Statistical business register

A statistical business register plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.
In comparison, a company register has different purposes: protection, accountability, and control of legal entities.

Register contents

Countries use whatever data sources they seem relevant: e.g. they often integrate a company register in one form or another.

In EU a corresponding regulation defines register contents:

all enterprises carrying on economic activities contributing to the gross domestic product, and their local units
the legal units of which those enterprises consist
enterprise groups
List of details recorded
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

provides Guidelines on Statistical Business Registers which describes the roles of the statistical business register.
European Commission provides a legal framework for business registers for statistical purposes.
''See: List of company, tax and statistical business registers''