Business register

Legal basis 
Statistical Business Register (SBR) is conducted on the basis of Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System of Montenegro (Official Gazette of Montenegro 18/12).

METHODOLOGICAL BASES

Purpose
SBR is a reliable data source on population and demography of business entities. It serves as a sample frame for all surveys in the business statistics under the national statistical system, it provides the database from which address data are taken for sending questionnaires within statistical surveys, etc. Such a register is considered to be a system which changes the data from administrative sources in the data appropriate for statistical use.

Coverage 
SBR covers all active business entities in Montenegro.

Data sources
Data sources for updating the SBR are the following: questionnaire (under the section Questionnaires), and administrative data sources (Tax Administration, Central Register of Business Entities, etc.).

Obligation to protect individual data
Individual data on natural or legal persons are confidential and represent the official secret pursuant to Article 56 of Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System of Montenegro (Official Gazette of Montenegro 18/12).

For more details on published data, methodology, and releases please see the sections below.
  

Data Methodology Releases Publications

 

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