Data Collection — Map of Content

This MOC explains how an energy-statistics system identifies reporting units, specifies the observations to collect, obtains data, and compiles statistical results. It connects the Chapter VI framework for statistical units and data items with Chapter VII’s legal, institutional, collection-design, source, and compilation guidance (IRES Ch. VI–VII).

Each annotation describes what its linked page defines, specifies, maps, organizes, evaluates, or compiles. Start with statistical-unit and data-item pages for what to collect and from whom; follow the legal, reporter, scope, source, and compilation pages for how to design and operate the collection.

Concepts

• Statistical Units - distinguishes observation from analytical units, defines the five statistical-unit types, applies the Figure 6.1 corporate example, and explains the recommendation to use establishments for energy statistics
• Statistical Unit Characteristics - specifies the seven characteristics used to identify and classify statistical units and explains their coding, location, activity, organizational, ownership, operating-period, and size requirements
• Data Items on Energy Flows and Stocks - builds the common flow-and-stock data-item template, specifies product-specific items, defines gross and net electricity and heat production, and distinguishes computed “own use” from the EIOU flow
• Production, Storage and Transmission Capacity - specifies capacity data items and definitions for natural gas storage, oil refineries, biofuel and waste plants, and electricity and heat plants
• Economic Performance Data Items - defines data items for prices, taxes, subsidies, gross output, employment, and gross fixed capital formation and anchors their valuation and detail in SNA 2008 and IRIS
• Mineral and Energy Resources - classifies energy-relevant resources and commercial recoverability through Tables 6.1 and 6.2 and specifies opening- and closing-stock data items
• Legal Framework and Institutional Arrangements - explains how legislation supports mandatory reporting and confidentiality, defines the national system and lead-agency role, compares centralized and decentralized models, and identifies effective institutional arrangements
• Energy Data Reporter Groups - maps collection strategies to energy industries, other energy producers, energy consumers, and the informal sector and explains the coverage challenges of each reporter group
• Scope and Frequency of Data Collection - structures collection around six scope dimensions, distinguishes reference periods from collection frequency, defines monthly, quarterly, and annual tiers, and connects energy collection with the wider statistical system
• Statistical Data Sources - compares censuses with sample surveys, lays out the survey-design workflow, and distinguishes enterprise, ad hoc, household, and mixed household-enterprise surveys
• Statistical Business Register - defines the statistical business register as the recommended frame for list-based enterprise surveys, explains its maintenance and use, and provides a fallback when no current register exists
• Administrative Data Sources - distinguishes publicly from privately controlled administrative sources and evaluates their coverage, access, cost, quality, advantages, and limitations
• Data Compilation Methods - explains data validation and editing, describes imputation for missing observations, develops population estimation through grossing up, and covers outlier identification and treatment

Entities

• International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities - supplies kind-of-activity codes for statistical-unit classification and the Figure 6.1 example while connecting collection units with the industry and consumer classifications used elsewhere in IRES
• System of National Accounts - supplies the activity distinctions that separate energy industries from other producers, defines households, and anchors Chapter VI consumer-price and gross-output valuation
• System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Energy - connects IRES data items and flows with physical, monetary, and asset accounts, supplies the resource framework behind Tables 6.1 and 6.2, and explains how energy balances feed energy accounts
• United Nations Framework Classification for Fossil Energy and Mineral Reserves and Resources - classifies mineral and energy resources by viability, project feasibility, and geological knowledge and underpins Table 6.2’s commercial-recoverability classes and resource-stock items
• International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics - connects energy collection with general industrial statistics and supplies reference guidance for economic data items, unit characteristics, survey design, mixed surveys, compilation, and imputation

Sources

• IRES Chapter VI — Statistical Units and Data Items - defines statistical units and their characteristics and specifies the complete reference list of flow, stock, capacity, economic-performance, and resource data items (IRES Ch. VI, paras 6.1–6.93)
• IRES Chapter VII — Data Collection and Compilation - establishes the legal and institutional framework, organizes collection strategies and sources, and explains validation, imputation, estimation, and outlier treatment (IRES Ch. VII, paras 7.2–7.69)

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