Business Longitudinal Database and Business

Transcript:Business Longitudinal Database and Business:
Business Longitudinal Database and Business Characteristics Statistics How we got here (History) Where we are at (Current) and Where to from here (Future) Over 10 years ago Business Longitudinal Survey had been conducted in the mid-1990’s but cancelled in 1999 Strong user demand for it to be reinstated Early planning for the Business Longitudinal Database initiated Why a BLD? Analysts and policy advisors are interested in understanding: The activities or factors that are relevant to business performance and productivity The business characteristics that are associated with these activities or factors Micro level (unit record) analysis over time is the best method of getting this understanding The BLD vision Small “dense” BLD ~2,000 SME-sized businesses in each panel/wave with a combination of directly collected and administrative data, i.e. complete data for all businesses in the panel with a new panel each year plus some flexibility in design Large “sparse” BLD To be created using the ABS unit record data stores for all directly collected (irrespective of which survey) and administrative data, i.e. ATO data for all businesses plus data from other ABS surveys in which a business may have been included The BLD is born New policy proposal successful in 2005 budget but………… First panel/wave initiated for 2004-05 financial year In the meantime… As part of developing the BLD, the ABS reviewed of all of its “characteristics” type collections ABS “characteristics” data collections Business Use of Information Technology – annual since early 1990’s Innovation – a couple of collections in the 1990’s and reinstated in 2002 Integrated Business Characteristics Strategy Bring together existing IT use and innovation collections with the new BLD direct collection component Get efficiencies from linked samples, common instruments and business processes Integrated data Reduction in provider load Business Characteristics Survey introduced Core characteristics content Core IT use and innovation content Alternating IT use and innovation detail Capacity for a user funded module First integrated survey conducted in 2005-06 Small “dense” BLD A new panel/wave each year Each panel/wave is in for five years Design is pretty simple: industry division by employment size (i.e.. The stratum) Aim to have 30 businesses still live in each stratum at the end of 5 years, overall ~ 2,000 businesses BLD design 4 employment size groups Non-employers* 0-4 employees 5-19 employees 20 -199 employees 14** Industry Divisions Dominated by businesses which operate in the market sector of the economy * Not for