Services trade by enterprise characteristics (STEC)
1. Contact
Responsible agency
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Contact person
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Email (agency)
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2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Services trade by enterprise characteristics (hereinafter–STEC) statistics provide detailed and timely information on enterprises engaged in international trade in services by kind of economic activity (NACE Rev. 2) and size class of enterprises (by number of persons employed), product (EBOPS 2010), type of control.
For the STEC data compilation the existing national statistical data sources are used without increasing the burden to the respondents.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
N/A
Statistical population
Residents of Latvia (NACE Rev. 2 Sections A to U) who have services trade transactions with EU and non-EU (Extra-EU) countries.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics;
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics;
- Regulation (EC) No 184/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 January 2005 on Community statistics concerning balance of payments, international trade in services and foreign direct investment.
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
The data are comparable with the data of other European Union countries.
EU data on Eurostat website Section: International trade in services.
Length of comparable time series
Data are available since 2020.
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
The data is consisting with the Structural Business Statistics (SBS) and Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS).
The data in the database have been published based on the detailed records of annual services statistics (ITS) published by the Bank of Latvia (based on EBOPS 2010).
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
- Personalised individual data of enterprises on the exports and imports of services by type of service, collected and processed by the Bank of Latvia;
- Information from the Statistical business register.
Data collection
Data on the exports and imports of services are received from the Bank of Latvia.
Data compilation
Personalised individual data of enterprises on the exports and imports of services by type of service, collected and processed by the Bank of Latvia.
Statistics is compiled by types of activity according to NACE Rev. 2, by size classes according to the number of persons employed, products (EBOPS 2010) and type of control. For some service providers it is not possible to specify the economic activity, country, type of service or control. For example, travellers, natural persons or non-residents.