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Constructing and Maintaining a Business Register: Singapore’s Experience By Ong Lai Heng Singapore Department of Statistics Outline Background Overview of CEIS Uses of CEIS Coverage of Business Units Types of Statistical Units Definitions of Statistical Units Use of Central Registration Number Industrial Classification Data Items in CEIS Sources of Information Main Sources of Updates Quality Control Legal Authority Access to CEIS Challenges and Plans Background of Business Registerin Singapore Developed and Maintained by the Singapore Department of Statistics (SDOS). First set up in 1986, known as the Establishment Hub. Re-developed in 1996 as the Commercial Establishment Information System (CEIS). Overview of CEIS Database maintained by SDOS with data from different data sources. Contains a wide range of basic information pertaining to establishments in Singapore. Uses of CEIS Provides up-to-date and basic data on establishments Serves as a survey frame Provides Statistical analyses, eg formation and cessation rates, survival rates. Use of Central Registration(CR) Number Conversion of ACRA No. to CR-No. The CR-Number is a unique reference number assigned by the CEIS system to each establishment comprises 11 alpha-numeric characters and a check alphabet. Quality Control To pre scan incoming ACRA data and survey updates to detect possible errors eg out of bound records etc. Various surveys will also feedback ‘out-of-scope’ cases for further investigation. Joint Staff Working Group: Meets on a regular basis to discuss the industrial classification for relatively more complex and significant units which affects two or more surveys. Legal Authority The SOE and other short-term annual surveys conducted by SDOS under the Statistics Act. The Act also stipulated that the contents of individual returns received would be kept confidential and used only for statistical purposes, i.e. provide only aggregated data. Challenges and Plans Providing more up-to-da