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The French Business Register : from a quality approach …. ….to a statistical register

This article provides a detailed description of SIRENE, the national business register in France, including its unique identification number system and the content of SIRENE, such as identification data and address of local units. It also highlights the importance of quality in the management of SIRENE, including quality operations and updates, checks, and surveys. The article discusses the links between quality operations and the Eurostat quality report, as well as the accessibility, timeliness, and comparability of information provided by SIRENE. Lastly, it explores the prospect of a new statistical register and the potential concepts and improvements that could be implemented.

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The French Business Register : from a quality approach …. ….to a statistical register

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  1. The French Business Register : from a quality approach ….….to a statistical register

  2. Description of SIRENE • SIRENE : • a national business register in which all businesses and their local units are registered • since 1994 : a unique identification number, at the core of the inter-administrative system • Content of SIRENE : • identification data : civil status of businesses, legal form, the date it was set up and when it ceased trading • address of local units • a code identifying the principal business activity carried out, number of employees • as SIRENE is used in the areas of statistics and trade : economic classification variables (list drawn up after consulting statisticians using the system)

  3. Inventory of users and requirements

  4. An “administrative” approach of the quality • Quality is taken into account in day-to-day management : • a workstation with automated processing capabilities (receiving standardized “administrative” information via EDI) which guarantees uniform processing • checks into the data-processing flow • Quality is taken into account as an “independent component” (“quality operations”) : • at the initiative of register managers • at the request of those in charge of surveys • The register managers bring into play quality with the limitations of an interadministrative register  Quite “administrative” approach of the quality

  5. Volumes of “quality operations” • Updates • each year 100,000 legal units with their activity code updated-validated • 3.5 million units (legal units or local units) with employee statistics • 2 million businesses with turnover statistics updated • Checks • 15,000 units checked at the request of statisticians (wrong address for example) • 15,000 possible duplicate entries examined • 50,000 units possibly misidentified as operational examined • Surveys • in 2007, 200,000 surveys-questionnaires sent for the introduction of the NACE

  6. Links between « quality operations » and Eurostat quality report ? 1/2 • “Relevant” component • the identification of statistical users and of their expectations taken into account • some “quality operations” based on the request of statisticians • “Accuracy” component • meaningless… • but the “quality operations” improve the “accuracy” of the sampling plans. • Timeliness and punctuality • register daily updated by administrative partners (sometimes insufficient ?) • mass updates : data are included as soon as available • discrepancies : examined as quick as possible.

  7. Links between « quality operations » and Eurostat quality report ? 2/2 • Accessibility and clarity of the information: • frozen versions of the business register (for all users or for specific needs) produced quarterly and yearly • each month : an extract of the register for the staff responsible of the dissemination of information • for all statisticians : a specific tool, to get all the data of a list of units, at a given date • Comparability of statistics : • few statistics spring from the register except “business demography”. • the day-to-day management of the register and the advanced level of automation provide comparability of statistics (in the time) • Coherence • maybe a lack of the register ?

  8. Towards a new statistical registerProspective 1/2 • Review : the use of SIRENE as a central tool for business statistics comes up against its twofold role • legal vs economic cessation • exhaustiveness vs reference groups • Recent overhaul of the annual business statistics: one of its outputs “to come” is a “statistical register” • Aims of the “statistical register” : • based on the “inter-administrative” register • and/but closer to the requirements of the statisticians.

  9. Towards a new statistical registerProspective 2/2 • New concepts • the definition of “statistical units” • the addition of specific data • the definition of “reference populations” • A new “quality management” • statisticians will manage quality • a “quality operation” # “checking all mistakes in a population” • more “statistical” updates • more automatized updates • => classification of sources (to solve inconsistencies between several sources) • Maybe the definition of indicators to measure quality of this statistical register

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