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