A statistical business register (SBR) 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
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performanc ...
(GDP), 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
The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...
provides a legal framework for business registers for statistical purposes.
''See:
List of company, tax and statistical business registers''
References
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Economic databases
Corporate law