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© Federal Statistical Office, Business Register
Federal Statistical Office Germany
Information from Administrative Data for Business Register
Session 5: Projects on Improvements for Business Registers
Wiesbaden Group on Business RegistersParis, 26 November 2008 Anke Rink
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Outline short term administrative data for improving
quality of the business register
new source: Electronic Commercial Register (EHUG)
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Short term administrative data for improving quality of the business register
Approach today:
yearly delivery of administrative data for a certain reference date
Approach in future:
delivery of short term data, e.g. monthly
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Advantage of short term data:
more up-to-date information
information on seasonal changes
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For which characteristics can we use these data?
short term changes of identifiers, e.g. tax number
integration of new units in BR more up-to-date
closing of units in BR more up-to-date
changes in characteristics
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Electronic commercial register (EHUG)
The electronic commercial register contains all units of the commercial register.
In the commercial register with the exception of very small units, all enterprises have to be registered. The commercial register contains around 1.5 Mio active enterprises.
Recently, these data have been stored only on paper.
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For which purpose can we use EHUG?
We can update
Commercial Register identifier
address data
legal form
starting date of business activity
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Commercial Register identifier
The commercial register contains 1.5 Mio active enterprises with their commercial register identifier and another 2.2 Mio for closed companies.
Only 20% of all active enterprises (750 000 from 3.5 Mio) in the business register have recorded a commercial register identifier from other administrative sources.
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Address data
All enterprises have to communicate changes in their address to the commercial register.
The time lag of this information compared with other administrative sources is very small.
These domicile addresses are legally valid.
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Legal form
In the commercial register the legal form is correctly coded.
Other administrative data can have transcription errors or are not up to date.
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Starting date of business activity
In the BR the starting date of business activity is not always available.
In the commercial register, the date of the first registration is stored, this is equivalent with the starting date.
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EHUG BR
EHUG → BR
clear match1 : 1
ambigous match1 : n
no match1 : 0
new BR units
updating of the characteristics:
•trade number•legal form•address
matching by commercial register identifier
resolving
matching by address
clear match no match
Integration of data
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Thank you for your attention!
Anke RinkFederal Statistical Office of Germanyphone.: + 49 611 / 75-3578email: [email protected]