A statistical business register (SBR) plays a central part in a system of official economic statistics at a national statistics office.[1]
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 (GDP), and their local units
- the legal units of which those enterprises consist
- enterprise groups
List of details recorded
- identification properties
- identification number
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]
See: List of company, tax and statistical business registers
References
- Jean Ritzen. Statistical Business Register: Content, place and role in Economic Statistics. 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