1. A Data Structure Definition for Eurostat's short-term business statistics Jan Planovsky, Eurostat SDMX Global Conference Bangkok, 28-30 September 2015

2. Contents What is Eurostat's STS? Current data transmissions Preliminary consultations Draft STS DSD Conclusions 2

3. Who are we? 3

4. What is Short-term business statistics doing? Four monthly news releases  Industrial producer prices  Volume of retail trade  Industrial production  Index of production in construction Eight "Principal European Economic Indicators" (PEEIs) In addition to the above four:  Industry - Import prices  Construction – Building permits  Services – Turnover  Services – Producer prices (SPPI) Other short-term indicators (trade turnover, labour costs, …) 4

5. Current STS data transmissions ~5000 data files - in 40 data flows - per year from EU and EFTA Member States and from the accession countries All files in structured GESMES/TS (SDMX- EDI) All files follow the same structure: 13 fields (dimensions, attributes and observations) A tool in MS to create valid files (Genedi) 5

6. Why SDMX-ML? Objective: a single data transmission format in ESS Machine-to-machine readability Facilitates data sharing and exchange with ECB and international organisations Modern tools: XML instead of EDIFACT based Support available from Eurostat's IT data and metadata management units 6

7. Preliminary consultations With International Organisations (OECD, IMF, ILO): to learn from them  Several web meetings 2015 Q1-Q2 With EU and EFTA Members States and the candidate countries: to learn from them and to improve acceptability  A web meeting to present the draft DSD May-2015  An online survey to collect the MS' comments 2015 Q3-Q4 Formal approval by Nov-2015 Technical work carried out by Eurostat's data and metadata management unit between the consultations 7

8. Message from International Organisations Code lists: build on the the existing ones  https://registry.sdmx.org/content.html https://registry.sdmx.org/content.html Need to be created:  INDICATOR: specific for STS (PROD, TOVT, EMPL,…)  ACTIVITY: NACE rev. 2.0 + special aggregates (e.g. F_CC112,…)  BASE_YEAR: 2000,…,2020,…,? 8

9. STS Data Structure Definition One DSD for all STS files' 40 flows Validations: constraints to be applied at the level of flows  [ADJUSTMENT="Y"] not allowed for prices etc. SDMX v. 2.1, p.34-43: http://sdmx.org/wp- content/uploads/2013/07/SDMX_2_1_SECTION_6_TechnicalNotes- march-2013.doc http://sdmx.org/wp- content/uploads/2013/07/SDMX_2_1_SECTION_6_TechnicalNotes- march-2013.doc 9

10. FREQ REF_AREA ADJUSTMENT STS_INDICATOR STS_ACTIVITY STS_INSTITUTION BASE_YEAR TIME_PERIOD TIME_FORMAT OBS_VALUE OBS_STATUS OBS_CONF OBS_PRE_BREAK 15 UNIT 14 UNIT_MULT 11 COMMENT_OBS 12 EMBARGO_TIME 17 TRANSFORMATION 13 COMMENT_DSET STS - from GESMES/TS to SDMX-ML 01 FREQ 02 REF_AREA 03 ADJUSTMENT 04 INDICATOR 05 ACTIVITY STS_INSTITUTION 06 BASE_YEAR 07 TIME_PERIOD 18 TIME_FORMAT 08 OBS_VALUE 09 OBS_STATUS 10 CONF_STATUS OBS_PRE_BREAK 19 COMMENT_TS 16 DECIMALS For dissemination Not needed for indices Not needed Never used

11. Conclusion Target: One DSD for all STS data transmissions with reporting countries and data users, available in Global Registry Based on the existing STS Key Family (GESMES/TS) A draft STS DSD is under validation Learning from experience (Eurostat's horizontal unit, ESS MS and International Organisations) 11

12. Questions? Thank you for your attention. 12