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Source Contact person/organisation Contact person/organisationUsers are encouraged to send their comments, or questions to stat.contact@oecd.org mentioning Trade by Enterprise Characteristics in the title of their message.
Direct source Direct sourceTEC data are collected in co-operation with Eurostat, directly from the National Statistical Offices, through a linkage exercise between trade and business registers.
Data Characteristics Data Characteristics Variables collected Variables collectedTEC by partner countries and size-class
This table presents export/import information by enterprise size class and partner country.
Concepts & Classifications Concepts & Classifications Key statistical concept Key statistical conceptThe central issue of trade by enterprise characteristics is to disaggregate trade flows according the characteristics of the enterprises engaged in cross-border transactions. The feasibility of doing so largely depends on the possibility of using or developing common identifiers between the trade register and the business register. Countries differ in their ability to perform such a linking, and matching ratios (between business and trade registers) vary across countries, and as a consequence the degree of representativeness of the results also varies across countries.
Other Aspects Other Aspects Recommended uses and limitations Recommended uses and limitationsEU countries break down trade data into Intra- and extra- EU zones, whereas non EU countries report their Total trade. Trade values have been aggregated for EU countries and Total (Intra-EU plus Extra-EU) trade flows are displayed, whereas Intra and Extra-EU data expressed in term of number of enterprises cannot be summed up, because of possible double-counting (same enterprise can be trader in both intra- and extra- EU trade). Data have been collected in ISIC revision 3 from 2003 up to 2007 and in ISIC revision 4 as from reference year 2008. Time series are affected by this change in classification, and thus data are displayed into two separate databases.
Users are encouraged to send their comments, or questions to stat.contact@oecd.org mentioning Trade by Enterprise Characteristics in the title of their message.
TEC data are collected in co-operation with Eurostat, directly from the National Statistical Offices, through a linkage exercise between trade and business registers.
TEC by partner countries and size-class
This table presents export/import information by enterprise size class and partner country.
The central issue of trade by enterprise characteristics is to disaggregate trade flows according the characteristics of the enterprises engaged in cross-border transactions. The feasibility of doing so largely depends on the possibility of using or developing common identifiers between the trade register and the business register. Countries differ in their ability to perform such a linking, and matching ratios (between business and trade registers) vary across countries, and as a consequence the degree of representativeness of the results also varies across countries.
EU countries break down trade data into Intra- and extra- EU zones, whereas non EU countries report their Total trade. Trade values have been aggregated for EU countries and Total (Intra-EU plus Extra-EU) trade flows are displayed, whereas Intra and Extra-EU data expressed in term of number of enterprises cannot be summed up, because of possible double-counting (same enterprise can be trader in both intra- and extra- EU trade). Data have been collected in ISIC revision 3 from 2003 up to 2007 and in ISIC revision 4 as from reference year 2008. Time series are affected by this change in classification, and thus data are displayed into two separate databases.