Definition: Satellite register

Category: Business registers

One way of using administrative data in practice is to organise these data into specific registers linked to the statistical business register. If these registers meet certain criteria, they can be referred to as "satellite registers". Satellite registers are therefore defined as registers that are available to the national statistical system, contain information about businesses, and fulfil the following conditions:

- They are not an integral part of the statistical business register as referred to in the business registers Regulation, but are capable of being linked to it.
- They are more limited in scope than the statistical business register, e.g. in terms of NACE, but within that scope they may have more extensive coverage of units and/or variables.
- They contain one or more variables that are not found in the statistical business register. Such variables are generally capable of being used for stratification purposes. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-32-10-216-EN-C-EN.pdf