Advances in Business Statistics, Methods and Data Collection

9The Development and Maintenance of Statistical Business Registers as Statistical Infrastructure in Statistics Indonesia and the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Imam Machdi¹, Ratih Putri Pertiwi¹, Rr. Nefriana¹, and Willem Erasmus²

¹BPS – Statistics Indonesia, Deputy of Methodology and Statistical Information, Jakarta, Indonesia

²ABS – Australian Bureau of Statistics, Business Register Unit, Melbourne, Australia

9.1 Introduction

An inclusive and exhaustive Statistical Business Registers (SBRs) is the backbone for producing survey based economic statistics and an important element of a National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) statistical infrastructure. It provides the populations and characteristics of statistical units. It also serves as a central data source for querying legal units, enterprises, and enterprise groups.

Additionally, the SBR can provide links to administrative units and registers, as a central data source, enabling the use of administrative data for statistical purposes. It can provide unique identifiers enabling linkages at the microlevel across statistical domains as needed for producing national and international statistics.

This chapter provides an overview of SBRs in Statistics Indonesia and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). It starts by looking at the Indonesian and Australian context (Section 9.2) and then proceeds to definitions of a SBR (Section 9.3). Section 9.4 provides an overview of the evolution of the SBRs, moving onto looking at SBR ...