Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, turnover (discontinued), 1st period 2015

National level.

Frequency: Bi-monthly. Timeliness: The Statistic is disseminated about 17 weeks after the end of the period.

Not relevant.

Information about the units (micro level) and the population is stored in the programme language SAS.

The statistics is supposed to map out the level and development in turnover within the water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities. The data series starts in 2008.

The main users are public and private sector agencies, organizations and individuals. The National accounts statistics and the Research department of Statistics Norway are also among the users.

No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 08 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given inthe Statistics Release Calendar. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally.

The statistics is being compiled simultaneously with the statistics for other industries which are obliged to pay VAT. The distribution key for the turnover for businesses within enterprises is being collected from Statistic Norway Business Register’s annual file. Data on employment is collected from the Register of Employees and Employers. (the AA-register)

The Statistics Art, Section §3-2.

Not relevant.

The population consists of units registered in the VAT register within water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (36, 37, 38 and 39) according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007). Units owned by the public, at national, regional or local level are excluded from the population, unless they operate in a free market for profit. The statistical unit is local KAU. Enterprise is the reporting unit, i.e. an enterprise with a turnover exceeding NOK 50 000 a year.

The VAT register. Full census survey.

The statistics is register-based. The questionnaires containing information about turnover are sent to the respective county tax offices. The county tax offices transmit data to the Directorate of Taxes once a week. StatisticsNorwayreceives data from the Directorate of Taxes two times each period. The deadline for sending questionnaires to the county tax offices is 1 month and 10 days after the end of the period. The data is sent to Statistics Norway about three weeks later.

For the bimonthly statistics the values are aggregated to represent totals for the different industries. When a VAT-unit consists of more than one active enterprise, the data is being divided according to registered turnover in the last annual data file from the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises or the Register of Employees and Employers (the AA-register).

Not relevant.

If a table cell consists of less then three observations, the data for the actual table cell will not be published. This is necessary to avoid identifying the individual data from the actual local KAUs.

The data goes back to the first period of 2008 and uses the same method for the whole period. With the change in the VAT return form from 2017 improvements have been made in production. The data for 2016 have been updated according to this.