Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO ESSnet-Workshop Turning entreprise into local unit data P. Buchs 11. 02. 2011

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Contents of the presentation The past: Entreprise Census The future: SWIS Turning entreprise into local unit data: approaches What experiences were made in other countries? ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs 2

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS The past: Entreprise Census Statistic based on census (450’ 000 questionnaires) Input: data received from entreprises on local unit level Output: number of entreprises, local units, jobs and FTE per economic activity and municipality / meter coordinates Usage: - statistics - planning (traffic, environmental questions, land use) - fiscal transfers between federal, regional and local governments ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs 3

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS The future: SWIS Swiss Structural Economic Statistic SWIS shall be based on registers and administrative data: • Business and Entreprise Register BER • National Register of Buildings and Dwellings RBD (municipality, meter coordinates) • Social security system (persons employed) • Local unit data from multi-unit entreprises (persons employed + FTE) • New method to improve NOGA coding of BER units • Frequency: annual output instead of all 3 to 4 years • Only entreprise data, no local unit data • Employment level will rise by 20% due to new application of definitions ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs 4

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Turning entreprise into local unit data: approaches Approach 1: Persons employed based on 1 source: Social security data Persons employed assigned to BER-entreprises by record linkage Entreprise data SWIS multi-unit entreprises ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Persons employed identical (E_UNT) Distribution by distribution key Local unit data SWIS Collected data 5

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Application of distribution key Source: Profiling, Profiling Light, Job Statistics Source: Social security 1'000 persons employed A B C 400 300 1'100 persons employed X 0, 4 A X 0, 3 B X 0, 3 C ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs 440 330 6

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Turning entreprise into local unit data: approaches Approach 2: Persons employed based on several source: Social security data Persons employed assigned to BER-entreprises by record linkage Entreprise data SWIS Persons employed identical (E_UNT) Collected data Local unit data SWIS Replacement of social security-based employment data by collected data multi-unit entreprises ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs 7

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Turning entreprise into local unit data Hypothesis: On microdata level, employment data collected by social security system will differ from employment data collected directly from entreprises One source: Total number of persons employed for CH corresponds with reality, differences will show on sub-universes (regions, fields of industry) ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Several sources: Resultats closer for subuniverses, total of employed persons for CH will differ from the reality 8

Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS What were the experiences that were made in other countries when they changed from data-collection systems to administrative data? What were succesful methods in dealing with the problems ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs 9