Developing Business Data Collection

1. Developing Business Data Collection Nordic Statistical Meeting in Copenhagen 11-14 August 2010 Theme 3. Statistics Production Johanna Leivo johanna.leivo@stat.fi

2. Overview • Enterprise data collection program • Tasks and aims • Projects • Developing Business Data Collection • Services for respondents • Measurement of the response burden

3. Statistical Development programs Enterprise data collection2007-2011 Price and volume measurement system 2007-2011 Globalisation of enterprises2007-2010

4. Tasks and aims of the enterprise data collection programme • Coordinate statistics and development projects • Identify and evaluate development needs • Share information and good practises • 2012 • decline in response burden • business register used as a sample frame • sample coordination and optimization • standard solutions for data collection

5. Developing Business Data Collection – Services for respondents

6. Data collection service • The data collection section contains information about the inquiries and interviews • 60 independent data collection processes • with more than 30 respondents • Data collection pages, you can • find basic information about the inquiries • seek guidance for answering inquiries • log in to the inquiry / access to the paper questionnaire • find links to inquiry results • find contact information of statistics Statistics Finland

7. Data collection service Data collections Statistics Finland

8. Enterprise data collection service • Allows enterprises to check which Statistics Finland’s data collections concern them • Inform enterprises about data collections, response date and changes made to them • Aim is to facilitate enterprises the preparation for and responding to its data collections • The service contains data collections starting from 2006 • New data collections are added to it as samples are drawn for them • The service requires password Statistics Finland

9. Data collection service Statistics Finland

10. Enterprise data collection service Enterprise data collection service -content Statistics Finland

11. Developing Business Data Collection – Measurement of the response burden

12. Response burden (2009) • 60 direct data collections annually • 71,000 enterprises as respondents • 21 % of active enterprises received at least one data collection* • 68 % of all enterprise data suppliers received one data collection • All enterprises with over 50 employees received at least one questionnaire *active enterprise= liable to pay VAT on business operations, and/or employer enterprise or included in the withholding tax register

13. Measurement of the response burden • Statistics Finland and the National Board of Customs together measured response burden of direct enterprise data inquiries during 2008-2009 • Report statistical response burden yearly • by individual direct enterprise data inquiries • to enterprises of different sizes (category of personnel) • Repeat response burden measurements regularly Statistics Finland

14. Response burden 2008 • The number of staff-years (Source: Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) estimation about employees average working hour per annum (year 2008), staff-year = total of working hour / 1717,5) • Statistics Finland direct business data collections 190 staff-years • The National Board of Customs: Intrastat 210 staff-years • Costs (Source: Private sector monthly salaries average, year 2008, in Classification of Occupations: Clerks) • Statistics Finland direct business data collections € 8.3m • The National Board of Customs: Intrastat € 9.2m Statistics Finland

15. Statistics Finland total: Did you find that answering to the inquiry was? Statistics Finland

16. Statistics Finland total :Sources of response burden Statistics Finland

17. Conclusions • The aim is to achieve high-quality and coherent economic statistics and reduce response burden (Strategy for economic statistics and measures proposed for 2008-2012. Statistics Finland 2007) • Development focus on • direct data collections/automated direct data collection • services to data providers and enterprises (large) • methodological exploitation of administrative data • Tools • Programme for the development of data collections from enterprises 2007-2011 • Cooperation with data providers and respondents Hannele Orjala

18. Thanks! Questions?? • Contact information: • Enterprise data collection programme • Jukka Oikarinen (jukka.oikarinen@stat.fi) • Services for respondents, response burden • Johanna Leivo (johanna.leivo@stat.fi) • Coordination of samples • Ismo Teikari (ismo.teikari@stat.fi) • Usability testing for web surveys • Petri Godenhjelm (petri.godenhjelm@stat.fi) • Promoting direct data collection from the information systems of enterprises • Juha-Pekka Konttinen (juha-pekka.konttinen@stat.fi) • System for feedback statistics • Olli Hedman (olli.hedman@stat.fi) • Revision Project of Business Register, the use of administrative data • Sami Saarikivi (sami.saarikivi@stat.fi) • Cooperation with large companies • Tarja Hatakka (tarja.hatakka@stat.fi) • www.stat.fi/index_en.html Statistics Finland