21st Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers - International Roundtable on Business Survey Frames, Paris, 24 - 27 November 2008

10h-10h15

Welcome and opening

• Adoption of the agenda

Session 1.

Country Progress Reports (Andreas Lindner, OECD)

10h15-13h

• Austria

• Brazil

• Canada

• China

• Croatia

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• Eurostat

• Estonia

• France

• Germany

• Greece

• Hungary

• Ireland

• Italy

• Japan

• Latvia

11h30-12h

Coffee break

• Luxembourg

• Mozambique

• Mexico

• Netherlands

• Norway

• OECD

• Oman

• Poland

• Portugal

• Slovenia

• South Africa

13h-14h30

Lunch break

14h30-15h

• Turkey

• United Kingdom

• United States

Session 2.

15h-18h

The need for global, integrated, statistical systems - identifying best practices for  BRs

2a: The statistical perspective from NSOs and other data providers (Session leader Roland Sturm, Germany)

Business Registers and national accounts (Piet Verbiest, Netherlands)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Business Units and the Concept of International Orientation (Margreet van Brummelen, Martin Luppes, Netherlands)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Reorganization of Manufacturing Sector Statistics due to the Dynamics of its Business Units (Ana Maria Landeros Diaz, Mexico)

Paper (PDF)
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The system for co-ordination of frame populations and samples from the Business Register (Isabel Farinha, Jorge Magalhaes, Portugal)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

16h30-17h

Coffee Break

2b: The user perspective from analytical needs  (Session leader Andreas Lindner, OECD)

Analyzing the Innovative Activity of Young Businesses: Perspectives and Difficulties Using Administrative Data (Claire Lelarge,OECD/STI)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Expanding the usage of the ECB's "Register of Institutions and Assest database"(RIAD), (Peter Neudorfer, ECB)

Paper (PDF)

Analysing globalisation, entrepreneurship and SMEs: data needs (Mariarosa Lunati, OECD/CFE)

Presentation (PDF)

Session 3.

9h30-12h30

Costs and Benefits of Profiling (Session leader John Perry,United  Kingdom)

Business Profiling - A summary of Current Practice (John Perry, UK)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Profiling in the Netherlands - Practices (Maria Piszczek & René Heijstek , Netherlands)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

11h -11h30

Coffee Break

Profiling in Switzerland - Costs and benefits (David Ackermann, Switzerland)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Profiling by the large business unit in South Africa (Marietha Gouws, South Africa)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PDF)

Eurostat Plans for Profiling of Multinational Groups (Claude Macchi, Eurostat)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Profiling for the EuroGroups Register (Dominique Francoz, France)

Presentation (PPT)

12h30 - 14h

Lunch Break

Session 4.

14h-16h30

Concepts and Methods for Information and Data Sharing (Session leader Norbert Rainer, Austria)

Adaptation of the SBR to changing external conditions  ( Søren Schiønning Andersen, Denmark)

Paper (PDF)
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Data sharing and dissemination from Finnish Business Register (Timo Laukkanen, Finland)

Paper (PDF)
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New Joint System of Institutional Joint for the definition of the NACE-Classification of Economic Activities (enterprises) SINACE (Isabel Farinha and Jorge Magalhaes, Portugal)

Paper (PDF)
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15h30 -16h

Coffee Break

The creation of a unique enterprise number in Switzerland (Pascal Utz,  Switzerland) 

Paper (PDF)
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Session 5

16h30-18h

Projects on the Improvement of Business Registers (Claude Macchi, Eurostat)

The implementation of tools to support the data quality of the survey frame ( Mario Ménard and Rock Lemay, Canada)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Potential New Content and structure for the U.S. Census Bureau's Business Register  (Shirin Ahmed, Eddie J. Salyers and Paul Hanczaryk , USA)

Paper (PDF)
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The French business register : from a quality approach to a statistical register ( Anne Skalitz, France)

Paper (PDF)
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19h30

Session 5.

(cont'd) 9h30- 11h

Information from additional administrative data sources for Business Register (Anke Rink, Germany)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Application fo regular expressions in the German Business Register (Patrizia Moedinger, Germany)

Paper (PDF)
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The setting up of Farm register: the production process to building up the prototype of the pre-census list (Caterina Viviano, Italy)

Paper (PDF)
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11h-11h30

Coffee break

Session 6.

11h30-18h

New areas of research

11h30-14h30

Session 6a: Entrepreneurship indicators, Business Demography and SMEs  (Session leader Hartmut Schroer, Eurostat)

Methodology to continue the Dutch Harmonised Data Collection (H.J. Konen, Netherlands)

Paper (PDF)

An Empirical Analysis to investigate on High Growth definition (Patricia Cella and Mirella Morrone, Italy)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Developments in UK Business Demography (Andrew Allen, UK)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

12h30 - 14h

Lunch Break

Entrepreneurship Indicators: "Employer Business Demography" and High-growth enterprises in Europe (Hartmut Schroer, Eurostat)

 Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

14h30- 15h30

Session 6b: Integrating economic business statistics with trade (Session leader Clancy Barrett, Canada)

Bridging trade statistics with Business statistics- Eurostat's experiences of Register linkages (Karo Nuortila, Eurostat)

Paper (PDF)
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Linking trade statistics with business statistics-OECDs global approach (Andreas Lindner & Florian Eberth, OECD)

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15h30-16h

Coffee Break

16h

Session 6c: Measurement of multinationals and enterprise groups (Session leader Dominique Francoz, France)

Integration of Register's and Surveys' data on MNEs (Enrica Morganti (ISTAT), Italy)

Paper (PDF)
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Eurogroups Register Project -  Further development in 2008/2009 (Matthias Nahm, Eurostat)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Commercial sources & compiling statistics (Floortje Sniedt, Statistics Netherlands)

Presentation (PPT)

Session 7.
9h30-12h30

The needs and solutions in OECD accession countries, BIICS, and developing countries (Session leaders 7a - 7c: OECD and UNECE)

Session 7a: OECD Accession countries experience and response (Russian Federation, Chile, Israel, Estonia and Slovenia) - (Session leader Tim Davis, OECD):

Business register - CBS Israel (levi Avigail, Israel)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

Administrative sources used in the field of statistical business register (Aleksandra Lešnjek, Slovenia)

Paper (PDF)
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Session 7b: BIICS countries experience and response (Brazil, India, Indonesia, China, South Africa) - Session leader Andreas Lindner, OECD)

The Brazilian experience and response (Bruno Erbisti, Brazil) 

Paper (PDF)

Business Maintenance and updating in the census year in China (China)

Paper (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)

11h-11h30

Coffee Break

Business Register needs and solutions for statistics in South Africa (Marietha Gouws, South Africa)

Presentation (PPT)

Session 7c:  Experience and response in developing countries (Session leader Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich, UNECE)

Statistical Business Registers in the CIS Countries; A brief overview (Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich, UNECE)

Paper (PDF)
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Experience in Armenia and Azerbaijan (John Perry, United Kingdom)

Paper (PDF)
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Experience and response in developing countries: the twinning project with the Tunisian National Statistical Institute (Monica Consalvi, ISTAT, Italy)

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12h30-14h

Lunch break

14h30-16h

Outcome and conclusions of Sessions 1 to 7, the way forward

• Terms of Reference of the Wiesbaden Group
• Future Work Programme
• Date and place of the 22nd  Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group
• Closing of the 21st  Meeting

Convener summary

Presentation (PPT)

16h/16h30

WGBR Steering Group meeting (restricted access)

Strategic priorities in future work, organisational coordination issues (such as with  the UNECE/EUROSTAT/OECD Seminars), report to UNSC, etc.