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Structural business statistics (sbs)

National Reference Metadata in SBS Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure (ESMS) - from reference year 2021 onwards (ESSBS21)

Compiling agency: Statistics Poland 

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Structural business statistics (SBS) describes the structure, conduct and performance of economic activities, down to the most detailed activity level (several hundred economic sectors). SBS covers all activities of the business economy with the exception of agricultural activities, public administration and (largely) non-market services such as education and health. Main characteristics (variables) of the SBS data category:

• Business demographic variables (e.g. Number of active enterprises)

• "Output related" variables (e.g. Net turnover, Value added)

• "Input related" variables: labour input (e.g. Number of employees and self-employed persons, Hours worked by employees); goods and services input (e.g. Purchases of goods and services); capital input (e.g. Gross investments)

Business services statistics (BS) collection contains harmonised statistics on business services. From 2008 onwards BS become part of the regular mandatory annual data collection of SBS. The BS’s data requirement includes variable “Turnover” broken down by products and by type of residence of client.

The annual regional statistics collection includes three characteristics due by NUTS-2 country region and detailed on NACE Rev 2division level (2-digits).

29 August 2024

Since reference year 2018, statistical unit is an "enterprise" in line with definition provided by the Regulation (ECC) No 696/1993 and may consist one or more legal units.

Target population: in terms of NACE sections B to N, P to R as well as division S95 and S96, frame for identifying units for the population: statistical business register.

Poland.

2022 - the data refers to calendar year.

The period from the first release of the results to the final: 8 months.

• Number of enterprises and number of local units are expressed in units.

• Monetary data are expressed in millions of €.

• Employment variables are expressed in units.

• Per head values are expressed in thousands of € per head. 

Ratios are expressed in percentages.

Method of poststratification with turnover data, obtained from the surveys and administrative sources was used for micro units.

For other units the survey is exhaustive.

For dealing with item and unit with no-response, the information from short-term surveys and administrative data are used.

The hot deck imputation is also applied.

Table 23 of EBS Regulation: survey is mandatory for all legal units with 10 and more persons employed and which carry out activities included in Table 23 of EBS Regulation. In case of units non-response, data are imputed on VAT basis.

The main data sources are statistical surveys, but also administrative data are in use as an addition.

Selection schemes:
for variables Number of active enterprises, Number of employees and self-employed persons and Number of employees – census.

For other variables:
- 0-9 persons employed – sample ~5%, sample design- stratified, stratification criteria - activity, employment size class, region, legal form.
- 10+ persons employed– census.

Annual.

The time period that elapses between the end of the reference period, and the first release of the data: 10 months.

Table 23 of EBS Regulation: The process from data collection, imputation, compilation up to transmission to Eurostat lasted 13 months.

Comparability - geographical.

2002-2007 for NACE rev.1.1;

2008-2018 for NACE rev.2

2018-2022 for NACE rev.2 and statistical unit enterprise

Table 23 of EBS Regulation:

2002 - 2007 for NACE rev. 1.1

2008 - 2022 for NACE rev. 2;

2008 - 2015 for CPA 2008

2016 - 2022 for CPA Ver. 2.1