Demography Of Small and Medium Enterprises

5th Working Group Meeting

Agenda

Monday 17 April 2000: 0930 to 1700

Introduction

Document 55: List of participants for 5th meeting

Document 56: Agenda for 5th meeting

Approval of the agenda

Information on related work (TES course on statistical units, Eurostat web site, Latvia seminar on business statistics, Eurostat work on demography, business registers questionnaire for member states, report on April meeting in Luxembourg on statistical units in member states, planned June meeting on business registers in Luxembourg).

2. Progress on B4

Document 57: Infostat report on B4

Summary counts, processing issues and communication by Infostat

B4 reports by CECs

This session will have brief written reports from all CECs covering issues relating to the data quality of the survey, highlighting outliers, and proving a commentary on the economic context of the survey. They will be annexed to the report of the meeting.

Document 62: Quality of B1 to B3 survey reults

Infostat has prepared a summary of the first three B surveys that can be extended to B4. This can also be discussed at item 7.

Publications

Document 58: Draft B4 tables

The session will consider the tables produced prior to the meeting by Paul Smith and agree a draft text for the publication.

Document 59: Polish publication

This paper will be the basis of the draft publication from research by Poland exploiting the survey database.

Tuesday 18 April 2000, 0900 to 1700

Making population estimates

Document 53: Longitudinal estimation – final report

This document will comprise two parts: methodology and summary of results and conclusions; and detailed country results (Hans Velt and Poland). A revised document 47 (presented initially in Vilnius) will be available, together with the report from the December Warsaw meeting involving Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Document 54: Longitudinal estimation - manual

Document 61: Longitudinal database issues (Infostat)

DOSME Project 2

Document 60: DOSME part 2 plans including questionnaire and sample design issues

This paper is a progress report on planning for the DOSME part 2 survey that is now due to start in 2001.CECs are requested to make a copy of the business register as at April 2000 and subsequently in April 2001 in preparation for the fieldwork. Participants should not that the project covers only ten of the CECs: Albania and FYROM are not included at this stage but are invited to be present for this discussion.

Wednesday 27 October 1999: 0900 to 1200

DOSME part 2 (continued)

DOSME part 1 review

This session requires oral contributions from CECs on: the seminar, use of Salomon, system changes implemented as a result of DOSME, imputation, quality improvements to registers and future training requirements.

Provisional planning for the 1^st working session of the new DOSME project

Offers are required from participants (one has been received from Bulgaria). Please note that this is now to be in April 2001.

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

Document 43: List of participants for 4th meeting

Document 44: Agenda for 4th meeting

Document 45: Infostat report on B4

Document 46: Feedback on Quality of coding of industrial classification

Document 47: Longitudinal estimates – draft final results

Document 48: Planning for the DOSME 2 survey

Document 49: Release of survey data

Document 50: Non-ignorable non-response modelling

Document 51: Plans for B4 publication