The meeting was held from 8 to 11 November 2016 in Tokyo, Japan, hosted by the Statistics Bureau of Japan.

The next meeting will be hosted by Federal Statistical Office of Switzerland in 2018. The details of the meeting such as the venue and dates will be informed by FSO in due course.

Purpose of the Wiesbaden Group

The Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers is an international expert group under the umbrella of the UN Statistical Commission engaged in further development of business registers, survey frames and associated topics. The group provides a forum for the exchange of views and experiences and the conduct of joint work related to the development, maintenance and use of business registers. The group's work supports a more integrated approach to structural economic statistics and addresses new, globalization-related analytical needs. It is engaged with contemporary and emerging issues in the development and use of business registers. In particular, the Wiesbaden Group tackles forward-looking matters and identifies new challenges concerning business registers in the wider sense. The group analyses the changing nature and roles of the business register as the backbone of business statistics and a source of statistical data in its own right.

The Wiesbaden Group is an informal body and participation is voluntary. Participants are, however, required to contribute to the programme of the biannual meetings of the group. Although its mandate does not emanate from a formal body, the Wiesbaden Group reports to the UN Statistical Commission on its activities and recommendations of practices and standards.

For further information about the group, please visit Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers - United Nations Statistics Division .

Key Dates

• Country progress reports deadline: 30 April 2016 Country progress report template (Excel:36KB)
• Abstracts deadline: 30 June 2016 Abstract template (PDF:105KB)
• Registration deadline: 31 August 2016
• Session papers and power point presentations deadline: 9 September 2016 Paper template (PDF:95KB)

Contact

For further information about the 25th meeting, please send email to wiesbaden2016@soumu.go.jp