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

2. « 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. « « Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

3. « Background  Political support for better coordination among institutions.  Public entities involved.  Private entities and national associations.  New legislation. « « Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

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5. « « 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

6. « « 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. Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

7. « « 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: Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

8. « « Enterprises submission of data Electronic Collection Taxes System Public Register of Annual Reports Statistics Portugal Portuguese Central Bank Validation process 48 hours Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

9. Statistics Portugal Contacts with enterprises Statistical Confidentiality Data store Data ware house SBS Business Register Survey 1 Survey... Survey n Validation process Editing process « « Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal Calibration

10. « « “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

11. « « “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; Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

12. « « “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. Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

13. « « 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. Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

14. « « 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

15. « « Final Remark This is real. Please try it at home (but not alone)! Simplified Business Information: improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal

16. Information. « « Simplified Business Information « Improving quality by using administrative data in Portugal cristina.neves@ine.pt Knowledge.Decision. Thanks for your attention. Rome, 10 July 2008