Regional Course on Statistical Business Registers:
Making a Business Case for an Operational Statistical Business Register
26 – 30 January 2015, Perak, Malaysia
Objectives
The course aims to provide a platform for demonstrating good practices and exchanging experiences in dealing with challenges and issues in the development, maintenance and use of statistical business registers and for developing a business case for supporting an operational SBR suitable to national contexts.
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Concept Note | |
Provisional Programme (as of 27 January 2015) | |
| Course Materials [Materials will be posted on this page as they become available] | |
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Module 0 - What is a Statistical Business Register (SBR)? | |
| Demonstrations of SBRs : Malaysia | |
| Demonstrations of SBRs : Australia | |
Module 1: - Understanding the role of SBRs | |
| SBRs within the national statistical system | |
| Country presentation on organizational and operational issues : Malaysia | |
| Country presentation on organizational and operational issues : Indonesia | |
| Organizational and operational issues | |
| Building a Business Case for an SBR: A Framework for SBR Development | |
| A Template for Building a Business Case for an SBR and an Application: ABS Model | |
| Template for Business Case for an Operational Statistical Business Register | |
Module 2 – Key Design Considerations | |
| Conceptual Issues: Coverage and Units | |
| Conceptual issues: content/variables (Identification variables; Start and end dates; Economic variables; Stratification variables/ classification variables; Linkage to source registers and other registers) | |
| Issues in the selection of data sources | |
| Handling issues in the use of administrative registers (ABS) | |
| Country presentation on considerations in selecting data sources for SBRs - Indonesia | |
| Country presentation on considerations in selecting data sources for SBRs - Hong Kong | |
| Design Considerations in Practice: Putting it all together; The ABS SBR Model | |
Module 3 – Issues in Maintaining SBRs | |
| Overview of Issues in Maintaining SBRs and Considerations for a Maintenance Strategy | |
| Overview of Issues in Maintaining SBRs and Considerations for a Maintenance Strategy: Country practice -Fiji | |
| Handling changes in identification and descriptive characteristics | |
| Country practice in handling changes in variables : Philippines | |
| Handling changes in demographic and linkage characteristics | |
| Profiling | |
| Handling changes in continuity | |
| Country practice in Handling changes in continuity - Singapore | |
Module 4: Issues in assuring quality of SBRs | |
| Errors in SBRs | |
| Country practices in handling errors - Malaysia | |
| Country practices in handling errors - Viet Nam | |
| Quality in SBRs : Concepts in quality and quality assurance | |
| Quality in SBRs : Quality measures and Quality gates | |
Module 5. Issues in establishing an SBR | |
| Practices of the ABS Business Register on Confidentiality, Access and Dissemination | |
| SBR system and information technology requirements | |
Module 6. Developing a business case for SBRs | |
| Strategic planning for SBR development | |
| Reference materials | |
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| Guidelines for Building Statistical Business Registers in Africa | |
| Business Registers: Recommendations manual (Eurostat) | |
| International Guidelines on Statistical Business Registers | |
| Country papers | |
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| Cambodia | |
| China | |
| Fiji | |
| Hong Kong, China | |
| India | |
| Indonesia | |
| Lao's People Democratic Republic | |
| Malaysia | |
| Philippines | pdf |
| Singapore | |
| Viet Nam | |