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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 | 29/04/2021 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 29/04/2021 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 29/04/2021 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Index of number of persons employed. |
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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 divisions 45 and 46 and 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 STS-R. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Generally the definitions correspond to those provided for in the "Methodology of Short Term Business Statistics" produced by Eurostat. The number of employees is derived from administrative sources (Main Association of Austrian Social Security) and is added to the numbers of self-employed persons from the Business Register (BR) of Statistics Austria. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Enterprise (=legal unit in BR) is reporting unit and observation unit. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
The target population are all active enterprises in BR in NACE Rev. 2 divisions 45 and 46 and 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. 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 200.000 enterprises. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
The geographical area covered is Austria as a whole. The indices only consists of data regarding Austria. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Time series available for all aggregates of NACE Rev. 2 required by STS-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 number of persons employed. No absolute figures are published. |
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Persons employed at the end of the calendar month. Quarterly indices are calculated as an average of monthly data. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
The European legal base is the 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 | |||
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 data for NACE Rev. 2. divisions 45 and 46 are transmitted monthly to Eurostat and disseminated monthly to national users, 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 news release is published featuring the key figures. News releases are issued at 9 a.m. CET online on the website of Statistics Austria. |
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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://www.statistik.at/web_en/statistics/trade_services/short_term_statistics/index.html#reiter_dblinks) |
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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. |
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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 | |||
Use of administrative data - response rate is 99,2% (nearly 100%) at the time of release of final results. In the case of missing links employees are distributed by 2-digits of NACE Rev. 2. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Complete datasets are transmitted to Eurostat 60 days after the end of the reference period. This transmission is in line with the delivery of the turnover indices for Annex C after 60 days. |
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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 | |||
Divisions 45 and 46: |
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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, total and sub-aggregates are consistent. |
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The enterprises have no burden, only administrative data is used. Data concerning costs are available in the Cost & Burden Questionaire for 2012. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Generally no routine revisions; basic data for calculation of final results are available in time. There is no revision calendar. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Schedule is based on Eurostat's release calendar. Data are stable. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Data is based on a census from administrative data. Data source for number of employees is the Main Association of Austrian Social Security and BR for self-employed persons. Approximately 200,000 enterprises are covered. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Data are collected monthly. The reference for the number of employees is the last working day of the calendar month. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Monthly data sets are transmitted from the Main Association of Austrian Social Security electronically and linked with the enterprises of the BR. Self employed persons are taken from the BR directly. For purposes of short term statistics the employment data can be calculated for 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 especially. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Monthly data is transmitted from the social security authorities and linked to enterprises of the BR; self employed persons are taken from the BR. So gross data can be calculated for each category of NACE. Employees which cannot be linked to enterprises of the BR are allocated according to their distribution by 2-digits of NACE. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
There are no adjustments made for the indices of number of persons employed. |
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