ESENER-PSR 2009 - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

5.07 Greece
Address-source: ICAP Business Databank
Type of Source: Databank of business addresses compiled and maintained by the
research institute TNS ICAP
Sources for entries: * official sources
* information gathered through interviews
* others
Unit: Companies
Coverage of Sectors: NACE Rev. 1.1 L, M, N underrepresented
Codification of Sectors: NACE Rev. 1.1
Nr. of addresses in 10+: About 20.000 randomly selected companies
Updating: Regularly up-dated
Comments/Assessment:
Most complete and up-to-date business-register in Greece, but with weaknesses of
the address-source in the coverage of public entities in sectors Rev. 1.1 NACE M
(“Education”) and N (“Health and social work”) in which public institutions (schools,
hospitals, public health services etc.) usually make up for a considerable part of the
universe.
Addresses in the ICAP-databank are “rotated” regularly, i.e. in order to avoid an overresearch
especially of the larger companies the randomly chosen sample is replaced
from time to time by a new sample which is drawn from the remaining pool of
addresses. Since the absolute number of large companies/establishments is very
limited in Greece, this implies that in the largest size-classes only a relatively small
amount of addresses is available for interviewing.
Additional address-source:
Sectors used for: For NACE Rev. 1.1 L, M and N
Type of Additional Source: Yellow - Pages register
Unit: Establishments and partly also smaller units (such as
departments)
Coverage of Sectors: Practically complete representation of the relevant sectors
Codification of Sectors: Following logics of telephone registers, not codified according to
NACE or another acknowledged international classification
Comments/Assessment:
Addresses taken from the White Pages were coded manually according to NACE
(using the given headwords such as “municipality” etc.).
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