Statistical business register
A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.[1]
A company register has a different purpose: protection, accountability and control of legal entities.
Register contents
Data sources
Countries use whatever data sources they seem relevant. E.g. they often integrate a company register in one form or another.
Type of business units
In EU a corresponding regulation define register contents:
- all enterprises carrying on economic activities contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP), and their local units
- the legal units of which those enterprises consist
- enterprise groups
Characteristics
- identification properties
- identification number
- name
- address
- contact info
- VAT number
- dates of creation/liquidation
- main activity
- operational status
- legal form
- links to other registries
- links to other organizations or structural units
- control
- ownership
- employees
Business registries in the world
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe provides Guidelines on Statistical Business Registers which describes the roles of the statistical business register.[2]
European Commission provides a legal framework for business registers for statistical purposes.[3]
- Germany: Business Register System
References
- ^ Ritzen, Jean. "Statistical Business Register: Content, place and role in Economic Statistics" (PDF). Statistics Netherlands.
- ^ "Guidelines on Statistical Business Registers". Guidelines on Statistical Business Registers. UNECE.
- ^ "Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93". European Commission.