The main aim of Structural business statistics by regions is to provide basic data on development and structure by region and economic activity. A model developed for estimating regional Structural Business Statistics use Local Unit Register and Structural Business Statistics data on enterprise level to estimate data by regions. Local unit values are estimated as enterprise level values proportional to the employment for each local unit and activity factor. This factor depends on the difference between the activities of the local units within the enterprise.

In 2016, based on the final results of Structural Business Statistics operating in goods and services producers, the value added is 491,026 million ALL, marking an increase of 6.7 percent compared to 2015.

Table 1 shows the structure of indicators and their contribution by statistical regions for 2016. The results shows that Center region has the largest share in the country for all indicators: 40.8 percent of the number of local units, 50.9 percent of employment and 59.5 percent of value added. This region has the largest contribution to the value added growth rate by 6.4 percentage points, followed by North region by 1.5 percentage points and South region which has a negative contribution to -1, 2 percentage points in 2016.