London Business Survey, 2014: Secure Access

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The Greater London Authority (GLA) commissioned the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to design and run the London Business Survey (LBS) 2014 on behalf of the Mayor of London, the GLA, the London Enterprise Panel (LEP) and London and Partners. The survey took place in March-April 2014 (pilot stage) and in May-July 2014 (main stage). The aim was to collect evidence to help inform policies for London businesses. The LBS had also been run in 2006. When the GLA approached ONS to run the survey, it had three key requirements:that the survey should be representative of London, specifically of private sector businesses in the main sectors of London’s economythat the survey should cover the topics of interest to those commissioning the survey, including how London is rated as a business location, ease of access to finance for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), employment, skills and training, the economic outlook, international trade and innovationthat it should be possible to analyse the results by enterprise size (comparing SMEs with large firms) and by industry sectorONS selected a sample using the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR), the sampling frame which is used for most official business surveys. The LBS enterprise size bands are:micro enterprises: 0 to 9 employeesother SMEs: 10 to 249 employeeslarge enterprises: 250+ employeesLinking to other business studies These data contain IDBR reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business data to assist their research.

Main Topics:

The survey questions cover the following main topics:profile of the businessworforceeconomic growth and tradefactors affecting the businessbusiness support and facilitiesaccess to financeinnovationGreater London as a business location

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Telephone interview

Postal survey

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DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8276-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=c2f01236665e7b222eec530cde0d7cbda20a93bbb62713504a445933b5b80408
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Creator Office for National Statistics
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2017
Funding Reference London and Partners; London Enterprise Panel; Mayor of London; Greater London Authority
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Language English
Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage United Kingdom