Guidelines on the use of statistical business registers for business demography and entrepreneurship statistics

"This publication provides practical guidance on developing and maintaining statistical business registers to support the production of business demography and entrepreneuship statistics. The guidelines provide definitions and compilation guidance for demographic events such as births and deaths of enterprises, describe the requirements for the statistical business register to produce business demography statistics and propose business demography indicators that can be produced directly from the statistical business. The Guidelines also give guidance onlinking the statistical register with information from administrative registers and other data sources to produce business and entrepreneurship statistics"--Back cover.