Due to the incumbing GDPR start date, and the high number of natural persons that PATSTAT includes, it is a non trivial question whether this new ediction has a reduced number of addresses for person_ids in TLS206.
I made some comparison vs 2017b version and apparently changes are minimal; below a table with the ratio of missing address and missing country, between 2017b and 2018a.
The full file can be downloaded from
here.
|
comparison
|
receiving
office
|
no
addr
|
no
cy
|
AM
|
1
|
1
|
AP
|
0.999897
|
1
|
AR
|
0.98578
|
1.000087
|
AT
|
0.999115
|
0.999986
|
AU
|
1.000121
|
1
|
BA
|
1
|
1
|
BE
|
0.997123
|
0.996925
|
BG
|
0.999715
|
0.998334
|
BR
|
0.999992
|
1.000001
|
BY
|
1
|
1
|
CA
|
0.985612
|
1
|
CH
|
0.999506
|
0.998478
|
CL
|
0.879132
|
0.937244
|
CN
|
1.018181
|
1
|
CO
|
1
|
1
|
CR
|
0.926902
|
1.000045
|
CS
|
1.00001
|
1
|
CU
|
0.982067
|
1.026533
|
CY
|
0.983142
|
1.000003
|
CZ
|
0.988476
|
1
|
DD
|
1.000011
|
1.000001
|
DE
|
0.99377
|
1
|
DK
|
0.985258
|
0.984897
|
DO
|
0.970156
|
1.000007
|
DZ
|
1
|
1
|
EA
|
1.420315
|
1.000002
|
EC
|
1
|
1
|
EE
|
0.996433
|
1.074769
|
EG
|
1
|
1
|
EM
|
1
|
1
|
EP
|
0.98777
|
1.325289
|
ES
|
1.012263
|
1
|
FI
|
0.996808
|
1.004037
|
FR
|
0.996585
|
1
|
GA
|
1
|
1
|
GB
|
0.998379
|
1.000232
|
GC
|
1
|
1
|
GE
|
1.019985
|
1.000007
|
GR
|
0.998001
|
0.999271
|
GT
|
1.009547
|
1.000005
|
HK
|
1.001682
|
1
|
HN
|
1
|
1
|
HR
|
0.949633
|
0.948773
|
HU
|
0.97796
|
1.000315
|
ID
|
1
|
1
|
IE
|
0.999699
|
0.999191
|
IL
|
1.000888
|
0.998899
|
IN
|
0.999968
|
1.000006
|
IS
|
0.99893
|
0.997454
|
IT
|
1.000013
|
1
|
JO
|
1
|
1
|
JP
|
1.000014
|
1
|
KE
|
1
|
1
|
KG
|
1
|
1
|
KR
|
1.069759
|
1
|
KZ
|
1
|
1
|
LT
|
0.862678
|
1.000022
|
LU
|
1.094461
|
1.000001
|
LV
|
1
|
1
|
MA
|
1.007003
|
1.000003
|
MC
|
0.999452
|
1.000001
|
MD
|
0.981279
|
1.000003
|
ME
|
1
|
1
|
MN
|
1
|
1
|
MO
|
1
|
1
|
MT
|
0.951049
|
1.00009
|
MW
|
1
|
1
|
MX
|
1.019108
|
1
|
MY
|
0.900944
|
1.000002
|
NI
|
1
|
1
|
NL
|
0.995279
|
0.995683
|
NO
|
0.995618
|
1
|
NZ
|
1.000104
|
1.000002
|
OA
|
0.999788
|
1
|
PA
|
1
|
1
|
PE
|
0.969967
|
1.000002
|
PH
|
0.964729
|
1.01545
|
PL
|
0.963278
|
1.00499
|
PT
|
0.971913
|
1
|
RO
|
0.994103
|
0.990226
|
RS
|
0.908287
|
1.000014
|
RU
|
0.971084
|
1.001344
|
SA
|
1.126561
|
1.000011
|
SE
|
1.000564
|
1
|
SG
|
0.960119
|
0.959793
|
SI
|
0.948312
|
1.000001
|
SK
|
0.990072
|
1
|
SM
|
1
|
1
|
SU
|
0.996975
|
1
|
SV
|
0.972366
|
1.000019
|
TH
|
1
|
1
|
TJ
|
1
|
1
|
TN
|
0.67446
|
0.67446
|
TR
|
1.000336
|
1
|
TT
|
1
|
1
|
TW
|
0.951257
|
1
|
UA
|
0.997054
|
1
|
US
|
0.981089
|
0.981932
|
UY
|
0.963563
|
1.000003
|
UZ
|
1
|
1
|
VN
|
1
|
1
|
WO
|
0.970849
|
1.002561
|
YU
|
0.999976
|
1
|
ZA
|
0.986705
|
1.000029
|
ZM
|
1
|
1
|
ZW
|
1
|
1
|