Economic Results in Market Services

Introductory note

The publication “Economic Results in Market Services 2000-2003“ contains information on the development of basic employment and financial data indicators on activities that are classified by CZ-NACE in the following divisions:

70– Real estate activities,
71 – Renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of personal and household goods,
72 – Computer and related activities,
73 – Research and development,
74 – Other business activities,
75 – Public administration and defence; compulsory social security,
80 – Education,
85 – Health and social work,
90 – Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities,
91 – Activities of membership organizations,
92 – Recreational, cultural and sporting activities,
93 – Other service activities.

The publication shows the results of processing of annual statistical questionnaires P5-01 and P4-01. Reporting units were enterprises. To a large extent, data in the questionnaire had logical links to the system of accounts.

Questionnaires P5-01 were sent in the above-mentioned years to legal persons and incorporated natural persons. The number of indicators divided the questionnaires into the following size versions according to employment of the specific business:

questionnaire version (m) designed for enterprises with 0 employees (except joint-stock companies)*,
questionnaire version (a) designed for enterprises with 1 to 19 employees (except joint-stock companies),
questionnaire version (b) designed for enterprises with 20 to 99 employees (including joint-stock companies employing 0 to 99 persons),
questionnaire version (c) designed for enterprises with 100+ employees (including joint-stock companies).

* This version was introduced from the reference period of the year 2002 (previously the questionnaire version (a) was used also for enterprises with 0 employees) when this statistical survey underwent partial adjustments to the methodology (questionnaire content revision, changes in the system of processing results), which were related inter alia to changing requirements of Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Communities) for annual structural surveys (Council Regulation No 58/1997).

Questionnaire P5-01 was prepared considering double-entry bookkeeping. The questionnaire versions differed one from another in the number of indicators. Among questionnaires P5-01, version P5-01 (m) and previously version P5-01 (a) was the least extensive. They asked about selected information on enterprise characteristics and organisational changes, labour and wages indicators, economic result, receipts and expenditures, and overall assets and liabilities indicators. Financial data were taken from accounting statements (balance sheet, profit and loss account) and completed in the questionnaire in whole thousands of CZK. In addition to the above so-called “core part” of the questionnaire, selected questionnaires contained independent sections designed for the specification of selected indicators by codes of the modified CZ-CPA (SKPm) and other independent supplements.

Questionnaires P4-01 were sent in the above-mentioned years to unincorporated natural persons. Irrespective of their size, these reporting units were surveyed using a single type of the questionnaire. It asked about selected indicators on labour and wages, receipts and expenditures, property and obligations, and basic investment data. Questionnaire P4-01 was drawn up considering single-entry bookkeeping. In case a unit used double-entry bookkeeping, it had to adapt the reporting of receipts and expenditures to single-entry bookkeeping. Reporting units applying expenditures as a percentage of the receipts completed the questionnaire according to a guess of individual components of receipts and expenditures. Financial data were completed in whole CZK.

You can find more about individual questionnaires on CZSO web pages in part “Patterns of statistical questionnaires” at http://dw.czso.cz/pls/vykazy/pdf1.

In view of the high number of entities being in business in observed industries, a combination of exhaustive and sample survey was chosen. Reporting units were selected from the Business Register (BR). Exhaustive survey in the reference period usually covered reporting units with 20+ employees. Representative random samples were used for respondents up to 19 employees. Grossing up of the collected and validly completed questionnaires to the total population was carried out for the whole sample in the final stage of data processing. The grossing was made by the method of weight adjustment with weights computed on the basis of the probability sampling theory and using an additional variable of the number of employees and size of “sales” and other information on economic activity of enterprises taken from available administrative sources.

The data in the tables are broken down and aggregated according to the below-mentioned aspects:

by CZ-NACE,
by ISECTOR (institutional sectors),
by size of reporting units.

Tables 1 contain data for ISECTOR 11*+14*, by 2-digit CZ-NACE activity and size.
Tables 2 contain data for ISECTOR 11*+14*, by 3-digit CZ-NACE activity.
Tables 3 contain data by 2-digit CZ-NACE activity for enterprises from ISECTOR 11 that is further broken down into two basic sub-sectors which are ISECTOR 11001+11002 and ISECTOR 11003 (private foreign-controlled non-financial corporations).

Complementary information:

All the data are at current prices. The methodological contents of indicators are set out in part – METHODOLOGICAL NOTES on indicators. Monetary data in the tables are predominantly in millions of CZK. Calculations were made from source data given in CZK and in thousands of CZK. Minor discrepancies between calculated or summed data may occur due to rounding. In order to observe individual data protection, we were not able to publish all the results in all breakdowns.

The time series of data from the annual structural survey is available since 1997. The results for 1997-2000 are given in the publication “Results of Annual survey on Market Services 1997-2000” (code 1114-02, published in 2002). Data for 2000, 2001 and 2002 have been revised. In consequence of a change in methodology of the survey, data published for 1997-2000 are not comparable with the data contained in this publication.

If the data given in this publication are compared with the content-identical indicators from publications based on other surveys (monthly, quarterly), they may slightly differ. The discrepancies are attributed for example to the state of the Business Register on the day of generating samples for corresponding surveys (due to different samples), to current state of bookkeeping records of individual reporting units (corrections of bookkeeping records, final-accounts operations) and to further differences in methodology.

Results of the annual structural survey are used by the professional and lay public; they serve for example fulfilment of requirements by Eurostat for supply of data from structural statistics; they are also one of the sources of basic information necessary for the compilation of macroeconomic data such as GDP and the like.

Information on the development of basic indicators on market services is contained also in other publications and periodicals of the CZSO (in printed or electronic form on the Internet) according to the Catalogue of Publications 2005, thematic group 9 – SERVICES, subgroup 90 – Market Services. Among them are:

publication “Market Services” by quarter of 2005 – quarterly
results of the monthly survey on services published in form of News Releases and in form of time series on CZSO web pages www.czso.cz in section Time Series
comprehensive publications “CZSO Monthly Statistics” and “Quarterly Statistical Bulletin”, Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic.