Central Business Register Inquiry 2013
Zimbabwe, 2013 - 2014
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency
Identification
idno
zwe-zimstat-cbr-2013-v1
Title
Central Business Register Inquiry 2013
Subtitle
First Round
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | zwe |
Abstract
Background
The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, ZIMSTAT, is in the process of updating a Central Business Register, CBR. A CBR is a database of enterprises/establishments operating in the economy covering all industries and geographical regions engaged in the production of goods and/or services. The CBR is an important statistical tool that besides providing a master frame for conducting the sample survey for collection of data also provides basic statistics such as employment by sex, turnover by industry, sector and region. A register of good quality will help to improve the efficiency of the National Statistical System, which in turn shall help to reduce response burden on the businesses.
The training course will be listening to lectures on how to fill in the questionnaires correctly. You will also be conducting practice interviews with other trainees and randomly selected establishments. You will be given periodic tests, and the questionnaires that you complete will be edited to check for completeness and accuracy.
Objectives of the CBR
The objectives of the survey would be:
· To create a comprehensive list of establishments and enterprises
· To establish a business directory based on the BR for public use
· To provide a master frame for the economic and social censuses and surveys:
o CIP (Manufacturing, Mining & Quarrying, Construction, Electricity and Water Supply and Distribution)
o Quarterly Employment Inquiry (QEI)
o Volume of Manufacturing Index (VMI)
o Business Tendency Survey (BTS)
o Census of Services (CoS)
o Census of Transport (CoT)
o Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
· To derive basic economic statistics such as number of employees, turnover, etc.
The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, ZIMSTAT, is in the process of updating a Central Business Register, CBR. A CBR is a database of enterprises/establishments operating in the economy covering all industries and geographical regions engaged in the production of goods and/or services. The CBR is an important statistical tool that besides providing a master frame for conducting the sample survey for collection of data also provides basic statistics such as employment by sex, turnover by industry, sector and region. A register of good quality will help to improve the efficiency of the National Statistical System, which in turn shall help to reduce response burden on the businesses.
The training course will be listening to lectures on how to fill in the questionnaires correctly. You will also be conducting practice interviews with other trainees and randomly selected establishments. You will be given periodic tests, and the questionnaires that you complete will be edited to check for completeness and accuracy.
Objectives of the CBR
The objectives of the survey would be:
· To create a comprehensive list of establishments and enterprises
· To establish a business directory based on the BR for public use
· To provide a master frame for the economic and social censuses and surveys:
o CIP (Manufacturing, Mining & Quarrying, Construction, Electricity and Water Supply and Distribution)
o Quarterly Employment Inquiry (QEI)
o Volume of Manufacturing Index (VMI)
o Business Tendency Survey (BTS)
o Census of Services (CoS)
o Census of Transport (CoT)
o Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
· To derive basic economic statistics such as number of employees, turnover, etc.
Kind of Data
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Unit of Analysis
The CBR is an economic survey and the unit of analysis is the establishment.
Version
Version number
v1: no data set to be uploaded.
Version Date
2014-11-30
Version Notes
The version is the first version
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
National coverage
Unit of Analysis
The CBR is an economic survey and the unit of analysis is the establishment.
Universe
All establishments operating in Zimbabwe.
Producers and sponsors
Authoring entity/Primary investigators
| Agency Name |
|---|
| Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency |
Funding Agency/Sponsor
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic Economic Research and Analysis - United States Agency for International Development | USAID-SERA | Financial Assistance |
Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| United Nations Development Programme | Financial Assistance |
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
| Start date | End date |
|---|---|
| 2013-08-01 | 2014-06-30 |
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Type of Research Instrument
In conducting the CBR inquiry, the bottom-up approach was used whereby field staff administered the CBR questionnaire to all establishments that were on the master list. The master list was an amalgamation of registers from ZIMSTAT, local authorities NSSA and business associations. In addition, establishments that were not on the master list but found on the ground were also covered. The alternative could have been to use the less expensive top-down approach based on ZIMRA tax records. However, the top-down approach could not be used owing to the confidentiality clause in the ZIMRA Act that restricts the Revenue Authority from disclosing individual company tax records.
In the bottom-up approach, all local authorities were requested to provide information on establishments operating under their jurisdictions. ZIMSTAT provided the local authorities with a template showing how the information was to be provided. The template contained variables such as legal and trading names, physical addresses and economic activity among others.
