INTERNATIONAL ROUNDTABLE ON BUSINESS SURVEY FRAMES

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 27 – 31 OCTOBER 2025

Final Presentations – 26 September 2025

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 addresses 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 biennial 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.

KEY DATES

Abstract submission – 27 June 2025 (Final date extension to 08 August 2025)

Notification of acceptance – 25 July 2025 (Date extended to 15 August 2025)

Presentation (draft) – 22 August 2025

Final versions of presentations – 26 September 2025

Registration deadline – 29 August 2025