MODERNISATION OF BUSINESS STATISTICS: CHALLENGES AND OUTCOMES OF THE SLOVENIAN STATISTICAL OFFICE
MODERNISATION OF BUSINESS STATISTICS: CHALLENGES AND OUTCOMES OF THE SLOVENIAN STATISTICAL OFFICE

Summary/Abstract: Business statistics are facing major challenges: the world economy has become global, more integrated. Development and growing importance of the service sector in recent years have led to increasing demands and needs for a separate and broader monitoring of services. At the same time there is strong pressure to cut red tape and reduce the burden on enterprises. For business statistics to continue to be relevant to users, to also balance the needs for information between traditional statistical areas and the areas of emerging economic phenomena and at the same time reduce the burden on enterprises, it was necessary to begin to invest in an integrated approach and renovation. At the European level a special project was launched aimed to integrate the existing domain-specific regulations in business statistics by establishing a cross-cutting legal framework. At the national level these resulted in modification and modernisation of the current statistical methodology and processes as well as in the development of missing economic indicators in the field of business statistics. The Slovenian statistical office responded to the challenges in different ways by adequately reflecting these new phenomena and requirements. The article illustrates the challenges we have been facing on this path, some results and solutions, which are already available and have recently been implemented in practice. One of the main engagements done in recent years was to strengthen the role of the business register at the national level by setting up the new Statistical Business Register (SBR). Other important tasks were the development of new economic indicators, modernisation of data collection and the rationalisation of the statistical processes. In the context of monitoring the phenomenon of globalization, we started with the investigation of profiling. Also connected with profiling was another technical challenge, i.e. setting up a new enterprise group register and establishing connections and data exchange with the EuroGroup Register.

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