Linking Trade with Structural Business Statistics Eurostat Progress Report

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Linking Trade with Structural Business
StatisticsEurostat Progress Report

• Karo Nuortila
• Eurostat/Unit G3
• International Trade Statistics - Production

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Trade and business statistics in globalisation
analysis

• Statistics on trading of goods describe trade
  flows between countries with a breakdown of
  products
• Monthly statistics with detailed breakdowns of
  products and partner countries
• No data on traders (no explicit statistical
  units)
• Business Statistics describe the structure and
  evolution of activities of businesses
• Annual (SBS) or monthly (STS) statistics with a
  great number of variables
• Basic breakdown according to the economic
  activity
• Limited information on external trade
• Trade and business statistics are based on
  different concepts and classification, thus using
  them separately may provide incoherent basis for
  analysing the effects of external trade on
  production, employment and enterprises
  performances. Globalisation makes the analysis
  even more complicated as international production
  and supply chains are changing
• Analysis on the impacts of globalisation on
  economies requires new combined statistics,
  compiled with sound methodology

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Trade statistics by enterprise characteristicspr
oject history in brief

• First discussions and methodological studies
  started in late 1990s.
• Four centralised pilot studies undertaken since
  2002
• Reference years 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2005
• Actions by the EU Member States co-financed by
  the Commission
• Methodology developed over time
• Changes in indicators, breakdowns and compilation
  rules
• Currently 6 indicators with harmonised breakdowns
  

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Trade statistics by enterprise characteristicsPi
lot study for reference year 2005

• Preparatory meeting in October 2007
• Launched officially in November 2007
• Methodological changes
• All indicators are split into intra- and
  extra-EU25
• Some minor modifications to breakdowns
• New data collection form includes more metadata
  and data validation sheet
• Data is available for 19 MSs and 1 EFTA country
• Some highlights of the data are shown in
  following slides. Complete data (Excel sheets)
  are available in public Circa site
  http//circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/dsis/trade/libra
  ry?l/basic_documentation/characteristicsvmdetai
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Preparation of legal basis

• Intrastat and Extrastat legal acts are currently
  under revision
• Basic Regulations
• Accepted by the Commission, discussion continues
  in the Council and Parliament
• Targets to enter into force Intrastat 2009 or
  2010, Extrastat 2010
• Include a standardised article on trade by
  business characteristics
• Requirement on annual compilation, based on
  linkages to business registers
• Detailed requirements will be described in the
  Implementing rules (Commission Regulations)
• Implementing rules
• First drafts of implementing rules have been
  prepared and discussed in working groups
• The proposal covers main topics such as scope,
  statistical units, variables, indicators,
  periodicity, delay and confidentiality

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Way forward

• Annual studies will continue
• Voluntary until legal acts have been adopted
• Minimize changes to data requests
• Allow comparison over time and decrease workload
  of Member States
• Further methodological developments
• Intra- and extra-EU trade not comparable in terms
  of number of enterprises gt under-coverage of
  SMEs in intra-EU trade
• Matching of complicated businesses trade may be
  allocated to headquarter instead of true trader
  gt biased results
• Development of IT-tools and improvement of
  publications
• New IT-system needed to support data treatment,
  validation and publishing
• Integration into existing data dissemination
  tools
• New publications (SIFs, working papers) to
  highlight main findings
• New areas to be studied in the frame of MEETS
  programme