Business statistics – economy wide statistics on the activities of enterprises, covers work on economic statistics across different sectors (as opposed to 2.4 that deals with specific individual sectors), deals with topics like statistics on economic activities of enterprises, business demography, business investment, business services, demand for services, industrial performance, enterprises by size class, industrial production, commodities, structure of sales and services, outputs of the service industries, non-profit institutions.
Excludes:
– business tendency surveys (2.1) – international trade (2.6) – prices (2.7) – labour cost (2.8) – science and technology (2.9) – ICT (3.3.3) – activities of foreign affiliates and multinational companies (3.3.4)
Reference: Classification of Statistical Activities (CSA rev. 1 - October 2009)