26th Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers

International Roundtable on Business Survey Frames

Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 24–27 September 2018

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Agenda & Papers & Presentations

24 September

Time Program
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 12:30 Session 1
Country Progress Reports Session 1: Country Progress Reports
Session Leader: Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland

Albania; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; Bulgaria; Canada; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; Egypt; Estonia; European Central Bank; European-Union; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Indonesia; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Latvia; Lesotho; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malaysia; Malta; Mexico; Mongolia; Montenegro; New-Zealand; Norway; Palestine; Poland; Portugal; Republic of Macedonia; Republic of Serbia; Republic of Tajikistan; Russia; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sultanate of Oman; Sweden; Switzerland; The Netherlands; The Czech Republic; Tunisia; Turkey; Ukraine; United-Kingdom; USA
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Session 2
Innovation in Statistical Business Registers
Session Leader: Arturo BLANCAS ESPEJO, INEGI (Mexico)

  • One statistical business register for Statistics Netherlands and the Dutch Central bank. Barry Coenen, Statistics Netherlands. Margreet van Brummelen, De Nederlandsche Bank.
  • The Use of Google Maps Geocoding API and Google Places API Web Service Data for Automation of Updating and Matching Processes in Statistical Business Register. Rr. Nefriana and Lien Suharni, Badan Pusat Statistik – Statistics Indonesia.
  • Managing the transition to a new Statistical Business Register. Andrew Allen, Office for National Statistics.
  • Statistical Business Register As The Engine of the Knowledge-Engined Respondent Engagement Management System (KREMS) Framework. Rr. Nefriana, Lien Suharni, Badan Pusat Statistik – Statistics Indonesia. Win Ce, Bina Nusantara University.
15:30 – 16:00 Transfer to the FSO main building
16:15 Group Photo
16:30 – 17:30 Keynote Speaker 1: Organisation of Chain Management, Irene Salemink.
17:30 – 18:00 The Eurostat Business Register Manual
18:00 – 19:30 Welcome Reception

25 September

Time Program
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 11:00 Session 3
Integrated Statistical Register Systems
Session Leader: Andrew ALLEN, ONS (UK)

  • Statistics Canada’s Register Integration Project and the Implications for the Business Register. Jamie Brunet and co-authors Statistics Canada.
  • The profile of entrepreneurs in international trade businesses. P. Cella, C. Viviano ISTAT.
  • How the Data lake approach can strengthen the SBR role and vice versa. Irene Salemink, Statistics Netherlands.
  • The Interoperability Framework of the European System of Business Registers Enrica Morganti, Eurostat.
  • Redevelopment of Ireland’s Central Business Register – A Centre for Business Statistics Transformation. Patrick Kelleher, Central Statistics Office Ireland.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 4
Administrative Data
Session Leader: Irene SALEMINK, CBS (Netherlands)

  • Functioning of national business registers and their international cooperation. Ricco Dun, Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF).
  • The French Business register for the economic restructuring. Olivier Haag, Insee.
  • The Administrative data as a source of updating Statistical Business Register. Motseoa Molahlehi, Lesotho Bureau of Statistics.
  • Micro-data linking and macroeconomic indicators: First results for Switzerland. Sam Banatte, Camille Gonseth, Swiss Federal Statistical Office.
  • Connect the Corporate Dots Globally with the LEI. Clare Rowley and Ricco Dun, Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF).
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Keynote Speaker 2: Production Processes of Official Statistics & Analytics Processes Augmented by Analytics of Things: Friends or Foes? Prof. Diego Kuonen.
15:00 – 16:00 Session 5
New Data Sources
Session Leader: Ronald JANSEN, UNSD

  • Big Data – New data sources. Steen Eiberg Jørgensen, Statistics Denmark.
  • New Data Sources. Dimitar Nenkov. David Broska, Eurostat.
    Johannes Frey, Sebastian Hellmann, Leipzig University.
  • Data Innovation Strategy. Bertrand Loison – Swiss Federal Statistical Office.
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Session 5
New Data Sources
Session Leader: Ronald JANSEN, UNSD

  • The Analytical Database on Individual Multinational and their Affiliates (ADIMA). OECD.
  • New sources for the SBR: first evaluations on the feasibility of using big data in the SBR production process. Bianchi G., Consalvi M., Gentili B., Pancella F., Scalfati, Summa D., Istat.
17:30 – 18:00 Guidelines on the use of SBR for business demography and entrepreneurship statistics.

 

26 September

Time Program
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:30 Session 6
Profiling and Globalisation
Session Leader: Merja RANTALA, Eurostat

  • Manual profiling in cooperation with the MNE: Italian experience and the quality improvement of economic statistics. F. Alonzi, S. Marchettoni, ISTAT.
  • The implementation of ISTAT automatic profiling to support the delineation of complex enterprises. F. Alonzi, S. Migliardo, ISTAT.
  • Profiling in Statistics Sweden: How to describe reality in a complex business environment. Caisa Bergman, Richard Nilsson, Statistics Sweden.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 6
Profiling and Globalisation
Session Leader: Merja RANTALA, Eurostat

  • Collaboration SBR and EGR. Rico Konen, Statistics Netherlands.
  • Profiling in Germany – evaluation of the first test year. Simon Rommelspacher, Federal Statistical Office Germany, Destatis.
  • An Iterative Enterprise Group Algorithm. Jakob Hruby, Statistik Österreich, Austria.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 22:00 Excursion

 

27 September

Time Program
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:30 Session 7
Quality and Coverage of Statistical Business Registers
Session Leader: Pierrette SCHUHL, INSEE (France)

  • Efforts to enhance the quality of the Economic Census in Japan. Masatsugu Kitahara, Masao Takahashi Statistics Bureau of Japan.
  • Statistical businesses register as a bridge between statisticians and respondents. Daliute Kavaliauskiene. Statistics Lithuania
  • Developing an Integrated Point of Contact Coding Service for Industry Classification. Nick Skondreas, Australian Bureau of Statistics.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Session 7
Quality and Coverage of Statistical Business Registers (SBR)
Session Leader: Pierrette SCHUHL, INSEE (France)

  • Updating and monitoring the NACE code of single-establishment enterprises in the Swiss business register. Monika Ferster, Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Statistical Methods Unit.
  • Statistical Business Registers User Survey. Iliyana Iskrenova, Zsolt Völfinger. Eurostat.

  • Connect the dots with high quality LEI data. Introducing the GLEIF data quality management program.     Zornitsa Manolova, Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF).
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote Speaker 3: TOOP: The Once Only Principle Project, Prof. Alessia Neuroni.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 Session 8
Output of Statistical Business Registers
Session Leader: Roland STURM, Destatis (Germany)

  • Outputs of the Montenegrin Statistical Business Register.
     Marijana Popovic, Roncevic, MSc. Statistical Office of Montenegro.
  • Multinational enterprise groups in the EU – Dissemination from the EuroGroups Register. Agne Bikauskaite. Zsolt Volfinger, Eurostat.
  • Confidentialising Business Demography output tables using the Noise for Counts and Magnitudes (NCM) method. Frances Krsinich, Stats NZ (Statistics New Zealand).
  • Basic Statistics on Korean SMEs using Business Registers. An Eunjin,
    Statistics Korea.
  • Comparing enterprise creation across countries: some reflections. OECD.
16:00 – 16:30 Closing of the meeting
16:30 – 17:30 Meeting of the Wiesbaden Steering Group