Index of sales and services in industry (index of turnover, VAT and excise excluded)

Statistics Lithuania

Short term Business Statistics Division

Tatjana Kučeiko

Chief specialist

29 Gedimino Ave., LT-01500 Vilnius, Lithuania

tatjana.kuceiko@stat.gov.lt

+370 5 236 4643

+370 5 236 4749

2020-01-22

The index of sales and services in industry (index of turnover, VAT and excise excluded) measures short-term changes in turnover in mining, quarrying and manufacturing enterprises.

National version (EVRK Rev. 2) of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2)

Non-financial enterprises listed in sections B and C of EVRK Rev. 2.  

Sales income (turnover) refers to income from selling goods and/or providing services received by an economic entity in the reporting period (VAT and excise excluded). Income from selling fixed assets, financial and investment activity, dividend, etc., as well as funding from the budget, are excluded.

Turnover is divided into domestic and non-domestic; non-domestic turnover is in turn divided into euro area and non-euro area.

Index of turnover is a relative indicator showing the change in turnover during a certain time period.

The index of turnover is a simplevalue index; a total index, domestic and non-domestic turnover indices are calculated.

Kind of activity unit

Enterprises of all sizes and types with the main economic activity defined in sections B and C of EVRK Rev. 2.

Whole country area

Since 1998

2015

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Month

Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of May 1998 concerning short-term statistics, as last amended by Commission  Regulation (EC) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012

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In the process of statistical data collection, processing and analysis and dissemination of statistical information, Statistics Lithuania fully guarantees the confidentiality of the data submitted by respondents (households, enterprises, institutions, organisations and other statistical units), as defined in the Confidentiality Policy Guidelines of Statistics Lithuania.

Description of Statistical Disclosure Control Methods, approved by Order No DĮ-124 of 27 May 2008 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

Integrated Statistical Information System Data Security Regulations and Rules for the Secure Management of Electronic Information in the Integrated Statistical Information System, approved by Order No DĮ-240 of 16 September 2020 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

 Statistical information is published on the Official Statistics Portal according to the Official Statistics Calendar

Official Statistics Calendar

Statistical information is published following the Official Statistics Dissemination Policy Guidelines and Statistical Information Preparation and Dissemination Rules (only in Lithuanian).

Monthly

A news release on the distribution of turnover on domestic and non-domestic markets and changes therein is published on the 22st day after the end of the reference month.

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Database of Indicators (Business statistics -> Industry -> Index of sales and services)

Microdata are available and provided for scientific purposes according to the provisions set in the Description of Procedures for the Provision of Confidential Statistical Data for Scientific Purposes. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, at Data for scientific purposes.

Public data files: users are also provided with opportunity to access public files with statistical data on observation units. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, at Public data files.

Eurostat's database

Industry

The quality of statistical information and its production process is ensured by the provisions of the European Statistics Code of Practice and ESS Quality Assurance Framework. 

In 2007, a quality management system, conforming to the requirements of the international quality management system standard ISO 9001, was introduced at Statistics Lithuania. The main trends in activity of Statistics Lithuania aimed at quality management and continuous development in the institution are established in the Quality Policy. Monitoring of the quality indicators of statistical processes and their results and self-evaluation of statistical survey managers is regularly carried out in order to identify the areas which need improvement and to promptly eliminate the shortcomings.

Before the results are presented to users, additional statistical data quality control at the macro data level is performed. Statistical indicator estimates are compared with those from the previous period and the corresponding period of the previous year. The coefficient of variation (relative standard error), used as the main measure of the accuracy of estimate, does not exceed 3 per cent.

The main users of statistical information are State and municipal authorities and agencies, Eurostat, international organisations, the media, research and business community, students, whose needs are satisfied without a breach of the confidentiality principle.

From 2005, user opinion surveys have been conducted on a regular basis. Official Statistics Portal traffic is monitored, website visitor opinion polls, general opinion poll on the products and services of Statistics Lithuania, target user group opinion polls and other surveys are conducted. In 2007, the compilation of a user satisfaction index was launched. The said surveys are aimed at the assessment of the overall demand for and necessity of statistical information in general and specific statistical indicators in particular.

More information on user surveys and their results is available in section User surveys on the Statistics Lithuania website.

The indicator is published at the EVRK Rev. 2 B, C section and division, Main Industrial Grouping (MIG) levels.

The contents of the indicator comply with the EU requirements.

100 per cent of information produced in accordance with the Official Statistics Programme Part I is published.

The survey is conducted using a sampling method. The sampling design is based on information from the Statistical Business Register about the number of persons employed and income of enterprises. Enterprises are assigned to strata according to the kind of activity and the number of persons employed. The sample size is divided into strata by reducing the variance of estimates of the number of persons employed at a fixed sample size. The sample represents about 80 per cent of the total number of persons employed and about 95 per cent of income.

Statistical data are analysed by estimating outliers; data are edited. The overall accuracy is high, the errors are significantly lower than those recommended for business statistics.

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Statistical information is published on the 40th day after the end of the reference month.

Statistical information is published in accordance with an Official Statistics Calendar. In case of delay, users are notified in advance by indicating the reason and a new date of publication.

100 per cent

Statistical information is comparable across the EU.

Full comparability is ensured.

Since January 1998.

The values of the indicator “Turnover” are comparable with structural business statistics.

The values of the indicators are internally coherent. The aggregated values of indicators are derived from lower-level values in accordance with an established procedure.

Average time spent by a respondent on the filling-in of a statistical survey questionnaire in 2018 – 44 min.

The revision policy of Statistics Lithuania is provided in the document General Principles behind the Performance, Analysis and Announcement of Revisions of Statistical Indicators.

There are two revisions which are made to the indicators “Turnover” and “Index of turnover”:

1) the value and index for the pre-reference month are revised on a monthly basis;

2) the values and indices for all months are revised at the end of the year.

Revisions are conducted in accordance with an approved statistical information revision calendar.

Average of the change obtained during the revision 2018: Mean Absolute Revision (MAR) is 0.55 per cent. point (compared to previous month) and Mean Revision (MR) is 0,03 per cent (compared to previous month).

Monthly industrial enterprise activity statistical questionnaire P-11 (sections B and C of EVRK Rev.2). Data on small enterprises (1–4 persons employed) are estimated using administrative data sources – monthly VAT returns (State Tax Inspectorate data). The said source is also used for the estimation of data on non-responding enterprises, alongside with available data for previous periods, recalculated taking into account the number of days worked in the reference month.

Monthly

Statistical data are collected through an electronic statistical data preparation and transfer system e-Statistics, email, fax, mail. Statistical questionnaire (only in Lithuanian).

Statistical data control requirements are set in the survey programming technical task.

An error protocol is formed from the errors detected, containing the error code, error text, error attribute, indicating whether the error must be corrected or may be ignored. Errors can be logical and arithmetical; they may have been made by the respondent, occurred at the data entry or processing stage.

In order to ensure statistical data quality, additional primary data check is performed (reediting, statistical data validation). The error protocol is checked, links between the indicators are analysed, etc.

The results are compared against previous periods and other survey data.

The estimates are computed using regular stratified random sampling formulae (ratio estimator).

The indices of the indicators are calculated by comparing against the base year’s monthly average.

The process of the preparation of statistical information is described in the industrial enterprise activity statistical survey methodology (only in Lithuanian).

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19.2.1 1) The subject of the monthly revision is the pre-reference month; 2) The subjects of the annual revisions are the 12 months time series of the current year.