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UK Business: Activity, Size and Location 2011
05-Oct-2011This summary contains the latest estimates of the number of businesses as at March 2011.
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UK Business: Activity, Size and Location 2010 - Summary
27-Sep-2010This publication is compiled from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) which contains information on VAT traders and PAYE employers in a statistical register.
Latest Summaries
Latest Publications
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Business Demography, 2011
13-Dec-2012This statistical bulletin contains headline figures and commentary from the Business Demography 2011 publication.
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Pre-release Access List: Business Demography, 2011 (Pdf 31Kb)
13-Dec-2012Pre-release access list for the 2011 Business Demography, 2011 release
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Industrial Specialisation in Local Areas
08-Nov-2012This article examines regional and local industrial specialisations in Great Britain through use of employee jobs data. A number of measures of industrial specialisation have been calculated to provide a means of measuring the similarity, or otherwise, of industrial structures between areas. In addition, location quotients have been calculated. These allow for a more in depth analysis of local specialisations.
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UK Business: Activity, Size and Location, 2012
03-Oct-2012This statistical bulletin contains headline figures and commentary from the UK Business: Activity, Size and Location 2012 publication. Information provides a numbers of enterprises and local units produced from a snapshot of the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 12 March 2012.
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UK Business Pre-Release Access List, 2012 (Pdf 25Kb)
03-Oct-2012This document lists those persons who have been granted pre-release access to UK Business: Activity, Size and Location 2012 tables.
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The Geographical Concentration of Industries
20-Jul-2012This article looks at the geographical distribution of employment by industry. The aim of this article is to understand in which industries employment is geographically concentrated in a small number of areas and in which industries it is more evenly spread across areas.
Latest Data
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Industrial Specialisation in Local Areas - Full Location Quotient Data (Excel sheet 1649Kb)
08-Nov-2012Calculated Location Quotients for 2011 for regions/countries and local authorities of Great Britain, by industrial sections, divisions and groups.
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Industrial Specialisation in Local Areas - Specialisation Indices (Excel sheet 96Kb)
08-Nov-2012Indices of specialisation comparing the industrial structures of local authorities to that of Great Britain overall. Data is provided using the Krugman Index, Gini Coefficient, Theil Index and Herfindahl-Hirschman index.
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Industrial Specialisation in Local Areas - Specialisation Tool (Excel sheet 1964Kb)
08-Nov-2012Investigate the relative industrial specialisations in any local authority in Great Britain via a tool that summarises calculated Location Quotient data for 2011.
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UK Business: Activity, Size and Location, 2012 (Excel sheet 2563Kb)
03-Oct-2012The data contained in these tables are numbers of enterprises and local units produced from a snapshot of the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 12 March 2012. The publication contains tables on local units and enterprises by geography, industry, legal status and employment size band. Additional tables at enterprise level provide information by age of business and turnover size band.
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Business Demography, 2010 (Excel sheet 1438Kb)
06-Dec-2011The data contained in these tables include numbers of births, deaths and survival of UK enterprises. The active stock of businesses is also shown, so that birth and death rates can be calculated. The tables are by geography and industry.
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UK Business: Activity, Size and Location - 2011 (Excel sheet 2593Kb)
05-Oct-2011The data contained in these tables are numbers of enterprises and local units produced from a snapshot of the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 28 March 2011. The publication contains tables on local units and enterprises by geography, industry, legal status and employment size band. Additional tables at enterprise level provide information by age of business and turnover size band.
