Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic
Organizational structure of the national economy - methodology | Contents |
| Data on the organizational structure of the national economy are compiled from information kept in the Business Register (BR). The Business Register is established and administered by the Czech Statistical Office under Act No. 89/1995 Coll., on the State Statistical Service. It keeps records of businesses—legal persons and natural persons—that enjoy the status of entrepreneur. A business that is economically active according to statistical surveys or administrative sources is considered to be a statistical enterprise-type unit (see Regulations No. 696/1993 and 2 186/1993). The Register is updated monthly using data from company registers, trades licensing offices and statistical sources and is primarily used for designing and implementing statistical surveys. Business companies and partnerships include general commercial partnerships, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, partnerships limited by share (before 1993) and joint-stock companies. Cooperatives also include cooperative enterprises. Natural persons include private entrepreneurs who are in business in compliance with the Trades Licensing Act, self-employed farmers, agricultural entrepreneurs – natural persons since 1 May 2004, and natural persons carrying out other business activities governed by special regulations. Private entrepreneurs in total include self-employed persons running their businesses under the Trades Licensing Act, self-employed farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs – natural persons since 1 May 2004. Private entrepreneurs in business under the Trades Licensing Act include natural persons having business permits under Act No. 105/1990 Coll., on the Private Enterprise of Citizens (before 1992) or natural persons with business licences (from 1992). Private entrepreneurs in business under regulations other than the Trades Licensing Act include self-employed farmers, agricultural entrepreneurs – natural persons since 1 May 2004, members of professional chambers and other natural persons whose business activities are regulated by separate regulations. Associations of natural persons and associations of legal persons include civic associations and their legally registered organizational components; political parties and movements and their legally registered organizational components; enterprises or economic establishments belonging to these associations or political parties (before 1993); churches and religious societies; professional associations; chambers and interest associations of legal persons. The reason underlying the considerable decrease in the number of units in the year 1994 is the completed re-registration of private entrepreneurs in compliance with the Trades Licensing Act. * * * Other data on the organizational structure of the national economy are given in the following CZSO publications brought out according to the CZSO Catalogue of Publications 2005 (group 1 - COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION, subgroup 14 - Comprehensive Publications):
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