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TRADE MICRODATA: The OECD-Eurostat Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) Database

Presentation on OECD-Eurostat Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) Database. Discussing Handbook on Trade Micro-data, TEC's status, and future perspectives. Evaluating data gaps, quality, and potential improvements. Seeking feedback on project proposals.

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TRADE MICRODATA: The OECD-Eurostat Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) Database

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  1. TRADE MICRODATA: The OECD-Eurostat Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) Database Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics (WPTGS) Paris, 8 November 2011

  2. Plan of the presentation: • Status of the Handbook on Trade Micro-data: • Inform on progress • Approve the content list • Consider the feasibility of answering a small survey intending to enhance the quality of the Handbook: • addressing information gaps • meeting methodological concerns • Status of the OECD-Eurostat TEC Database: • Inform on progress • Future Perspectives on TEC: • Enhance TEC’s potential to meet policy needs • Comment on feasibility and prioritisation of proposed topics

  3. HANDBOOK ON TRADE MICRO-DATA

  4. Content: • Rationale for Trade Micro-data • What can we learn about the microstructure of international trade? • How is that useful to inform policy making? • TEC database • Countries’ experiences in how trade micro-data has been used to inform policy • Methodological Chapter • Building a Trade Register • Linking Trade and Business Registers • Quality Indicators • Potential for more Micro-data Linkage

  5. Content (2): • The OECD-Eurostat TEC Database • Role of OECD and Eurostat and cooperation • TEC Questionnaire • Content (indicators, breakdowns, data availability) • Structure (dataset organisation) • Concepts and Definitions

  6. Feedback Required: • Approval of content and structure • Further suggestions on content • Evaluate the possibility of answering a survey on: • How trade micro-data has been used to inform policy • Experience on micro-data linkage • Methodological guidance and/or problems encountered (trade register: thresholds, data sources, longitudinal dimension) • Issues on international comparability

  7. THE OECD-EUROSTATTRADE BY ENTERPRISE CHARACTERISTICS DATABASE (TEC)

  8. 2011 Update: • Countries: • Extended TEC to new countries but others have not yet responded • Years: 2008-2009 (2010 for Turkey) • Main Changes: ISIC 3.1 to ISIC 4 • Data gaps • Quality: Matching Ratios

  9. Exporting is not everyone’s business

  10. Export Propensity Increases with Firm Size

  11. Evolution of Export Share of Large Firms

  12. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES: ENHANCING TEC’S POTENTIAL

  13. Project Proposal • Methodological Improvements: • Reducing unmatched data • Tackling confidentiality • Total Number of Enterprises for EU Member Countries • Achieving comparable Trade by Commodity Groups Statistics • Extending TEC by Incorporating New Variables: • Firm level characteristics: Ownership and Turnover • Adding a longitudinal dimension: new, persistent exporters • Include Trade in Services • Measuring the Value-Added of Exports • Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries in International Trade

  14. Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries Wholesalers and Retailers (% of total exporting enterprises, 2009) 14

  15. Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries Wholesalers and Retailers (% of total importing enterprises, 2009) 15

  16. Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries International Trade in Goods by Economic Sectors (% of total trade, 2009) 16

  17. Feedback Required: • Comment on overall proposal • Prioritisation: • Extend TEC to trade in services • Using trade micro-data to improve the estimates of trade in value-added measures • Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries • Adding more firm characteristics

  18. Thank you very much for your attention! sonia.araujo@oecd.org

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