Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities, structural business statistics.
10.16 Other service activities.
Annual.
National level.
Division for Construction and Service Statistics (460).
Statistics Act Sections 2-2 and 2-3.
None.
None.
The structural statistics for Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities is part of the business statistics of Statistics Norway, and present information about the activities in this industry on the basis of financial information. The statistics was first published in 1995.
National Accounts and other divisions of Statistics Norway.
The structural statistics for Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities are organized according to the NACE-standard and include the following industry division:
90 Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities.
Information on most enterprises is obtained from the Register of Annual Company Reports in Brønnøysund, the VAT Register, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities employee/employer section (the Aa-Register), and through the structural survey of Statistics Norway.
The Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises is used to obtain necessary information about the population. The VAT Register, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, information from trade organizations and direct input from the enterprises are used to update the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises.
Census.
Turnover of enterprises is obtained from The Register of Annual Company Reports in Brønnøysund, from the VAT Register and from the General Trading Statements (NO, appendix to tax return). The remaining enterprises are asked to report turnover through the structural survey of Statistics Norway.
Revisions and corrections are carried out on the information obtained from the structural survey. The raw data are checked against reports for last year, the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises, the Register of Annual Company Reports in Brønnøysund and other available sources, and by contacting the respondent if necessary.
No variables are estimated.
If less than three enterprises/ Local KAU's represents a statistical variable, the numbers are not published. The reason is the risk that the units can be identified. This is especially critical when regional data are published.
In the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) an enterprise is the smallest combination of legal entities that is an organizational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision making.
The SIC defines a local KAU as a functional unit, which at a single physical location is engaged primarily in activities within a specific activity group.
Owners include owners of sole proprietorships, or general partnerships, and family members who work for the enterprise on a daily basis without receiving regular wages. Co-owners of limited companies and cooperatives who are paid for working for the enterprise are not included, nor are family members of owners of sole proprietorships or general partnerships when they receive regular wages.
Employees mean all persons who work for the employer, have an employment contract and receive compensation in the form of wages, pay, fee, bonuses, payment in kind etc. Employees temporarily absent due to illness, holiday, labour disputes etc. are included, while employees absent because of military service are excluded.
Employment is the sum of owners and employees. Persons with more than one job may be counted as an employee in several industries. Employment statistics show the average number of persons employed in the year.
Turnover is defined as the sum of remuneration for rendering of services to customers and sales of merchandise, and gross income from other activities. Rental income and commissions are included, while subsidies and profits from sales of business assets are not. VAT is not included in the statistics.
The Standard Industrial Classification (SN94) used in Statistics Norway is based on the EU Standard NACE Rev. 1. This standard is published in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) series C 182 (1994).
The results of a statistical survey may contain some collection and processing errors.
Collection errors occur when the provider of the data gives incorrect answers due to forgetfulness, misunderstanding of questions etc. Processing errors are errors from coding or errors that occur during the transferring of information from the questionnaire to a machine-readable medium or during revisions.
Non-response will always be a factor in form-based surveys. This is because some respondents either do not return their forms or return them incompletely filled out. The enterprises that do not return their forms are treated like the enterprises that are not in the sample.
The survey is based on data from the whole population.
Errors in the administrative registers may be a potential source of uncertainty in the statistics.
Generally, when making comparisons with previously published figures it must be kept in mind that older data may have been corrected during later revisions. Updating of industries in the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises may also have caused revisions for some of the industries. These changes have not been dated back.
The structural business statistics of Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities is part of Statistics Norway's structural statistics covering most industries. In addition to structural statistics, short-term statistics of industries are published. These cover periods less than one year and are published only on a national level.
Parts of the population within industry division 90, Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities, are also covered in the following statistics:
Kostra, The municipal wastewater sector: http://www.ssb.no/var_kostra_en/
Kostra, Household waste: http://www.ssb.no/avfkomm_en/
Primary data and information on sample units and population are stored temporarily in the programming language SAS, and stored permanently as text-files.
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