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Presentation to UNSD regional workshop for African countries – Basic economic statistics

Presentation to UNSD regional workshop for African countries – Basic economic statistics Business register Marietha Gouws System of Registers 25 July 2007. Stats SA Business Register. Business register complex (Flowchart) (not a single database) Integrated Business Register (IBR)

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Presentation to UNSD regional workshop for African countries – Basic economic statistics

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 Business Register – problems identified (2/2) • Frames for surveys are out of date • Coverage and content related • Duplicates • Lack of a single identifier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