Statistics Portugal « (Quality 2008 - Rome, 10 July 2008) « Simplified Business Information: « Improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal.

Statistics Portugal

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(Quality 2008 - Rome, 10 July 2008) «

Simplified Business Information:

«Improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

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Background

Legal obligations for Portuguese enterprises:

Settlement of accounts to the Public Register of Annual Reports;

Annual accounting and fiscal information;

Statistical data on its accounts to the Statistics Portugal;

Information on its accounts to the Portuguese Central Bank.

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«Simplified Business Information:

improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

«Background

Political support for better coordination among institutions.

Public entities involved.

Private entities and national associations.

New legislation. «

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improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

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Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using

administrative data in Portugal

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«The main advantages for enterprises

Presenting in a single moment accounting data for taxes, legal and statistical purposes;

Financing and Insurance enterprises: no increase of burden (IES and Supervisors);

Accountants could provide all data from their systems once the Software was adapted.

Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using

administrative data in Portugal

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«The main advantages for Statistics Portugal

All data will be received in electronic format;

Covers all the enterprises;

Earlier access to data – data submitted 6 months after the end of the economic exercise => end of June, 90% of data will be available.

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administrative data in Portugal

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SBS survey

• Data submitted by electronic means or paper questionnaire;

• Contacts with enterprises;

• Electronic data with different format from Taxes declaration;

• Non responses are estimated;

• Answers were receiving until January n+2.

Simplified Business Information

• All data is received by electronic means;

• Data is be transferred to Statistics Portugal daily;

• No need for estimations;

• By the end of June n+1, 90% of data is available.

The Main differences:

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administrative data in Portugal

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Enterprises

submission of data

Electronic Collection

Taxes System

Public Register of Annual Reports

Statistics Portugal

Portuguese Central

Bank

Validation process

48 hours48 hours

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administrative data in Portugal

Statistics

Portugal

Contacts with enterprises

Statistical Statistical ConfidentialityConfidentiality

Data store

Data ware house

SBS

Business

RegisterSurvey

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Validation process

Editing process

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improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

Calibration

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“The Secret of Our Success” (I)

All institutions agree on:

Concepts and definitions in use by Statistics Portugal;

Respecting the EU (statistical) Regulations;

Including data for Statistics Portugal;

Statistics Portugal commitment to eliminate redundancies.

Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using

administrative data in Portugal

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“The Secret of Our Success” (II)

Chamber of Chartered Accountants.

Accounting Software houses.

Coordination with National High Authorities.

48 local workshops with 21 000 accountants;

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administrative data in Portugal

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“The Secret of Our Success” (III)

Call Centre.

Enterprises involvement.

Flexibility in first year of the IES.

Strong political support to the all process.

No delays in legislation preparation.

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administrative data in Portugal

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The Impact on Business Statistics

Structural Business Statistics survey was eliminate for 2006 onwards.

Data on key variables are not collected in other surveys.

Consistency of data.

Specific surveys are still carried out.

Improve of data quality.

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administrative data in Portugal

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Conclusions:

Political support was the key.

Entities actively involved.

Involving the enterprises.

Statistics Portugal commitment not collect data more than once.

Data quality was improved.

Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using

administrative data in Portugal

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«Final Remark

This is real. Please try it at home

(but not alone)!

Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using

administrative data in Portugal

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Improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

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Knowledge. Decision.

Thanks for your attention.

Rome, 10 July 2008