1. Information from administrative Data for Business Register
Workshop on
“THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A MORE EFFICIENT WAY OF COLLECTING DATA”
Luxembourg, 21 October 2008
Anke Rink, Federal Statistical Office of Germany

2. Outline
Short term administrative data for improving quality of the business register
New source: Electronic Trade Register (EHUG)

3. 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, for example monthly

4. Advantage of short term data:
More up-to-date information
Information on seasonal changes

5. 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

6. Electronic trade register (EHUG)
The electronic trade register contains all units of the trade register.
Recently, the trade register was only stored on paper.
HR nicht neu
Bisher Zettelkasten in den Amtsgerichten (Einzelkaufleute, Kapitalgesellschaften, Personengesellschaften)
Jetzt elektronisch verfügbar

7. For which purpose can we use EHUG?
We can update
trade number
address data
Legal form
Starting date of business activity

8. matching by trade number
EHUG BR
Integration of data
EHUG → BR
matching by trade number
clear match
1 : 1
ambigous matched
1 : n
no match
1 : 0
resolving
updating of the characteristics:
trade number
legal unit
address
matching by address
matched
not matched
new BR units

9. Thank you for your attention!
Anke Rink
Federal statistical office of Germany
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