SESTA (NIS - Belgium)

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Overview

SESTA is a electronic form related to the yearly Structural Business Statistics of the belgian Industry. Developed by the National Bank of Belgium with the collaboration of the NIS, SESTA offers the following functions:

  • Management of the general data related to the enterprise, the activity sector and the employees;
  • Collection of the accounting data according to the profile of the PSI with consistency checks;
  • Printing of data;
  • Sending of data to NIS Belgium;
  • Management of the local database (backup and restore of the database);
  • Help modules.
SESTA allows to create a file under a standard predefined format; the PSI sends this file on a floppy disk to the NIS. Those data, after consistency checks, are integrated in the MVS/DB2 database located on the mainframe.

Platforms

Developed with MS-Access, SESTA is a GUI application for Windows platforms.

Type of users

SESTA is a multilingual tool available in Dutch and French to enterprises Providers of Statistical Information in Belgium.

Distribution of the package

Figures about the number of users are not provided.

Availability of the software

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Source document containing the complete description

Doc. CoRD024: "A brief outline on existing data collection tools and new developments at National Institute of Statistics of Belgium"
 

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