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Annex II - PERIODICITY, REFERENCE PERIOD AND STATISTICAL UNIT OF TOPICS

Annex II
PERIODICITY, REFERENCE PERIOD AND STATISTICAL UNIT OF TOPICS

Domain 1. Short-term business statistics

Topics

Periodicity

Reference period

Statistical unit

Business population

quarterly

quarter

legal unit

Labour inputs

quarterly (monthly optional)

quarter (month optional)

KAU

Prices

monthly with the following exceptions – services producer prices and producer prices for new residential buildings: quarterly

month with the following exceptions – services producer prices and producer prices for new residential buildings: quarter (month optional)

KAU with the following exception – import prices: not applicable

Outputs and performance

monthly with the following exception – small countries for NACE Section F: quarterly (monthly optional)

month with the following exception – small countries for NACE Section F: quarter (month optional)

KAU

monthly; quarterly for small* countries for NACE Section F * As specified in implementing acts referred to in Article 7(1).

Real estate

quarterly (monthly optional)

quarter (monthly optional)

not applicable

Domain 2. Country-level business statistics

Topics

Periodicity

Reference period

Statistical unit

Business population

annually

calendar year

enterprise

Labour inputs

annually

calendar year

enterprise

R&D inputs

biennially with the following exceptions – sector of performance breakdown of intramural R&D expenditure, R&D personnel and number of researchers as well as for Government Budget Allocations for R&D (GBARD) and national public funding to transnationally coordinated R&D: annually

calendar year

enterprise for the business enterprise sector institutional unit for the other sectors

Purchases

annually with the following exception – payments to subcontractors: every three years

calendar year

enterprise

Outputs and performance

annually with the following exceptions – product and residence of client breakdown of net turnover for NACE 69.1, 69.2, 70.2, 71.1, 71.2 and 73.2: biennially – Net turnover from agriculture, forestry, fishing and industrial activities, Net turnover from industrial activities, Net turnover from industrial activities excluding construction, Net turnover from construction, Net turnover from service activities, Net turnover from trading activities of purchase and resale and from intermediary activities, Net turnover from building and Net turnover from civil engineering: every five years – income from subcontracting: every three years

calendar year

enterprise with the following exceptions – sold production, production under sub-contracted operations and actual production: KAU

Investments

annually with the following exception – investment in intangible assets: every three years

calendar year

enterprise

Innovation

biennially

reference period is three-year period before the end of every even calendar year

enterprise

ICT usage and e- commerce

annually

calendar year of the adoption of the implementing act laying down the variables; calendar year following the year of adoption of the implementing act laying down the variables for the other variables

enterprise

Domain 3. Regional business statistics

Topics

Periodicity

Reference period

Statistical unit

Business population

annually

calendar year

enterprise with the following exception – number of local units (optional for NACE Section K): local unit

Labour inputs

annually

calendar year

enterprise with the following exceptions – number of employees and self‐employed persons in local units, wages and salaries in local units: local unit

R&D inputs

biennially

calendar year

enterprise for business enterprise sector; institutional unit for the other sectors

Domain 4. Statistics on international activities

Topics

Periodicity

Reference period

Statistical unit

Business population

annually

calendar year

enterprise

Labour inputs

annually

calendar year

enterprise

Investments

annually

calendar year

enterprise

Outputs and performance

annually

calendar year

enterprise

International trade in goods

monthly with the following exception – biennially for combined product and invoicing currency breakdown for extra-Union imports and exports of goods

to be specified in implementing acts pursuant to point (j) of Article 7(1)

not applicable

International trade in services

annually with the following exception – first level service breakdowns: quarterly

calendar year with the following exception – first level service breakdowns: quarter

not applicable

Global value chains

every three years

three calendar years; reference year t and the reference period t‐2 to t

enterprise

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