Meeting Outputs

Meetings of the Wiesbaden Group:


28th Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Hosted and organized by Statistics Netherlands

2-6 October 2023    The Hague, Netherlands     Meeting Website

The following topics will be discussed:

  • Profiling complex Statistical Units
  • Globalization and Large Case Units
  • Industrial Classification Systems: Treatments for the upcoming NACE or ISIC revision and other industry classification issues
  • Maturity Model for SBRs
  • New data sources: Opportunity and challenges
  • Redesigns of the SBR

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27th Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Hosted and organized by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) of Mexico

20-23 September 2021    Mexico City, Mexico     Meeting Website
  • Challenges for SBRs (contribution of the SBR to the production of entrepreneurship statistics, to National Accounts, and to the measurement of digital economy, etcetera).
  • Innovations/new ways of interaction with users
  • New products, new data sources and the use of new computer and analysis tools in the SBR
  • Globalization, do the statistical business registers have the appropriate statistical units at hand?
  • Profiling and Large Cases Units Practical Aspects of reflecting Multinationals correctly in the Business Registers
  • Quality and statistical coverage
  • Usefulness of geospatial information

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26th Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Hosted and organized by the Federal Statistics Office of Switzerland

24-27 September 2018    Neuchatel, Switzerland     Meeting Website

Information about the meeting and submitted papers and reports is available on the meeting’s website.

The following countries and organizations participated in the meeting:

Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, State of Palestine, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, GCC-Stat, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

The following topics were discussed:

  • Innovation in Statistical Business Registers
  • Integrated Statistical Register Systems
  • Administrative Data
  • New Data Sources
  • Profiling and Globalisation
  • Quality and Coverage of Statistical Business Registers
  • Output of Statistical Business Registers

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25th Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Hosted and organized by the Statistics Bureau of Japan, Government of Japan

8-11 November 2016    Tokyo, Japan     Meeting Website

Information about the meeting and submitted papers and reports is available on the meeting’s website.

The following topics were discussed:

  • Role of Business Registers
  • Administrative Data/Agencies/Units
  • Quality and Coverage
  • Technology
  • Business Demography and Data Products from the Business Registers
  • Globalisation and Profiling
  • Follow-up of the Guidelines on Statistical Business Registers

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24th Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Hosted and organized by Statistics Austria

15-18 September 2014    Vienna, Austria     Meeting Website

Information about the meeting and submitted papers and reports is available on the meeting’s website.

The following countries and organizations participated in the meeting:

Albania, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malaysia, TFYR of Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States of America, Zambia, African Union Commission, European Central Bank, Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

The following topics were discussed:

  • Statistical Units
  • European/Worldwide Common Identification Number
  • Maintenance methods and policy
  • Managing response burden
  • Management relationships with administrative registers holders
  • Dissemination of register’s data
  • Improvement of the data quality as the main task of the holders of the business registers
  • Backbone role of the Business Register
  • Development and re-engineering of Business Registers
  • Quality of Business Registers
  • International Guidelines for Business Registers (work of the Task Force on SBR)

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23rd Meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Hosted and organized by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the U.S. Census Bureau (CB)

17-21 September 2012    Washington, DC     Meeting Website

Information about the meeting and submitted papers and reports is available on the meeting’s website.

The following countries and organizations participated in the meeting:

Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom, United States of America, Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United nations Statistical Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

The following topics were discussed:

  • Quality, consistency and dissemination of Business Register data
  • Business register profiling of multinational enterprises
  • Metadata and Business Registers
  • Technology innovation and Business Registers
  • Business Registers as sampling frames
  • International guidelines for Business Registers
  • Business Registers and business statistics in emerging and developing countries

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