Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

Unit in "Business Demography and entrepreneurship".
Statistical production Department (DIPS)
Central Directorate of Business Statistics  (DCSE)

ISTAT Via Tuscolana n°1871 00100 ROMA ITALY

Quarterly Business Demography (QBD) REGISTRATION

The observation unit is legal unit, in particular all tax numbers that are registred on Italian Provincial Chamber Registers. The number of quarterly registrations is the count of administrative entries in Chamber Register, that is the number of registration operations in the observed period. At present the enterprises in our BR aren't traced with the help of its identity number on a quarterly basis.

Quarterly Business Demography (QBD) BANKRUPTCY

The observation unit is the legal unit: all tax numbers that open a bankrumptcy procedures in Chamber Registers relating on its legal head office. In particular the bankruptcies are the number of the enterprise having a bankruptcy proceeding and  have not been rescinded it, or having in place any of the following:

- failure

- compulsory administrative liquidation

- arrangement

- bankruptcy agreement.

NACE REV.2

Number of registrations  - total number of registrations at any time during a given quarter q, which leads to the entry of a legal unit in the registration authority register. The data are not based on the enterprise demography characteristics 'date of commencement of activities' but on the characteristic 'date of registration in the Chamber Register' that not necessarily is egual to 'date of commencement of activities'.

Numbers of bankruptcies - total number of legal units that have started the procedure of being declared bankrupt, by issuing a legal declaration of a court, at any time during a given quarter q (which is often provisional and does not always mean the cessation of an activity). The data are based on the enterprise administrative transcript 'date of registration of bankruptcy proceedings', but not on 'date of cessations of enterprises', neither on 'cessations caused by a bankruptcy '.

Legal Unit

All active legal units

As for other STS ESMS metadata under the EBS Regulation, the variables refer to units that are registered on the territory of the Republic of Italy

The length of the available time series for registration is from Q1-2010 onwards, while for  bankruptcy is from Q1-2011 onwards

At the moment, as data are reported to Eurostat in absolute values, this Concept is not applicable.

The unit of measure is "pure number" of registrations and declarations of bankruptcies

Registrations and declarations of bankruptcies refer to one quarter

EBS Regulation N° 2019/2152, Table 1 of the Commission implementing regulation N° 2020/1197. 

Data (pure numbers) are sent to Eurostat

Confidentiality should not be an issue for quarterly registrations and declarations of bankruptcies

No data treatment

Italy release calendars are quarterly releases

No Access to the release calendar information.

The users are informed that the data are being released by Istat press release

Q for national releases and Q for transmissions to Eurostat

No press releases

No publications for year 2024

No online database

No microdata access

No other dissemination format. QBD data (absolute values) are transmitted to Eurostat within 40 days after the reference period. The transmission is done by eDAMIS using the SDMX format.

For the moment we do not have a methodology to present. We will insert it as soon as possible

No documentation on procedures applied for quality management and quality assessment are available.

As for other STS ESMS metadata under the EBS Regulation

As for other STS ESMS metadata under the EBS Regulation

As for other STS ESMS metadata under the EBS Regulation.

As for other STS ESMS metadata under the EBS Regulation.

not applicable

not applicable

As quarterly business demography indicators are "event based" statistics based on complete enumeration, sampling error is not applicable

The registration delays might be a source of errors, in particular for declarations of bankruptcies. At the moment to avoid bias, no revision in the next quarter or modelling error are applied.

Q+40 days

Q+40 days

The registrations and declarations of bankruptcies by sole proprietors are included in the Italy data.

No changed in the definitions of registrations or declarations of bankruptcies

The quarterly business demography is different from annual statistics on births and deaths of enterprises. They are not comparable because the first are administrative data while the last are statistical data. Moreover for the births and deaths we applied a procedure to select the real births and deaths.

For quarterly business demography variables, the aggregate is coherent with the lower level NACE activities.

As the quarterly business demography statistics are based on existing administrative sources, there is  no extra burden to businesses.

not applicable

not applicable

Administrative data of Chambers of Commerce

Quarterly

For Registrations  the method to access is direct access to a Chambers of Commerce data base, while for the bankruptcies the method is an extraction from a Chambers of Commerce data base

At the moment no process of monitoring the results are compiled

The processing of absolute numbers from a Chambers of Commerce source is relatively simple, so no grossing up; no index calculationare applied for quarterly business demography.

Seasonal adjustment is not required for registrations and bankruptcy declarations. From 2021 adjusted data is compiled nationally, using TRAMO-SEATS procedure.

We will try to transmit the adjusted data also the Eurostat to avoid discrepancies in published data.

Some questions may be subject to change in the future