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
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 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
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 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''