Regional Course on Statistical Business Registers:
Data sources, maintenance and quality assurance
21 – 25 May 2018, Perak, Malaysia
Objectives
The course aims to help countries in the early stages of establishing statistical business registers and provide a platform for demonstrating good practices and exchanging experiences in the improvement, maintenance and use of statistical business registers.
| Concept Note | |
| Provisional Programme |
| Course Materials | |
|---|---|
Session 1: SBR fundamentals | |
| Exercise 1.1: SBR fundamentals | doc |
| Overview of the Malaysian SBR | |
| Role and purpose of the Australian SBR | |
| Case study from the Indonesia | |
| Exercise 1.2: SBR fundamentals | doc |
Session 2: Use of administrative data | |
| Use of administrative data in the Malaysian SBR | |
| Administrative data in SBRs | |
| Case study from the Thailand | |
| Issues in administrative data | |
| Case study from the Philippines | |
Session 3: Issues in maintaining SBRs | |
| Maintenance procedures | |
| SBR maintenance in Malaysia | |
| Profiling | |
| Exercise 3.1: Issues in maintaining SBRs | doc |
| Activity classification and value added calculation | |
| Case study from Viet Nam | |
| Exercise 3.2: Issues in maintaining SBRs | doc |
Session 4: Use of SBRs for economic surveys | |
| Survey frame methodology | |
| Case study from Myanmar | |
| SBRs and economic surveys | |
| Exercise 4.2: Use of SBRs for economic surveys | doc |
Session 5: Issues in assuring quality of SBRs | |
| Quality improvement | |
| Exercise 5.1 (in groups): Issues in assuring quality of SBRs | doc |
| Quality assurance of the SBR in Malaysia | |
| Business demography and entrepreneurship statistics | |
| Case study from Sri Lanka | |