Advancement of treatment of large and complex enterprises in official statistics. Creation of new statistical products by linking data sets: 2021-NO-BR-MNE-MDL

Programme: Single Market Programme (SMP)-undefined

Topic: SMP-ESS-2021-BR-MNE-MDL-H1-5698

Type of action: SMP European Statistics

Project ID: 101051864

Objective

Advancement in LCU implementation and MDL for analysis of COVID-19 policy response: Statistics Norway will continue its efforts to improve the treatment of large and complex enterprises in its balance of payments (BoP) and national accounts (NA). These cases are often multinational and have business models which are difficult to measure according to international BoP and NA standards. As they are also large, they have a significant impact in various statistics, and their multinational activities mean the measurement issues affect several countries' statistics. By linking microdata from different sources (MDL) statistical institutes can produce new statistical products and new insight, extracting more value from data at zero cost to respondents. Statistics Norway will build upon its experience with MDL and add a new data source on COVID-19 relief packages to enterprises, enabling an analysis of the Norwegian government's policy response to the pandemic. Similar initiatives in Denmark and Finland can yield a comparison of policies and effects in the three countries.