD regional workshop for African countries – Basic economic statistics Business register Marietha Gouws System of Registers 25 July 2007

  2. Stats SA Business Register • Business register complex (Flowchart) • (not a single database) • Integrated Business Register (IBR) • contributing agencies • legal entities • no single common identifier, matching algorithms • administrative data sources • Income tax, VAT, PAYE, UIF, SDL etc.

  3. Administrative data sources • Understand the source/s (legal framework) • Classification system • Comprehensive coverage • Duplicates • To transform it to a statistical businessregister • Statistical Units Model • Business rules - maintenance

  4. Business Register • General characteristics of BR • Database of statistical information(industry, size and geography) • Indicators – life status, measure of size, classifications, quality of the contact details, adequacy of coverage

  5. Business Register – problems identified (1/2) • Both procedures and system related • Weak communication • Documentation is in adequate • Absence of a quality management framework • Admin data not fully understood or used • Automated processing lacks integrity • Stats Unit model is not fully understood or used • Poorly conceived procedures for snapshot and sampling frame creation

  6. Business Register – problems identified (2/2) • Frames for surveys are out of date • Coverage and content related • Duplicates • Lack of a single identifier

  7. Business Register – further development • Action plan to implement the recommendations • System maintenance • Business rules • Suitable source for employer based surveys • Stats Unit model • Quality assurance framework • Classification (Industry and institutional) • Work completed • analysis on current admin sources • decision: maintenance admin source • snapshot and frame creation procedures and responsibilities

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