Turnover in the Wholesale Trade

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Turnover in the Wholesale Trade

• Jonas Färnstrand
• Statistics Sweden
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• jonas.farnstrand_at_scb.se

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Background

• EU-regulated survey
• Demands for decreased response burden
• Turnover by product important to National
  Accounts
• Concentration on economic statistics
• Service sector in particular

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Background

• Prior to 1997
• No administrative data
• Sample of 15 000 enterprises (about 1 200 in the
  wholesale trade)
• Only total turnover (not by product)
• Complementary survey every fifth year (turnover
  by product)

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Background

• 1997-2002
• Adminstrative data available (National Tax Board)
• Total turnover, profit/loss, investments
  (derived), balance sheet etc
• Complementary survey for enterprises gt 50
  employees (about 5 000 of which 500 belongs to
  the wholesale trade)
• Turnover by product only for large enterprises,
  lack of information for activities with many
  small enterprises

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Background

• 2003-
• Administrative data available
• ?ps-sampling based on administrative data
• Sample of 15 000 enterprises (1 900 in the
  wholesale trade)
• No cut-off limits
• Pre-printed data (totals) to reduce the response
  burden
• Annual information on turnover by product for all
  activities

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Sample sizes
Number of enterprises, total Manufacturing 62
000 Service sector 532 000 - wholesale trade 44
000
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Stratification

• The goal is to cover as much turnover and as many
  product as possible
• 4-digit NACE in general
• Some 5-digit national level strata
• About 50 strata in total

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Largest activities (divisions)
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Wholesale trade data
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Time series, turnover
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Time table
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Questionnaires

• Electronic questionnaires to enterprises gt 10
  employees (password by mail)
• Paper questionnaires and password to the smaller
  enterprises
• Pre-printed administrative data (total turnover,
  total personnel costs etc)

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1. Pre-printed turnover
2. Turnover by product
2a. Main variables
2b. Other variables belonging to the activity
2c. Reported variables from last year
2d. Other products (drop down-list)
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Electronic pros and cons

• Some checks/editing can be done already at the
  enterprise
• Less expensive (at least for Statistics Sweden)
• Less registration
• XBRL in the future
• Drop down-lists
• - Problems to get to the questionnaire (macro
  settings in Excel, load times)

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Response rates
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Response rates
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Wholesale groups

• NACE (ISIC)
• 511 (461) Wholesale on a fee or a contract
  basis
• 512 (462) Wholesale of agricultural raw
  materials and live animals
• 513 (463) Wholesale of food, beverages and
  tobacco
• 514 (464) Wholesale of household goods
• 515 (466) Wholesale of non-agricultural
  intermediate products, waste
  and scrap
• 518 (465) Wholesale of machinery, equipment
  and supplies
• 519 (469) Other wholesale

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Turnover 2006
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Turnover 1997-2006
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Turnover by product
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Wholesale trade the future

• The new NACE classification (reference year 2008)

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• Thank you!
• Questions?