Hampshire Facts and Figures

Business Data



Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR)

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.

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.


2009 BRES Employees estimate Full-time employees estimate Part-time employees estimate Employment estimate
Hampshire County Council 542,200 371,200 171,000 578,800
North Hampshire* 158,300 115,800 42,500 167,800
Central Hampshire New Forest* 220,400 146,400 74,100 237,200
South Hampshire* 370,000 247,500 122,500 389,600
Basingstoke and Deane 80,800 59,500 21,300 85,500
East Hampshire 42,900 26,400 16,500 46,800
Eastleigh 59,300 40,900 18,400 62,900
Fareham 46,600 30,800 15,800 49,600
Gosport 19,400 12,600 6,800 20,600
Hart 32,700 22,800 9,900 35,300
Havant 38,100 24,700 13,400 40,800
New Forest 64,500 42,000 22,600 69,800
Rushmoor 44,800 33,500 11,300 47,000
Test Valley 46,700 33,200 13,500 50,200
Winchester 66,300 44,800 21,500 70,300
Portsmouth 101,000 66,700 34,300 105,300
Southampton 105,600 71,800 33,800 110,400
Hampshire Economic Area 748,800 509,600 239,100 794,500
South East 3,652,600 2,482,200 1,170,400 3,913,400
Great Britain 26,206,100 17,794,900 8,411,200 27,970,900

Source: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2009

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. Finally, there is the new business registrations indicator, which measures the business start-up rate for each local area, using the proportion of business registrations per 10,000 resident adult population (age 16+).

 

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.

Previous versions -