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1.1. Contact organisation | STATISTICS AUSTRIA |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Directorate “Business Statistics” Trade and Services |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Guglgasse 13 |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 15/06/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 15/06/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 15/06/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Index of turnover. |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
NACE Rev. 2. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
The indicators cover economic activities of NACE Rev. 2 Section G in the breakdown required by EBS-R. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Generally, the definitions of turnover correspond to those provided for in the "Methodology of Short Term Business Statistics" produced by Eurostat. Turnover excludes VAT and is derived from monthly or quarterly VAT advance return for most of the enterprises; survey data is available for a subsample of enterprises. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Either the enterprise (= legal unit in the Business Register (BR)) or the KAU is reporting unit and observation unit. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
The target population are all active enterprises in the BR in NACE Rev. 2 Section G at the end of the relevant reference months. The BR covers enterprises with at least one employee or 10,000 Euro yearly turnover. The frame is a file extracted from the BR with every base year change - the frame is updated with births and deaths of enterprises every month. Total population for Section G is about 73,000 enterprises. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
The geographical area covered is Austria as a whole. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Time series available for all aggregates of NACE Rev. 2 required by EBS-R:
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3.9. Base period | |||
Base year: 2021. |
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Index of turnover. No absolute figures are published. |
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Monthly turnover. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
No data are transmitted to other international organisations (except Eurostat). |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
The legal base for statistical confidentiality is:
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Aggregated figures consisting of data of less than 4 enterprises are regarded confidential and therefore not published. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
A release calendar covering release dates of the first/second half of the year is published on the website of Statistics Austria. News releases are announced in the release calendar as well. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Release is simultaneous. Along with the national release on the website of Statistics Austria and the data transmission to Eurostat the most important national users (Austrian Central Bank, Austrian Institute of Economic Research etc.) are informed separately. |
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Data for divisions G45, G46 and G47 is transmitted monthly to Eurostat and disseminated monthly to national users. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
In general, a press release is published, featuring the key figures. Press releases are issued online on the website of Statistics Austria at 9 a.m. Austrian local time. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
National publications are:
Variables and breakdown of results as required by EBS-R. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
The STATcube database can be found on the website of Statistics Austria: STATISTIK AUSTRIA – Databases / STATcube - statistical database (http://statcube.at/statcube/opendatabase?id=dekonjidxhan21) |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
No microdata are available. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Data are sent to Eurostat. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Metadata and quality reports:
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Metadata and quality reports:
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Quality checks and validation of data are done throughout the whole compilation process. This is described in the standardised metadata and quality report for Short Term Statistics in Trade and Services on the website of Statistics Austria.
Following relevant changes discussions with national experts and the Quality Committee of the Statistical Council of Statistics Austria are held for feedback and modification suggestions. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Index is based on suitable data, regular meetings with decision making bodies and users take place. Publication of results according to the release calendar. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Short Term Statistics are used by different national and international institutions and non-institutional users like media, enterprises, educational and research institutions and the public. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
No index for user satisfaction is available, but there are regular meetings with national experts and essential users to react to new requirements, if these are not in contrast with legal necessities or constraints. In addition a user’s satisfaction survey takes place in periodic intervals. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
This index is complete, there are no gaps or missing data parts. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
NACE Section G47: |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
NACE Section G47: |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Coverage errors: Approximately 90% of the active enterprises in the whole BR can be linked to VAT data. The missing 10% represent only about 2% of total turnover. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
In general, prelmimnary results are published about 30 days after the end of the reference month for the aggregates G47, G47 (without G473), G473, G4711+G472 and G4719+G474+G475+G476+G477+G478+G479. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
NACE Section G47: In general, Statistics Austria provides t+30 results three days before EUROSTATs publication date. An earlier transmission is not possible for every month. This is based on the fact that sufficient administrative data is not available at this point in time, so a survey among 1,200 enterprises (response rate about 50%) is done to provide the data required for index calculation. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
For the whole Austrian territory the same statistical concepts are applied. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Monthly time series available for all aggregates of NACE Rev. 2 required by EBS-R:
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Coherence is described in the standardised meta information and quality reports for each statistical product of Statistics Austria. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Internal coherence is assured. |
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Burden on enterprises is zero because the data is mainly gathered from administrative sources and the statistical survey for large enterprises is on a voluntary basis, which is excluded from the response burden barometer in Austria. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
In the course of routine revisions, preliminary results (t+30) for NACE Section G47 are revised with final results at t+60. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Schedule is based on Eurostat's release calendar. NACE Sections G45 and G46: |
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18.1. Source data | |||
NACE Section G47:
NACE Section G45 and G46:
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Data are collected monthly. The reference period for the turnover is the whole month. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Data sets with monthly or quarterly VAT advance returns are transmitted from the Tax Authority electronically and linked with the enterprises of the BR. Large enterprises report their monthly turnover using a Web form for data transmission. For purposes of short term statistics these two data sets are combined for further calculation of turnover indices in the relevant categories of NACE. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Validation level 0: Mainly administrative data sources are used so structure of files and format of data are not checked explicitly. In the web data the dimension is checked. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Data transmitted from the tax authorities are linked to enterprises of the BR and extracted for purposes of STS; non-responses are estimated in the following way: missing data for the month t are estimated by multiplying the data of the previous year in the same month (t-12) by a stratum-specific factor. If a value for the same month of the previous year is not available, the value of the previous month (t-1) is taken into account. This way, gross data can be calculated for each category of NACE. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
The turnover index is deflated using an appropriate price index from the wholesale price index or the consumer price index. |
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No comment. |
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Seasonal adjustment - metadata trade |