Trade & Business Statistics
Geert Bruinooge
Statistics Netherlands
Content
• standard business ID numbers in national
administrations
• advantages and challenges of micro data
linking in research on business dynamics
and globalisation
• Internationalisation Monitor 2012
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Developing a Business Register (BR)
No controlled BR. Stand alone
registers used for separate
surveys.
Ad hoc tables, if any, on trade
and globalisation
BR that meets the basic needs of
developing countries (minimum
standards)
Non-linked aggregated tables
on trade and globalisation
BR that meets the needs of large
developed countries (e.g.
Eurostat standards)
Integrated micro data on
trade and globalisation
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Linking registers
• Government alignment in ID numbers
• The system of base registers and other
registers (e.g. tax register).
• Example: trade register: Links with other
base registers are encorporated in the
trade register
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Base registers: government policies
Trade Register
Social Security Administration
Society
Government institutions
Gov. Inst. A.
Gov. Inst. B.
Gov. Inst. ...
Gov. Inst. Z.
Other registers
Single filing
System of
Base Registers
Individuals
Companies
Institutions
Multiple use
Statistics Netherlands
Ownership and control relations
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System of base registers
Relations in the system of basic registers
Vehicles
Register
Income Register
Insurance Policy
Social
security
record
adminitration
Administration
Land Register
Topography
Register:
Lager scale
topography
Register
Property tax
Register
Subsoil Register
Persons Register
Trade
Register
(New) Trade
Register
Building
Register
Addresses
Register
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Entities in Trade Register and relations to
other registers
Natural Person
Person
or
Non-Natural Person
Company
Establishment
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Entities in Trade Register and relations to
other registers
Persons Register
Natural Person
Tax Register
Person
or
Non-Natural Person
Company
Establishment
Building and Adresses Register
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Research on business dynamics
• Starting point: ongoing changes and
(international) dynamics of business
population impacts outcomes for individuals
and society (income, productivity)
• Challenge: integrate all information and
describe determinants, effects and trends of
economic globalisation of the national
economy
• The answer: linking microdata on enterprises
to 1) describe/analyze the international
orientation structure of globalisation and 2)
analyze impacts on employment and welfare
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Concept of ‘international orientation’
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Why Micro Data Linking?
• It creates new knowledge without
increasing respondent burden
• It adds value to already collected data by
integrating the different registers
• It enables to fine tune surveys by focusing
on collecting information which is not
available from existing statistical registers,
e.g. the GVC survey in Europe
• Challenges: selectivity of samples and
registers, conceptual issues (enterprise
and enterprise group, other concepts)
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Micro data linking
1:M
1:N
Enterprise
Firm
Business Register
Statistics of
Finances of
Enterprises
International Trade
Fiscal Data
SBS & STS Surveys
Ownership
(UCI)/FATS
P:1
Job
Person
Job register
Population
register
Fiscal Data
Surveys
Persons and
Households
Investments
R&D
GVC Survey 2012
ESSNET GVC
Micro Data Linking
Project 2012/2013
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• Annual publication with different
themes
• Accrued output over 60 different
articles and 450 tables
• Users: Ministries (including
worldwide embassies), planning
offices
Globalisation Research Statistics Netherlands
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Internationalisation Monitor 2012
• Theme: enterprise dynamics
(demography) and the increasing
internationalisation:
• Entry/exits of international active
enterprises
• Its effects on the national economy
• The role of the financial crisis
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Survival rates new start-ups by trader type (cohort
2007)
82
88
89
1 year
92
62
69
3 years
70
78
55
61
61
5 years
71
0
10
Two-way traders
20
30
Importers only
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Exporters only
50
60
Non-traders
70
80
90
100
%
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Effects on economy, starters 2007
Dutch starters
Foreign controlled starters
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Turnover by type of trader
Business economy, Nace 10-74
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• More information on globalisation issues on
http://www.cbs.nl/enGB/menu/themas/dossiers/globalisering/nieuws/default.
htm
Thank You
Questions?
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