1. Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO ESSnet-Workshop Turning entreprise into local unit data P. Buchs 11.02.2011

2. 2 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Contents of the presentation The past: Entreprise Census The future: SWIS Turning entreprise into local unit data: approaches What experiences were made in other countries?

3. 3 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS The past: Entreprise Census Statistic based on census (450’000 questionnaires) Input: data received from entreprises on local unit level Output: number of entreprises, local units, jobs and FTE per economic activity and municipality / meter coordinates Usage: - statistics - planning (traffic, environmental questions, land use) - fiscal transfers between federal, regional and local governments

4. 4 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS The future: SWIS Swiss Structural Economic Statistic SWIS shall be based on registers and administrative data: Business and Entreprise Register BER National Register of Buildings and Dwellings RBD (municipality, meter coordinates) Social security system (persons employed) Local unit data from multi-unit entreprises (persons employed + FTE) New method to improve NOGA coding of BER units Frequency: annual output instead of all 3 to 4 years Only entreprise data, no local unit data Employment level will rise by 20% due to new application of definitions

5. 5 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Turning entreprise into local unit data: approaches Approach 1: Persons employed based on 1 source: Social secu- rity data Entre- prise data SWIS Local unit data SWIS Persons employed assigned to BER-entreprises by record linkage Persons employed identical (E_UNT) Collected data Distribution by distribution key multi-unit entreprises

6. 6 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Application of distribution key 400 300 440 330 X 0,4 X 0,3 1'100 persons employed Source: Social security A B C A B C 1'000 persons employed Source: Profiling, Profiling Light, Job Statistics

7. 7 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Local unit data SWIS Entre- prise data SWIS Turning entreprise into local unit data: approaches Approach 2: Persons employed based on several source: Collec- ted data Replacement of social security-based employment data by collected data Social secu- rity data Persons employed assigned to BER-entreprises by record linkage Persons employed identical (E_UNT) multi-unit entreprises

8. 8 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Turning entreprise into local unit data Hypothesis: On microdata level, employment data collected by social security system will differ from employment data collected directly from entreprises One source: Total number of persons employed for CH corresponds with reality, differences will show on sub-universes (regions, fields of industry) Several sources: Resultats closer for sub- universes, total of employed persons for CH will differ from the reality

9. 9 ESSnet-Workshop | Turning entreprise into establishment data P. Buchs Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI Bundesamt für Statistik BFS What were the experiences that were made in other countries when they changed from data-collection systems to administrative data? What were succesful methods in dealing with the problems