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Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Guidelines of Statistical Business Register Draft chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin Meeting of expert group on SBR Geneva 3 -4 September 2013

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Purposes Maintenance strategy of SBR • Maintenance = update in terms of coverage and content Taking into account • the sources of updates • the use of the SBR for constructing sampling frames • the time dimension Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 2

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Overview of content 7. 1 Maintenance strategy Administrative sources • Choice of a primary administrative source with best possible coverage and content • Criteria for the choice of secondary administrative sources Feedback from surveys • Potential bias • Use as signals Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 3

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Overview of content 7. 1 Maintenance strategy Control surveys • Verify existing data and obtain values for missing items Maintenance groups • Maintenance effort depends on size, impact, propensity to change, source Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 4

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Overview of content 7. 1 Maintenance strategy Timing of updates • At least once a year: creations and deletions, addresses, stratification variables • Timing of updates must take into account • the construction of the sampling frames • the economic statistic programm Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 5

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Overview of content 7. 2 Services: sampling frames • Common enterprise frame as a basis for the creation of survey frames for all economic surveys • Coherent system over time • for SBR updating • frame construction • sample selection for the business surveys Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 6

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Overview of content 7. 3 Demographic changes and continuity • Summary of relevant manuals 7. 4 Handling of changes in the SBR • Changes in the content: identification variables, stratification variables • Creations and deletions of legal and operational units, administrative units and statistical units Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 7

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Overview of content 7. 5 SBR maintenance: quality management aspects • Management of stakeholders and of data sources 7. 6 Treatment of errors • Summary of chapter 18 of the EU Business register Recommendation Manual Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 8

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Issues for further discussion and feedback • Do we need further investigation in point 7. 2 Services of this chapter? Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 9

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Requests for good practices/examples, from countries • Requests for good practices/examples, etc. from countries • Remarks, comments, proposals etc are welcome Draft Chapter 7 Fabio Tomasini – Paul André Salamin 10