Area: Poslovni SOS
Competent authority: SURS
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 523
Initiative accepted and completed: '2015-05-05'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2015-04-17'
Initiative published: '2015-04-17'
Initiative submitted: '2015-03-31'
Response from the competent authority: 'Eurostat response:SURS carries out over 300
  statistical surveys a year, as well as a range of other regular and development
  tasks. The Annual Statistical Surveys Programme (ASSP) is published publicly in
  the Official Gazette (for 2015: Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No
  83/14) and on our website http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/glavnanavigacija/o-nas/zakonodaja-in-dokumenti/program-statisticnih-raziskovanj.
  Most of our statistical surveys are carried out on the basis of European legislation,
  including those involving the initiating enterprise. Information on whether a particular
  survey is carried out on the basis of European legal provisions is available in
  the LPSR. The same statistical surveys are also carried out in other Member States
  of the European Union; this means that related enterprises in other countries are
  also included in the observation and are obliged to report data to the national
  statistical offices or their delegated institutions.SURS obtains data for the fulfilment
  of its tasks either directly from the reporting agents or by drawing on sources
  already available. Despite the fact, as shown by the measurements carried out, that
  reporting to the statistical offices represents less than 1% of the total administrative
  burden for enterprises, the Office has been working for many years, through various
  measures, to ensure that the statistical reporting burden on enterprises is reasonable
  and as low as possible. Only those data are collected directly from enterprises
  by means of questionnaires which are not available in administrative sources or
  do not reach the required quality. The use of administrative sources for statistical
  purposes is well established in Slovenia; in this way, using sources that are already
  available, data are collected for well over half of the statistical surveys, while
  for the remaining surveys data have to be collected directly from enterprises. Data
  for surveys involving an enterprise that has taken the initiative to relieve administrative
  burden or simplify procedures cannot be obtained from other or administrative sources,
  so they are collected directly from enterprises.Only for a few statistical surveys
  (where it is strictly necessary) do we include in the observation all the enterprises
  that are the subject of the observation. In most cases, only a subset of enterprises
  are included in the observation; these are selected on the basis of statistical
  methods (probability or non-probability sample). Surveys based on a probability
  sample are carried out using a purposive (coordinated) sampling method; this means
  that enterprises, especially smaller ones (with fewer than 10 employees), are included
  on the basis of a more proportional distribution of the burden. In cases where the
  surveys are based on a non-probability sample, we include them "with a threshold";
  this means that we include all enterprises that meet certain conditions (e.g. number
  of employees, turnover, amount of waste disposed, share of resources invested in
  investment or development, etc.). This means that large and medium-sized enterprises
  are generally included in a larger number of surveys than small enterprises due
  to their importance.In Slovenia, the majority of enterprises (96%) are classified
  as "micro" enterprises (with less than 10 employees). Small enterprises (between
  10 and 49 employees) account for 3%, medium-sized and large enterprises (more than
  50 employees) for only 1%. Enterprises with 28 or more employees account for around
  2%. This means that all these enterprises are very important for the Slovenian economy
  and consequently equally important for statistical monitoring. A complete abolition
  of statistical reporting is not possible, as this would result in the abolition
  of national statistical activities and the inability to comply with EU legislation.We
  are aware that reporting data is a burden for enterprises, but from the above it
  can be summarised that we only collect data directly from reporting agents when
  there is no other option. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for
  completing the questionnaires so far, as they contribute to better statistical results
  by reporting data. These are intended for a wide range of users of statistical data,
  i.e. business, media, researchers, public administrations, EU institutions and the
  general public. All statistics produced by SURS on the basis of responses obtained
  directly from enterprises and data from other and administrative sources are available
  free of charge on our website www.stat.si.'
Text file: 523.txt
Title: SURS statistical questionnaires
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=523
