[FI] Business Register

Full name of the series in original language

Yritysrekisteri

Abstract

(All the metadata come from Statistics Finland, for a more detailled description, see here: http://www.stat.fi/tup/yritysrekisteri/index_en.html)

Business Register

Statistics Finland maintains a Register of Enterprises and Establishments and a Register of Public Corporations. The Business Register provide information from the service database formed of the Registerr of Enterprises and Establishments. It covers all enterprises, corporations and self-employed persons that are liable to pay value added tax or have paid employees. The Register of Public Corporations contains all central government agencies, municipalities and joint municipal boards.

The Business Register data include enterprises' addresses, branches of industry, size categories of personnel and turnover, dates of establishments and importer/exporter data. The data can be derived on both enterprise and establishment levels.

The data sources of the Business Register are several administrative records and Statistics Finland's direct inquiries to enterprises.

The following data are available on enterprises and establishments.

ENTERPRISE DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Business ID Establishment code
Name Name
Postal address Location address
Municipality Municipality
Sub-regional unit Sub-regional area of location
Region Region
Telephone and telefax number Telephone and telefax number (for part)
Industry Industry
Personnel Size category of personnel
Size category of personnel Start of operation
Size category of turnover Type of establishment
Start of operation Co-ordinates
Legal form Number of personnel in the municipality
Type of owner
Language
Number of establishments
Importer/exporter

Data collection methods and data sources

The basic data for Statistics Finland's Business Register derive from administrative data sources (the most important being the Tax Administration).

Statistics Finland also conducts constantly direct inquiries to enterprises. The inquiries request information about the enterprise's industry, personnel number, turnover and establishment structure. Inquiries are sent yearly to most multi-establishment enterprises and single-establishment enterprises with over 20 employees. Other enterprises receive inquiries less often on rotation basis. New enterprises are inquired fairly soon after they start operation.

In addition to this, Statistics Finland uses several other sources for finding out information about changes in industry, telephone numbers and location addresses, for example.

Geographic coverage

Finland

Time period

2013 => 2013

Types of available microdata

Consistency type

Access mode

Update date

15/09/2021