Twentieth International Roundtable on Business Survey Frames - Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers

Conference Agenda

Monday 22 October 

09.00   09.30   Opening and welcome

09.30   10.45   Session 1: Country progress reports (Peter Schmidt, Germany)

10.45   11.15   Coffee break

11.15   13.00   Session 1 continued

13.00   14.00   Lunch break

14.00   15.30   Session 1 continued

15.30   16.00   Coffee break

16.00   17.00   Session 2 : Introduction of new business register tools / systems (Michel Euriat, France)

Tuesday 23 October 

09.00   10.30   Session 2 continued

10.30   11.30   Group photo and coffee break

11.30   12.30   Session 3: Classification systems within business registers (Norbert Rainer, Austria)

12.30   13.30   Lunch break

13.30   14.30   Session 3 continued

14.30   15.00   Coffee break

15.00   16.30   Session 4: Role of the business register in a future statistical system (Andreas Linder, OECD)

Wednesday 24 October 

09.00   10.00   Parallel sessions 5a/b and 5c

5a:       Benchmarking tools for business registers (Søren Andersen, Denmark)

5b:       Business profiling (Harrie van der Ven, Eurostat)

5c:        Entrepreneurship indicators, business demography, SME statistics (Rick Clayton, US BLS)

10.00   10.30   Coffee break

10.30   12.00   Parallel sessions 5a/b and 5c continued

12.00   13.00   Lunch break

Thursday 25 October

09.00   10.00   Conclusions of the parallel sessions by convenors of sessions 5a, 5b, 5c

10.00   11.00   Session 6: Multinational groups (John Perry, UK)

11.00   11.30   Coffee break

11.30   12.30   Session 6 continued

12.30   13.30   Lunch break

13.30   14.30   Session 6 continued

14.30   15.00   Coffee break

15.00   16.00   Session „Future of the Roundtable“

16.00   17.00   Session „Preparation of the next meeting“ und final discussion

20.00               Conference dinner at Restaurant LUMEN, Wiesbaden

Friday 26 October

09.00   12.30   Workshop for developing countries

10.00   12.30   Meeting of the Steering Group

12.30   13.30   Lunch break

13.30   14.30   Workshop for developing countries continued

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