The Business Statistics directorate, within the National Statistics Office (NSO), is responsible for the collection of data from businesses.
Around 9,000 enterprises are surveyed out of an active business population of 30,000 enterprises. The units are categorised according to their size class of employment and the principal activity (NACE). There are also a number of infra-annual statistics compilations for business enterprises which are one pager questionnaires mainly dealing with employment, turnover, production and prices. These are collected very frequently, as these are used to assess the whole economy. These questionnaires are split monthly for manufacturing and are disseminated quarterly to wholesale and retail and services sectors firms.
Registered businesses may submit the survey’s online
here.
To access the online business surveys, click
here.
For SBS and Intrastat applications, submissions can be lengthy and in those
cases, the respondent can save the questionnaire as draft and resume later. For
eSTS and Accomstat, the questionnaire is shorter, so this feature is not
available. For Intrastat, the length of the declaration depends on the
number of goods imported and/or exported by the trader, which can vary from one
item to thousands. Thus, the time to complete the declaration varies. Traders
have also the option to upload the data in XML format for large declarations to
reduce the time taken to submit the declaration form.
Contact Details:
National Statistics Office
Business Statistics Directorate
Mr Manuel Tabone - Director
Tel: +35625997505
Email: manuel.tabone@gov.mt
last updated 23 June 2021