1. TRADE MICRODATA: The OECD-Eurostat Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) Database
Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics (WPTGS)
Paris, 8 November 2011 1

2. Plan of the presentation:
Status of the Handbook on Trade Micro-data:
Inform on progress
Approve the content list
Consider the feasibility of answering a small survey intending to enhance the quality of the Handbook:
addressing information gaps
meeting methodological concerns
Status of the OECD-Eurostat TEC Database:
Future Perspectives on TEC:
Enhance TEC’s potential to meet policy needs
Comment on feasibility and prioritisation of proposed topics

3. HANDBOOK ON TRADE MICRO-DATA3

4. Content: Rationale for Trade Micro-data Methodological Chapter
What can we learn about the microstructure of international trade?
How is that useful to inform policy making?
TEC database
Countries’ experiences in how trade micro-data has been used to inform policy
Methodological Chapter
Building a Trade Register
Linking Trade and Business Registers
Quality Indicators
Potential for more Micro-data Linkage

5. Content (2): The OECD-Eurostat TEC Database
Role of OECD and Eurostat and cooperation
TEC Questionnaire
Content (indicators, breakdowns, data availability)
Structure (dataset organisation)
Concepts and Definitions

6. Feedback Required: Approval of content and structure
Further suggestions on content
Evaluate the possibility of answering a survey on:
How trade micro-data has been used to inform policy
Experience on micro-data linkage
Methodological guidance and/or problems encountered (trade register: thresholds, data sources, longitudinal dimension)
Issues on international comparability 6

7. THE OECD-EUROSTAT TRADE BY ENTERPRISE CHARACTERISTICS DATABASE (TEC)7

8. 2011 Update: Countries: Years: 2008-2009 (2010 for Turkey)
Extended TEC to new countries but others have not yet responded
Years: (2010 for Turkey)
Main Changes: ISIC 3.1 to ISIC 4
Data gaps
Quality: Matching Ratios s 8

9. Exporting is not everyone’s business
(2008 data)

10. Export Propensity Increases with Firm Size
(2008 data)

11. Evolution of Export Share of Large Firms

12. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES: ENHANCING TEC’S POTENTIAL12

13. Project Proposal Methodological Improvements:
Reducing unmatched data
Tackling confidentiality
Total Number of Enterprises for EU Member Countries
Achieving comparable Trade by Commodity Groups Statistics
Extending TEC by Incorporating New Variables:
Firm level characteristics: Ownership and Turnover
Adding a longitudinal dimension: new, persistent exporters
Include Trade in Services
Measuring the Value-Added of Exports
Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries in International Trade

14. Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries
Wholesalers and Retailers (% of total exporting enterprises, 2009) 14 14

15. Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries
Wholesalers and Retailers (% of total importing enterprises, 2009) 15 15

16. Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries
International Trade in Goods by Economic Sectors
(% of total trade, 2009) 16

17. Feedback Required: Comment on overall proposal Prioritisation:
Extend TEC to trade in services
Using trade micro-data to improve the estimates of trade in value-added measures
Clarifying the Role of Intermediaries
Adding more firm characteristics 17

18. Thank you very much for your attention!