Demography Of Small and Medium Enterprises

4th Working Group Meeting

Agenda

Monday 25 October 1999: 0930 to 1700

1.Introduction

Document 43: List of participants for 4th meeting

Document 44: Agenda for 4th meeting

Approval of the agenda

Information on related work (TES course on statistical units, Warsaw seminar June 1999, Eurostat Business Registers Committee and UNECE meetings June 1999, Eurostat web site). Additional documents are included on these topics for information.

2. Progress on B4

Document 45: Infostat report on B4

Summary counts, processing issues and communication by Infostat

B4 reports by CECs

This session will be oral reports from all CECs covering issues relating to work done so far on the survey and will consider any issues relating to the timetable. Issues relating to the introduction of FYROM to the survey are included here.

Document 50: Non-ignorable non-response modelling

This is an important issue that was raised briefly at the 3^rd working group meeting. Paul Smith will introduce the discussion.

3.Publications

Situation report on B3 publication

Oral report by Eurostat and information from CECs on their publication plans. This session will also include discussion of quality issues.

Document 51: Plans for B4 publication

The proposal is to produce the B4 publication along the lines of B1, B2 and B3.However, we wish to consider ways to accelerate the timetable. We propose specifically to ask countries to check for outliers at the data take-on stage, for the set of tables to be ready for the next working group and for CECs to consider the commentary supporting the tables at that meeting.

Consideration of issues relating to FYROM needs to be covered.

Other publications and release of data

Offers or suggestions by CECs for additional publications (other than longitudinal studies) and discussion of the release of data for research purposes (document 49).

Tuesday 26 October 1999: 0900 to 1700

4. Classification

Document 46: Feedback on the quality of coding of industrial classification

Paper by John Perry summarising responses from CECs in relation to checking coding of questionnaires from the A and C surveys.

5. Making population estimates

Document 47: Longitudinal estimates – draft final results

Progress report on project on longitudinal estimates (Hans Velt and Poland)

6. Longitudinal database issues

Document 42: Year 2000 issues

We need to ensure that we have covered all angles of this issue both for the central database and local processing.

Other issues relating to longitudinal databases

Infostat will introduce the topic.

Wednesday 27 October 1999: 0900 to 1200

7. DOSME Project 2

Document 48: Planning for the DOSME 2 survey

These papers set out detailed plans for managing the final phase of the work. CECs should note that there are uncertainties regarding the timetable. This paper describes the situation in detail and will be an important discussion item

8. Next (5^th) meeting

Offers are required from participants. Please note that this is to be in mid-April 2000.

CEC pilot project on Demography of SMEs

Overview of Documents

Document 1 List of participants (1^st meeting)

Document 2 Agenda (1^st meeting)

Document 3 Project description (this is a copy of Document 78 of the previous CEC panel project)

Document 4 Contents and planning of the project

Document 5 Summary of computer systems in CECs

Document 6 Survey B3: sampling and questionnaire

Document 7 Draft contracts for the B3 survey

Document 8 The seminar on the use of business registers

Document 9 Report of 1^st meeting

Document 10 B3 questionnaire

Document 11 Progress report to 1 August 1998

Document 12 Summary of register situation in CECs

Document 13 Update on technological issues

Document 14 Recommendations for further analysis of the data collected in the C survey

Document 15 Characteristics, maintenance and uses of the business register

Document 16 B3 summary tables

Document 17 B4 survey sample and questionnaire

Document 18 Proposals for project 2

Document 19 Enterprises in the CECs: initial longitudinal analysis 1995-7 - draft results

Document 20 Items and questions on the review of the use of business registers in CECs

Document 21 Current longitudinal database and future outlook

Document 22 Place in the national statistical office of the pilot project

Document 23 Agenda for 2^nd meeting

Document 24 List of participants for 2^nd meeting

Document 25 Imputation examples

Document 26 Report of 2^nd meeting (Tallinn, Estonia)

Document 27 List of participants 3^rd meeting

Document 28 Agenda 3^rd meeting

Document 29: B3 report by CECs (Document to be produced following meeting)

Document 30: Infostat report on B3

Document 31: B3 publication

Document 32: C survey – exploitation of data

Document 33: Eurostat questionnaire summary

Document 34: Planning for B4 survey

Document 35: Longitudinal database logical design issues

Document 36: Longitudinal estimates

Document 37: Imputation issues – B3 and B4 surveys

Document 38: Updated proposals for the second DOSME project

Document 39: Quality of coding of industrial classification

Document 40: Report from the 3^rd working group meeting

Document 41: Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Representative Bodies

Document 42: Year 2000 Issues