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Objective of this reporting standard Objective of this reporting standard
Objective of this reporting standard
This reporting standard is made under section 13 of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001. It requires general insurers to provide APRA with information on public liability, product liability and professional indemnity policies and facility business, covering similar risks, during a reporting period.
Appendix A: Data Validation Appendix A: Data Validation
Appendix A: Data Validation
As well as unit record validation, overall reasonability checks will be carried out on each insurer’s data.
With each half-yearly data submission
Various comparisons between the current reporting period and the previous period will be carried out in order to monitor data reasonability and consistency. These may include:
- Change in the aggregate Gross Earned Premium, split by two digit ANZSIC code or single character occupation code;
- Changes in the total numbers of policies and claims;
- Counts of claims by various measures; causes of loss, severity or litigation status; and
- Changes in the average and total claims paid.
As well, various reasonability checks will be carried out within each period submission, including;
- Overuse of the various ‘Other’ categories and codes; and
- Comparison of the various premium fields against each other.
Other reasonability checks may be carried out on an ad hoc basis.