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STS339 Takashi IOKA
2.2 Profiling
The SBJ is planning to introduce the Profiling from 2019. The members
of the expert profiling staff along with the National Statistics Center will
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regularly contact and communicate with the headquarters of major
enterprise groups through an interactive profiling system and grasp the
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latest information on the structure and activities of major enterprise
groups. The information gathered by the profilers will be promptly
recorded in the BR. The role of the profiling staff is not only to gather
information from large enterprises but also to reduce their response
burden by helping and supporting them to respond to the surveys
conducted by the Japanese government.

Figure 2: Image of the Profiling

3. Results
New quality assurance frameworks for the BR in Japan will start from 2019.
After conducting the Economic Census 2019 by using the Corporate Number,
it is expected that the frame of the BR will be updated in an even more efficient
and precise manner. This means that a high-quality BR frame will be available
for the next Economic Census for Business Activity 2021 and other official
statistics by using the results of the Economic Census 2019. As for the Profiling,
it is expected that the accuracy of the data on large enterprises in the BR will
improve more than ever. In addition, it is expected that the response burden
of the large enterprises will be reduced by helping and supporting them to
respond to the surveys conducted by the Japanese government.

7 It is expected that around fifty staff members will be engaged in the profiling.
8 It is expected that around three to five thousand enterprises will be the subjects for the
Profiling.

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