Mainstream Enterprise Statistics
Richard McMahon
Head of STS Division
Central Statistics Office, Ireland
Outline
 Overview of enterprise surveys
 Short-term business statistics
 Annual Structural Business Statistics
 Producer Prices
 Employment & Earnings
 Other enterprise level data collected
Operation of enterprise based surveys
Administrative data
Administrative data
CSO Business Register
Business Register
Postal surveys
Release
Eurostat
Publication
Ad hoc
Short-term business statistics
Purpose
 Short-term national indicators
 EU legal obligation
 Input into calculation of quarterly GDP
Key indicators
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Monthly Industrial Production
Retail Sales
Quarterly Production in Construction
Planning permissions (administrative data)
Future developments
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Monthly Services Index (Q1 2011)
Expansion of electronic reporting
Short-term statistics
Monthly
Quarterly
 Sample size
Industrial – 1,500 units
Retail – 2,000 units
Services (excl retail)– 2,500 units
 Sample size
Industrial – 1,500 units
Construction – 2,400 units
Services – 3,800 units
 Information collected
Turnover
Value/ quantity of goods
produced (industrial sector)
New Orders (industrial sector)
Central Statistics Office, Ireland
 Information collected
Value of work done & new
orders (construction sector)
Investment and disposals of
capital assets
Opening / closing stocks
(industrial and distributive
sectors)
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Structural business statistics
Purpose
Annual measure of structure and performance of traded sector
EU legal obligation
Input into calculation of annual GDP measures
Input into STS survey weights
Outputs
Publication : summary structural information
Web : detailed data classified by economic type and size,
region
Ad hoc analyses
Microdata file for researchers
Structural Business Statistics
Sample size
Industry : 5,000
Construction : 4,600
Services : 20,000
Data collected
Detailed P&L and balance sheet data
Product level data : Industrial sector and business services sector
firms with 20+ persons employed
Future plans
Use of revenue commissioners data for small enterprises from 2010
Producer prices
Purpose
Collection of Producer, Wholesale and Service Prices from
enterprises
Business-2-business; Business-2-Government
 Provide national indicator
 Use as deflators for STS and national accounts
 Use for contractual purposes
 EU legal obligations
Samples:
Industry & wholesale – 1,300 enterprises (around 7,000 products)
Selected Services sectors- 220 enterprises (around 65 service products)
Quarterly Earnings and Employment
Purpose
Short term indicators of employment, earnings and other labour
costs in both public and private sector organisations
 National indicator
 Use as input in national accounts
 EU legal obligations
Sample survey (EHECS)
Enterprise based postal survey of 7,500 enterprises
1/3 respond via payroll software
Short questionnaire introduced in 2010 for small firms
National Employment Survey
Purpose
Produce detailed data on the structure and distribution of earnings
in both public and private sector organisations
 National purposes
 EU legal obligations
Sample survey (NES)
 Enterprise based postal survey of 8,000 enterprises and 108,000
employees
 5% enterprises respond via payroll software (15% employees)
 Questionnaire reduced for reference year 2009
 Future – examine increased use of administrative data
Other data collected from enterprises
Balance of Payments
 Enterprises with large transactions with non-residents
Foreign Trade Statistics
 CSO receives Intrastat / Extrastat enterprise data from Revenue
Commissioners
Transport statistics
 Road freight information on activity of enterprises freight
vehicles