In the bottom-up approach, all local authorities were requested to provide information on establishments operating under their jurisdictions. ZIMSTAT provided the local authorities with a template showing how the information was to be provided. The template contained variables such as legal and trading names, physical addresses and economic activity among others.
Data Collectors
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency | ZIMSTAT |
Data Processing
Cleaning Operations
The Project Team as secondary editors complemented the efforts of the data entry supervisors on internal consistency checks. Some of the checks done included:
· Ensuring that the main and secondary economic activities described in the CBR questionnaire were assigned the correct ISIC codes at 4 digit level.
· Ensuring establishments clearly described the economic activities which they are engaged in according to the products or service lines they offered, and this made it easy to determine the industrial class of any economic activity given.
· When recovering CBR questionnaires from establishments, ZIMSTAT enumerators would ensure that the economic activities were described in not less than two words.
· The CBR editing/coding team was issued with some editing and coding instructions which included some ISIC Rev. 4 coding manuals. The International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities (ISIC) Revision 4 coding manuals have some mutually exclusive categories at the highest level called sections which are alphabetically coded A to U:
· Where the description of the economic activity was not clear, the CBR editor/coder would make some follow-ups by making phone calls where details were provided.
· Checking for duplicate serial numbers, duplication of establishments, i.e. serial numbers versus unique identification codes.
· Identify the corporate structure of enterprises and their respective establishments, i.e. enterprise profiling. All establishments belonging to an enterprise were determined using the names and physical addresses. Establishments that belong to the same enterprise have been linked using names and addresses, (the bottom up approach) and assigning numbers to them. What is required now is to do further profiling. It is after profiling that we can update the database and the quality of establishment level reporting improved.
· Checking of typographical errors that might cause noise in the data.
· Checking for missing serial numbers that may result in omissions.
· Ensuring that the main and secondary economic activities described in the CBR questionnaire were assigned the correct ISIC codes at 4 digit level.
· Ensuring establishments clearly described the economic activities which they are engaged in according to the products or service lines they offered, and this made it easy to determine the industrial class of any economic activity given.
· When recovering CBR questionnaires from establishments, ZIMSTAT enumerators would ensure that the economic activities were described in not less than two words.
· The CBR editing/coding team was issued with some editing and coding instructions which included some ISIC Rev. 4 coding manuals. The International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities (ISIC) Revision 4 coding manuals have some mutually exclusive categories at the highest level called sections which are alphabetically coded A to U:
· Where the description of the economic activity was not clear, the CBR editor/coder would make some follow-ups by making phone calls where details were provided.
· Checking for duplicate serial numbers, duplication of establishments, i.e. serial numbers versus unique identification codes.
· Identify the corporate structure of enterprises and their respective establishments, i.e. enterprise profiling. All establishments belonging to an enterprise were determined using the names and physical addresses. Establishments that belong to the same enterprise have been linked using names and addresses, (the bottom up approach) and assigning numbers to them. What is required now is to do further profiling. It is after profiling that we can update the database and the quality of establishment level reporting improved.
· Checking of typographical errors that might cause noise in the data.
· Checking for missing serial numbers that may result in omissions.
Data Appraisal
Data Appraisal
A series of data quality tables and graphs are available to review the quality of the data and include the following:
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Province
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Industry according to the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Rev 4.
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Employment Size
•Number of Establishments by Age
•Number and Percent Distribution of Employees by Province
•Value and Percent Distribution of Salaries, Wages and Allowances by Province
•Number of Establishments by Employment size and Annual Turnover (US$)
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Majority Share Ownership and Type of Ownership
•Number of New Establishments by Industry
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Province
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Industry according to the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Rev 4.
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Employment Size
•Number of Establishments by Age
•Number and Percent Distribution of Employees by Province
•Value and Percent Distribution of Salaries, Wages and Allowances by Province
•Number of Establishments by Employment size and Annual Turnover (US$)
•Number and Percent Distribution of Establishments by Majority Share Ownership and Type of Ownership
•Number of New Establishments by Industry
Data access
Contact
| Name | URI | |
|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency | info@zimstat.co.zw | www.zimstat.co.zw |
Disclaimer and copyrights
Copyright
(c) Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT)
Contacts
Contact
| Name | Affiliation | URI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manager, Statistics Databases Branch | Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency | cbr@zimstat.co.zw | www.zimstat.co.zw |
Metadata production
Document ID
zwe_zimstat_cbr_2014_v1
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency | ZIMSTAT | Metadata Producer |
Date of Production
2014-11-30
Document version
Version 1 (November 2014).