State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia

 Structural Business Statistics and Business Demography department.

str. Dame Gruev  4 - 1000 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia

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 non-financial business economy with the exception of agricultural activities and personal services. Limited information is available on banking, insurance and pension funds.

 Main characteristics (variables) of the SBS data category:

• Business demographic variables (e.g. Number of enterprises)
• "Output related" variables (e.g. Turnover, Value added)
• "Input related" variables: labour input (e.g. Employment, Hours worked); goods and services input (e.g. Total of purchases); capital input (e.g. Material investments)

Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE): NACE Rev.1 was used until 2001, NACE Rev. 1.1 since 2002, and NACE Rev 2 is used from 2008 onwards. Key data were double reported in NACE Rev.1.1 and NACE Rev.2 for 2008. From 2009 onwards, only NACE Rev.2 data are available.

The regional breakdown of the EU Member States is based on the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS). Detailed information about the consecutive NUTS Regulations can be found at Eurostat's website

The product breakdown is based on the Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) as stated in the Regulation establishing CPA 2008 and its amending  Commission Regulation (EU) No 1209/2014  (from reference year 2015 onwards)

The SBS coverage was limited to Sections C to K of NACE Rev.1.1 until 2007. Starting from the reference year 2008 data is available for Sections B to N and Division S95 of NACE Rev.2. With 2013 as the first reference year information is published on NACE codes K6411, K6419 and K65 and its breakdown.

The statistical characteristics are defined in Annex I of Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2009

National data and data broken down by size class of number of persons employed both refer to enterprises  = legal unit .

SBS population cover all active-non finacial  enterprises (small, medium and large) as well as entrepreneurships registered  by NACE Rev.2 Sections B to N ( except sector K)  and Group S95

2008 is the first reference year for SBS compilation based on NACE REV 1.1clasification.

2009 was double reporting acording to NACE Rev 1.1 and NACE Rev 2

The data set is more complete and comparable starting from reference year 2009 onwards.

Not applicable.

• 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.

SBS data refer to the calendar year that corresponds to the fiscal year.

The Council Regulation No 58/97 has been amended three times: by Council Regulation No 410/98, Commission Regulation No 1614/2002 and European Parliament and Council Regulation No 2056/2002. As a new amendment of the basic Regulation it was decided to recast the Regulation No 58/97 in order to obtain a new "clean" legal text. The European Parliament and Council Regulation No 295/2008 was adopted on 14/02/2008 and the provisions of this Regulation are applicable from the reference year 2008. Regulation No 295/2008 has been amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 446/2014.Year 1995 was the first year for the implementation of the Council Regulation No 58/97 (SBS Regulation).

Not applicable.

Individual data are protected by the Law on State Statistics. Data collected with statistical surveys from the reporting units or indirectly from administrative or other sources are confidential data and are used only for statistical purposes. Results from the statistical processing may also generate information considered as confidential, for example: anonymized individual data, tables with low level of aggregation, as well as unreleased data. The Policy on Statistical Confidentiality contains the basic principles used in the SSO.

Advance releasse calendar available on -line

Annual

Structural Busienss Statistics

Annualy : Statitical Yerabook

              Makstat selection

MakStat database available on the State Statistical Office website.

The data is sent to Eurostat or other international statistical organizations and published on the
website of those institutions.

Data is produced in accordance with the Regulation 295/2008 on Structural Business statistics.  Basic methodological explanations available on the veb site of the SSO.

http://www.stat.gov.mk/MetodoloskiObjasSoop_en.aspx?id=111&rbrObl=39

http://www.stat.gov.mk/Meta_godini_en_v2.aspx

Thanks to available administrative data and several stage validation system the overall quality can be assessed as satisfactory. Data is produced in time and all data request of the most important users are satisfied. 

The State Statistical Office every three years conducts the general User Satisfaction Survey , the last one in 2017.There is no user satisfaction survey dedicated to presented results of SBS.

The majority of required data categories are transmitted. Depending on the required data set data availability is between 90-100.

Data has not been provided for data set we are not obliged to transmit according to the eligibility to use % rule.

Annual regional statistics is not provided due to the required level of regional breakdown NUTS 0-2 which is national level. 

High level of accuracy is ensured with almost whole coverage of the business subjects by using administrative data source for data categories compilation.

Accuracy is also ensured by working with additional data comparisons and analysis before dissemination.

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The same statistical concepts applied in the entire national territory.Geographical comparability with other EU countries, it is also ensured because data are collected in line with EU regulations. However, certain comparison may be limited due to the differences in national accounting system as a base for data categories production.

Available two SBS data series are not comparable due to the different versions of national classification of activity.
In 2008-2009 data is aggregated by NKD Rev.1. activity sector.
From 2009 comparability is ensured without any break, by NKD Rev.2 which is harmonized with NACE Rev2.

There is no direct  burden to the respondent since the administartive data source mainained by the Central Registar, agency authorized to collect annual finacial reports of the enterprises  is used.

SBS data is released as a previous and final (revised) data.

Preliminary data are revised as a final due to the additional data set provided  by the administartive data source.

Structural Busienss Statistics data categories are compiled from data obtained from the administartive data source. The main data source is the Trade Register within the  Central Register institution which is  authorized for collection of the business subjects annual financial reports.  Additional data sources are: the Public Revenue Office and the Pension and Insurance Fund. For data coherency, data from other statistical surveys carried out by the State Statistical Office are used.

Annual data collection

SBS data is compiled from administartive data source that cover all business subjects. Accounting data from the financial annual reports are translated into items for data categories compilation. For data  not available in the ballance sheets, additional statistical form is prepaired. Since those documents are obligatory for all business subjects there is no data  estimation or imputation.

not aplicable

Activities are planned for provision of missing data categories as well as for improvement of those already available but not transimttted due to their quality.