Introducing the new business demography statistics

Karen Grierson and Andrew Allen
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Karen Grierson: Department for Business,Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
Andrew Allen: Office for National Statistics

Economic & Labour Market Review, 2008, vol. 2, issue 10, 53-55

Abstract: Introducing the new business demography statisticsA new National Statistics series waspublished on 28 November 2008 bythe Offi ce for National Statistics (ONS),providing data on business births,deaths and survival rates, called BusinessDemography: Enterprise Births andDeaths. The Department for Business,Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)also published its series Business start upsand closures: VAT registrations andde-registrations in 2007 on the sameday. The year 2008 is the final update tothe BERR series; from 2009, users will bedirected to the new, more comprehensive,ONS statistics for information on businessbirths, deaths and survival rates. Thisarticle explains the key methodologicaldifferences between the new series andthe existing BERR National Statistic.

Date: 2008
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