Editing Strategies for VAT Data

1. Editing Strategies for VAT Data Peter Kruiskamp

2. Contents • Introduction • Data conversion • Usage of VAT data • Present • Future • Editing strategy • Micro editing • Fiscal Units • Statistical Units • Macro editing • Conclusions Editing VAT Data

3. Introduction • Response Burden in Economical Statistics • Turnover in Short-Term Statistics: VAT data • Fiscal Units vs. Statistical Units Editing VAT Data

4. Data Conversion • VAT-declaration • Conversion • Fiscal Unit  Fiscal Person • Fiscal Person  Legal Unit . • Legal Unit  Statistical Unit Editing VAT Data

5. Editing VAT Data

6. Usage of VAT data • Present: Auxiliary to Survey data • Plausibility check • Correction • Imputation • Suppletion • Weighing Editing VAT Data

7. Usage of VAT data • Future: Replacing Survey Data • Small- and mediumsized enterprises • Consequences on editing methods Editing VAT Data

8. Editing strategy • Micro editing • Fiscal Units and and Editing VAT Data

9. Editing strategy • Statistical Units • Parameter optimisation • VAT-assessments • Macro editing or Editing VAT Data

10. Conclusions Using VAT data for Short-Term Statistics is not straightforward • Conversion • Data editing Editing VAT Data