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“Cooperation and

coordination in data

collection – A new register that gives better quality for

all or..?”

Bergen 2013

Knut Håkon Grini

Statistics Norway, Department of economics, energy and the environment

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What’s the point?

Digitally coordinated information gathering from

employers about jobs, earnings and taxes

To:

• Norwegian Tax Administration

• Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service

• Statistics Norway

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From 6 to 1

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Employer Employee

Receiving

authority

(EFF)

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Enterprise

(Employer)

Employee A

Deductions Tax Remuneration

Local unit 1 Local unit ...n

About the employment

Employee ...n

What’s in it for Statistics Norway?

• Covers all

• Monthly

• Multiple usage (three authorities)

• Information about employment and

remuneration

• Timely

• Quality

Do we actually loose anything?

Actual improvements and possibilities

• Annual register based employment statistics

– Better quality

– Possibility for increased frequency

• Earnings

– Cost reduction

– Full coverage

– Better quality

– Possibility for increased frequency

• Labour cost statistics

– Full coverage (for approx 98 % of the costs)

– Better quality

• The LFS

– Possibility for some tables from new source (no sample error)

– Possibility for cost reductions

Better for all?

• On paper - yes!

• All arguments in the paper say so

• Other experiences seems positive

• Project progress is good

• As long as the data actually comes in

it’ll be a breeze

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Progress

2012 2013 2014 2015

Legislation

Further regulations

Development and

testing

Trial periode (in parrallell with

existing reporting)

Full operations