Hampshire Facts and Figures

Business Data



Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) - UK Business Activity

The Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) is a list of UK businesses maintained by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).It provides a sampling frame for surveys of businesses carried out by the ONS and by other government departments. It is also a key data source for analysis of business activity.

The IDBR covers businesses in all parts of the economy, missing some very small businesses operating without VAT or PAYE schemes (self employed and those with low turnover and without employees) and some non-profit organisations, representing nearly 99 per cent of UK economic activity.

The data comes from the UK Business Activity publication, which is a snapshot of the IDBR as at March 28th of each reporting year.

Statistical units

A group of legal units under common ownership is called an enterprise group.An enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units (generally based on VAT or PAYE) which has a certain degree of autonomy within an enterprise group.An individual site (for example factory or shop) in an enterprise is called a local unit.

Observation unit

Reporting units hold the mailing address to which the survey forms are sent. The form can cover the enterprise as a whole, or parts of the enterprise identified by lists of local units.

Links

ONS have produced an IDBR page on thier website which includes A brief guide to IDBR

IDBR for Local Authorities can be downloaded from the ONS Neighbourhood Statistics Analysis webpage and selecting IDBR analysis to support Local Authorities. Please note that the data are based on the 2007 Standard Industry Classification system, which is not compatible to SIC 2003.

 

Business Register and Employment Survey

The Business Register and Emloyment Survey (BRES) has replaced and integrated two existing ONS business surveys, the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) and Business Register Survey (BRS) and is a sample survey of approximately 80,000 businesses.
The BRES currently provides information on four measures of employment status, as shown in the Table. BRES also provides Industry data using the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2007) to define industry sectors. The following spreadsheet provides data by ONS broad industry sectors and sections.


2011 BRES Employees estimate Full-time employees estimate Part-time employees estimate Employment estimate
Hampshire County Council 554,000 379,400 174,600 589,800
North Hampshire* 159,100 114,300 44,800 168,300
Central Hampshire New Forest* 230,000 154,400 75,600 246,700
South Hampshire* 373,100 248,400 124,700 391,600
Basingstoke and Deane 80,700 58,400 22,300 85,200
East Hampshire 45,700 31,100 14,600 49,300
Eastleigh 59,800 41,400 18,500 63,200
Fareham 46,700 31,200 15,500 49,500
Gosport 19,800 13,100 6,700 20,900
Hart 34,100 23,000 11,100 36,700
Havant 38,700 25,100 13,600 41,200
New Forest 67,000 43,200 23,800 72,100
Rushmoor 44,400 32,900 11,400 46,400
Test Valley 48,200 34,000 14,200 51,900
Winchester 69,100 46,100 23,000 73,500
Portsmouth 100,900 67,100 33,700 104,800
Southampton 107,300 70,600 36,700 111,900
Hampshire Economic Area 762,200 517,100 245,100 806,600
Enterprise M3 LEP 738,300 508,300 229,900 788,900
Solent LEP 650,900 432,100 218,800 689,400
South East 3,701,300 2,494,800 1,206,500 3,958,600
Great Britain 26,085,700 17,670,200 8,415,600 27,811,900

Source: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2011

Notes:

1. These figures exclude farm agriculture (SIC subclass 01000).
2. All figures rounded to the nearest 100
3. BRES is a sampled survey estimating the number of employees/employment, and as such is indicative rather than actual.
4. * North Hampshire = Basingstoke and Deane, Hart and Rushmoor; Central Hampshire New Forest = East Hampshire, New Forest, Test Valley and Winchester; South Hampshire = Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, Portsmouth and Southampton.

Key

Employees: An employee is anyone aged 16 years or over that an organisation directly pays from its payroll(s), in return for carrying outa full-time or part-time job or being on a training scheme. It excludes voluntary workers, self-employed, working owners who are not paid via PAYE.
Full-time employees: those working more than 30 hours per week.
Part-time employees: those working 30 hours or less per week.
Employment = employees + working proprietors. Working Proprietors are sole traders, sole proprietors, partners and directors. This does not apply to registered charities.

Further information

Subject to BRES disclosure protocol it is possible to extract data down to Lower layer Super Output Areas and 5-digit Industry divisions. However, at this level of detail the reliability of the data becomes an issue and will most likely be confidential. As a rule of thumb any BRES data below local authority district level should be used with extreme care. If you require further advice or data please contact the Economy TeamFor High level UK BRES estimates  published on the ONS website please visit the ONS BRES webpage
 

Business Demography

Business Demography- Age of Business

Office for National Statistics Business Demography Active Enterprises, Births and Deaths data replaces the former BERR VAT Registration data for 2007 onwards. The key difference between the BERR statistics and the new ONS Business Demography publication is the inclusion of PAYE registered units thereby providing a more comprehensive view of business start-up activity. A more detailed description can be found on the Notes tab on the Business Demography file.

The data also includes age of business using four age bands from less than 2yrs old to 10 or more years. Earlier data can be accessed from Neighbourhood Statistics.

 

Major employers

Hampshire Major Employers

The Hampshire Economic Development Office produced revised 2009 figures for the top 100 companies based on sales, and lists of major public and private sector employers in Hampshire. A more comprehensive database of Hampshire area business is available (for a charge) from Hampshire County Council’s Economic Development Office. For further details contact Hampshire County Council Economic Development Office.

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