National Institute of Statistics Romania

Structural Business Statistics Directorate

Romania, 050706, Bucharest, 16 Libertatii Avenue

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

Enterprise

All enterprises are included. The frame population is based on Statistical Business Register

The entire country, but activity abroad of the enteprises is excluded.

1997-2020

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.

2020 calendar year

Year 1995 was the first year for the implementation of the Council Regulation No 58/97 (SBS Regulation).

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.

Not applicable.

Confidentially is stated in the Statistical Law 226/2009

Data are marked as confidential when there are less than 4 enterprises or when turnover of one or two enterprises dominate (more than 80% of the total turnover) one aggregate.

The Press Release calendar

http://www.insse.ro/cms/ro/comunicate-de-presa-view

Additional data aggregates which are not published in the publication are provided by the dissemination department upon request.

Annual

Regular press release

Publication in Romanian available below:

Results and performances in trade and services enterprises

TEMPO online database - annual data

http://statistici.insse.ro:8077/tempo-online/#/pages/tables/insse-table

No micro-data dissemination

Statistical Yearbook

Structural Business Statistics Methodological Guide

Metadata data 

Internal Procedures

The framework for the quality is constituted of the following: procedures based on the GSBPM standard and the general quality management system based on EFQM. Additionaly the SBS follows national policy on quality.

The administrative sources of data are used in order to reduce the burden on respondents to check the coherence of the data.

The quality of the data is assesed based on quality indicators; coefficient of variation to measure the accuracy of the estimates. It is calculated as ratio of the standard deviation of the estimate to the value of that estimate. The coefficient of variation series were transmited to Eurostat.

The main internal user is National Accounts Department. External users are: ministries, academia and businesses.

User satistifaction survey was not carried out

The data for NACE classes which are not published is caused by confidentiality issues.

The main source of errors is the non-responses and incomplete data provided by the enterprises.

Time period from first release to final is 8 months according to the regulation requirements.

The enterprises with 20 and more employed persons are included exhaustively in the data collection. The enterprises below are selected using sampling method

Non-sampling error is very low and does not influence the overall results.

Provisional data are available T+10 months and final data are available T+18 months (as requested by SBS regulation).

There is no lag between actual delivery of the data and the target date

Statistics are comparable between geographical areas

Comparable data for 2008-2019, enterprise equal to legal unit. Data before 2008 are collected and compiled according to Nace Rev.1.1. Since 2018 data are computed at enterprise level, enterprise defined in accordance with Regulation 969/1993.

The coherence between variables number of persons emplyed, turnover is checked between SBS and STS.

The aggregates are always consistent with their main sub-aggregates 

Not available

The National Institute of Statistics Romania adopted revision policy which defines the standard rules and the principles for statistical data revision. This revision policy complies with: the European Statistics Code of Practice, adopted by the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) in 2011; the European Statistical System Guidelines on the revision policy of the Principal European Economic Indicators, as well as with its annexes which comprise the principles of a common policy on European statistics revision; and with the Quality Guidelines.

Data are revised in case errors are detected. The revision policy is applied.

Statistical survey combined with administrtive data (financial statments of the enteprises).

Sampling design:

 The sampling volume was determined by imposing that, at the total country level, the precision of the estimator for total turnover should be 0.03, at a confidence level of 95%, i.e.

where,

              - estimator of total turnover

              - total turnover.

The allocation of the selection volume in strata was done by the Neyman allocation method based on the standard deviation of the turnover variable values:

 where

 , volume in stratum h,

 n - total volume of sample

, weight of stratum h,

 standard deviation of the turnover in stratum h.

The minimum number units per strata was set up is 5 units. After drawing the sample, the coefficients of variation calculated for the number of employees and turnover indicators were analyzed, at NACE Rev.2 division level, size class and NACE code. The coefficients of variation resulted are below the allowed threshold of 30%.

Annual data collection

Paper and electronic (Excel) questionnaires

Validation rules applied before the data are transmitted to Eurostat: intra-dataset checks, inter-dataset checks, intra-source checks; consistency checks between statistical domains

Data for non-respondent units are imputed using adminstrative sources (financial statments of the enterprise) and grossing up weights taking into account the non-response rate.

No differences between reference year and calendar year

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