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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 | 07/06/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 07/06/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 07/06/2023 |
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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 sections H, I, J, M (without 70.1, 72 and 75) and N (without 77, 81.1 and 81.3) 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 | |||
Enterprise (= legal unit in the Business Register (BR)) 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 sections H, I, J, M (without 70.1, 72 and 75) and N (without 77, 81.1 and 81.3) 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 is about 145,000 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 | |||
The base year for indices is 2015 since the first reference period 2018. |
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Indices of turnover. No absolute figures are published. |
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Quarterly indices are calculated as an average of monthly turnover data. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
The European legal base is the Council Regulation (EU) 2019/2152, partly (because of derogations) the former Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics in the current version, the national legal base in Austria is the National Regulation concerning short term statistics in trade and services (BGBl. II Nr. 233/2003 in the current version). |
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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 | |||
https://www.statistik.at/en/medien/release-calendar |
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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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The NACE Rev. 2. Sections H, I, J, M (without 70.1, 72 and 75) and N (without 77, 81.1 and 81.3) are transmitted quarterly to Eurostat and disseminated quarterly to national users. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
In general, for the publication of quarterly indices, 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 paper and electronic publications are: |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
The Database STATcube can be found on the Website of Statistics Austria: STATISTIK AUSTRIA - Trade, Services - Short Term Statistics - Stat. Databases (http://statcube.at/statcube/opendatabase?id=dekonjidxdl15) |
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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. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Indices are based on reliable data, regular meetings with decision making bodies and users take place. Publication of results is almost punctual. Main quality problems consists of unit-non-response (due to the use of administrative data), NACE-classification in the BR and different definitions for VAT and turnover. |
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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 | |||
Concept of a census, therefore no sampling errors. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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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. After t+60 days approx. 88% of total turnover data is available for enterprises in the coverage of STS. The response rate of the sampled enterprises in VAT advance return is about 85%. (mainly small enterprises are missing) |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Sections H, I, J, M (without 70.1, 72 and 75) and N (without 77, 81.1 and 81.3) 60 days after the end of the reference quarter for all levels of detail according to EBS-R. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
All deadlines have been respected. |
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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 | |||
Sections H, I, J, M (without 70.1, 72 and 75) and N (without 77, 81.1 and 81.3) according to STS-R: |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Coherence has to be 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 withdrawn from administrative sources and the BR. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Generally, no routine revisions are done, since basic data for calculation of final results are available in time. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Schedule is based on Eurostat's release calendar. Since there are no regular revisions, a calculation of MR or MAR is not possible, furthermore, no information on the size of typical revisions is possible. In Austria, we calculate the STS SERV indices after 2 months, a revision would only take place if there is an error or a correction in the base year. Therefore, no information about regular revisions is available, because there are no regular revisions. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Administrative sources (monthly and quarterly VAT advance return from tax authorities) are used for the enterprises in the cut-off census. |
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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. So gross data can be calculated for each category of NACE. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
For seasonal and working day adjustment X13-ARIMA Version 1.0 is used. NACE aggregates are calculated by using the indirect method. The model and regressors are fixed in the program once a year, coefficients are estimated whenever new data becomes available. |
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