Session 2: Profiling complex Statistical Units (SUs)

Session Leader: Roland Sturm, National Statistics Office (Destatis), Germany

Profiling in a Business Register (BR) context is commonly referred to as a method to investigate the legal, operational and accounting structures in the business world in order to delineate the statistical units and maybe also efficient structures for the collection of statistical data. Depending on user demands profiling may focus on various units – to find out about the perimeter of complex enterprises can be as focal as “simply” detect their local units. Often the method starts from the most complex units in the real world – the enterprise groups.

The session aims to bring together worldwide experiences in BR how to provide business statisticians with a clear picture of the economic actors (enterprises, enterprise groups, units based on activity or on location). Which unit concepts and which relations/links between different units are implemented in the BR? What data sources provide information on the statistically relevant units? What practical issues occur and how are they dealt with when gathering and processing information about these units? Do the BR in different countries use common concepts and are the users in the statistical domains aware of the different types of units in the BR? How do we explain the appropriate use of BR data for different statistical purposes?

In this session, the participants are invited to present methodology, special sources, maintenance of the derivation of SUs in their own country.

An abstract of your paper should be submitted to the session leader (roland.sturm@destatis.de) and to the organizers (WiesbadenGroup2023@cbs.nl) by June 1, 2023.

Presenter	Country	Abstract	Paper	Presentation
"Happy Birthday 696/93" - Roland Sturm, Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis)	Germany	Abstract	Paper	Presentation
"Profiling Complex Statistical Units (SUs)" - Vikashni Lata, Ministry of Finance, Strategic Planning, National Development and Statistics Fiji Bureau of Statistics	Fiji	Abstract	Paper	Presentation
"Profiling in Germany – A practical inside from Lower Saxony" - Daniel Bödeker, Franziska Große, Dr. Anna Holtsch (Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen, federal statistical office of Lower Saxony)	Germany	Abstract	Paper	Presentation
"Profiling process of complex Statistical Units in Greece"  - Christina Karamichalakou, Adamantia Georgostathi, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT)	Greece	Abstract	Paper	Presentation
"Implementing the results of profiling in the Swedish Statistical Business Register" - Richard Nilsson, Statistics Sweden	Sweden	Abstract	Paper	Presentation
"A Top-tier approach for the largest Multinational Enterprise Groups in the EU" - Alexandre Depire, (EUROSTAT) Ioannis Sopranidis (EUROSTAT), Simon Rommelspacher (DESTATIS)	Eurostat	Abstract	Paper	Presentation
"OECD UNSD Multinational Enterprise Information Platform" - Graham Pilgrim	OECD	Abstract	Paper	Presentation