Business may be defined as an enterprising entity of a person, partnership or corporation,organisation etc, engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or service whereas, Business Register (BR) is a list of establishments and enterprises. It serves as a statistical tool for the preparation and coordination of surveys. It is an important source of information for the statistical analysis of the business population and its demography.
At present an up-to-date frame of enterprises at the national level is available only in respect of the units/factories covered under the Annual survey of Industries (ASI). The ASI presently covers the relatively bigger units belonging to manufacturing and repair sub-sectors that are registered under sections 2m(i) and 2m(ii) of the Factories Act 1948 or under the Bidi & Cigar Workers (Condition of Employment) Act. For the other sectors, no such updated and satisfactory frame of bigger units/enterprises exists at present. For planning any survey of such units, like the Survey of Non-Manufacturing Industries (SNMI), it would be desirable to develop a frame of establishments along with certain basic items of information for all sub-sectors such as trade, hotels and restaurants, transport, storage, communication, real estate, legal & business services etc. popularly known as Business Register.
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