PRODUCTION OF EXPERIMENTAL STATISTICS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTERPRISES WITH INTERNET DATA
Kostadin Georgiev, Galya Stateva
Abstract: With each passing year, online business is becoming even more important to the economy, and with the global pandemic, COVID it is more important than ever. The Work Package C (WPC) for online based enterprise characteristics (OBEC) within the framework of the European project ESSnet on Big data II is related to the understanding of the online economic and business activity of enterprises from the point of view of national statistics.
A key result of the work is the improvement of the quality of the statistical business register in terms of characteristics for the online presence of nationally registered companies such as the availability of websites, e-commerce or social media accounts. Within the WPC, the methodology of the previous ESSnet on Big data I project was summarized and extended for use in each ESS country, taking into account the diversity needed to maintain different use-cases in statistical practice.
The National Statistical Institute had the honour and privilege to be a leading institution and an active partner in the implementation of activities under work package C.
This article aims to acquaint the reader with the results achieved on the opportunities and challenges for the production of experimental statistics from ‘big data’ sources on the online characteristics of enterprises at European and national level.
A key result of the work is the improvement of the quality of the statistical business register in terms of characteristics for the online presence of nationally registered companies such as the availability of websites, e-commerce or social media accounts. Within the WPC, the methodology of the previous ESSnet on Big data I project was summarized and extended for use in each ESS country, taking into account the diversity needed to maintain different use-cases in statistical practice.
The National Statistical Institute had the honour and privilege to be a leading institution and an active partner in the implementation of activities under work package C.
This article aims to acquaint the reader with the results achieved on the opportunities and challenges for the production of experimental statistics from ‘big data’ sources on the online characteristics of enterprises at European and national level.
Keywords: online based enterprise characteristics, experimental statistics, big data, statistical Business Register, National Statistical Institute
Date published: 2021-04-13
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